Io8 , Anatomy. 



of Sciences, that this collection fhould be transferred to Ber- 

 lin, and incorporated with his collection. The directory of 

 the academy, in order to promote farther his majefty's views, 

 and to complete the royal cabinet, have added to it'two va- 

 luable collections belonging to the academy, viz. that of 

 Lippert's * cafts, and that of the bracteals, or coin of the mid- 

 dle ages, formed by Rau, and augmented by Mohien f ; fo 

 that the royal cabinet contains at prefent about 5400 en- 

 graved gems, 3000 cafts by Lippert, 16000 antique medals, 

 5000 bracteals, with 5 or 6000 modern medals and crowns. 

 Among the modern feries, the richeft is that of the medals 

 and crowns of Pruffia. 



ANATOMY. 



C. Cuvier, in the courfe of his refearches refpe&ing the 

 anatomy of white-blooded animals, which he intends foon 

 to publifh, has found that the leech will oblige him to 

 change the general denomination. He obferved in that 

 animal red blood, not that which it fucks, and which would 

 be contained in the inteftinal canal, where it is immediately 

 altered, but a real nourifhing fluid contained in the vefiels, 

 and circulating there by means of an alternate movement 

 pf the fyftole and the diaftole. Thefe veflels form four prin- 

 cipal trunks, two of which are lateral, the third dorfal, and 

 the laft ventral. The two former are of an order ■different 

 from that of the two latter ; but the author has not yet been 

 able to determine which are the arterial and which the 



* Philip Daniel Lippert, profeffor of antiquities in the Academy of the 

 Fine Arts at Drcfden. He was born at Meiflen in 1701, and died on the 

 aSth of March 1785. Among his works are Da&yliothcca, or, A Collec- 

 tion of the Engraved Stones of the Ancients, confiding of 200 impreffions 

 from the principal cabinets in Europe, for the ufe of the fine arts and art- 

 lfls. Leipfic, 1767. A Supplement to the Dacvtyliotheca, confuting of 

 ^049 impreflions. Ibid, Edit. 



f John Chirles William Mohfen, member of the college of phyficians, 

 phyfician to his Trufiian Majcfty, and to the fchool of Noble Cadets at 

 JJerlin. Eqit, 



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