Io6 Learned Societies. 



A paper containing meteorological obfervations made at 

 Conftantinople, and fome curious information refpecling 

 the plague which fo often caufes dreadful devaftation in the 

 Eaftern countries. The remarks brought forward on this 

 fubject go to eftablifli the fact, that the infection is only 

 caught by contact either of a difeafed perfon, or of articles 

 that have been in contact with the infected, 



A paper on the natural hiftory of the elephant, by John 

 Corfe, Efq. author of the article on the fame fubject given 

 in a preceding part of the prefent number of our work. 

 This paper, which contains a great variety of curious infor- 

 mation, excited much attention. His oblervations are the 

 refult of many years refidence in India. By them it appears 

 that the accounts of the fagacity, modefty and fize of the 

 elephant have been greatly exaggerated by natural hiftorians. 

 The female, when brought forth, is about 35 inches high; 

 when full grown, from 7 to 8 feet. A full grown male is 8 

 or 9 feet high, meafured at the moulder as the height of a 

 horfe is taken. 



A paper on the decompohtion of the boracic acid, by 

 M. Crell. 



ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



On Thurfday the 14th of Feburary, an Eolopile of great 

 antiquity, made of brafs, and which had been dug up in 

 making the BaGngftock canal, was prefentcd to this Socieiy 

 by Mr, Fry the letter-founder. The form is lingular: 

 inftead of being globular with a bent tube, it is in the form 

 of a grotefque human figure. The blaft comes from its 

 mouth. The only thing fimilar we have ever met with in 

 this country is the eolopile called Jack of Hilton, mentioned 

 in Plott's Hiftory of Staffordfhire, 



M1SCEL, 



