3J3 Meteorology. Arts. 



METEOROLOGV. 



Tlie fevere cold that prevailed during the courfe of the late 

 winter, induced the celebrated aftronomer Lalande to pub- 

 Hm, in one of the French Journals, the following lift of 

 years which were remarkable for the intenfenefs of the froft, 

 viz. 763, 801, 1067, 1 210, 1272, 1305, 1354, 1358, 

 1361, 1364, 1420, 1460, 1480, 1493, 1507, 1522, 1608, 

 1638, 1655, 1657, 1663, 1670, 1677, 1699, 1740, 1776, 

 1788. 



ENGRAVING. 



Lagarde, a bookfeller at Berlin, has begun an undertaking, 

 never perhaps before attempted, at leaft in Germany. He 

 means to publifli a Greek edition of Homer, entirely printed 

 from copper-plates. Profeflbr Wolf, at Halle, is to fupply 

 the text, and the work will be executed with the utmoft 

 care poffible. Jack is to engrave the plates, from the beft 

 fpecimens of Greek writing. 



DEATHS. 



On the 1 6th of December laft, at Halle, in the 70th year 

 of his age, John Reinhold Forller, LL.D. profeffor of natural 

 hiftory in that univerfity, member of the academy of feiences 

 at Berlin, and of other learned ibcieties. He was born at 

 Dirlchau, in Weft Prufiia, in the month of October 1729, 

 and was formerly a Proteftant clergyman at Dantzig, from 

 which he went to Rufiia, and thence to England, where he 

 purfuedhis favourite ftudy, Natural Hiftory. From 1772 to 

 1775 ne accompanied Capt. Cook in his voyage round the 

 world. On his return he refided at London, till he was at 

 length invited to Halle, where, for 18 years, he was a mem- 

 ber of the philofophical and medical faculties. Among his 

 works are : An Introduclion to Mineralogy, or, An accurate 

 CI a/Jif cation of FoJJils and Minerals, <%?<;. London, 1768, 8vo. 

 A 'Catalogue of the Animals of North America, with jhort 

 Directions for coll 'cding, pre fcrving, and tranjporting all Kind 

 of Natural Curiojities, London, 1771, 8vo. Obferi* ations made 

 during a Voyage round the World, on Pbyjical Geography, 



