354 Deaths. 



matical chair of that city in 1760, and in 1762 was appointed 

 profeffor of pbilofophy. He was a member of molt of the 

 learned foci cties in Europe, and author of many works; among 

 which are, Travels through the Alps, publilhed firft in quarto, 

 and afterwards in oclavo ; Effays on Hygrometry y Ohferva- 

 tions on the Epidermis of Lea-vex and Petals, &c. For a lift of 

 his fmaller treatifes, fee Scnebier's Literary Hi/lory of 

 Geneva, vol. III. — M. de Sauffure enriched natural philo- 

 fophy alfo with two valuable inftruments, a portable hygro- 

 meter and electrometer. He had in his poifeffion a mod. 

 beautiful cabinet of natural hiftory ; and an herbal, remark- 

 able not only for the number of plants it contained, but alfo 

 for their fine ftate of prefervation. 



On the 5th of February, at Bologna, in the 55th year of 

 bis age, the celebrated Galvani, from whom Galvanifm, 

 which has made fo much noife in the philofophical world, 

 took its name. It is faid that a fit of illncfs, by which his 

 wife was attacked, led him to the difcovery of his theory re- 

 fpe&ing metallic irritation. The phyfician having pre- 

 ferred for his wife foup made of boiled frogs, Galvani, who 

 was an afTectionale hufband, prepared them himfelf; an<J 

 having accidentally touched a frog after he had fkinned it, 

 he obferved in it an involuntary motion, which induced him 

 to make feme experiments that conducted him to the dif- 

 covery. 



At Pavia, on the 1 th of. February, of an inflammation 

 in the urethra, LazaruS Spallanzani, of Picggio, the cele- 

 brated natural hiflorian. 



On the 1 8th of Februarv, at Leipzic, John Hedwig, pro- 

 fefTor of botany, in the 68th year of his age. His refearche3 

 refpe&ing the eryptogamia clafs of plants will fecure him 

 immortal fame. His death will be a great lofs to the Gene- 

 ral Literary Journal of Jena, to which he was a contributor, 

 and which was indebted to him for many interefling com- 

 munications. 



On the 24th of February, at Gottingen, George Chrifto- 



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