Deaths* 335 



pher Lichtenberg, Efcj. counfcllor of .ftate to his Britannic, 

 majeity, and public profeflbr of philofophv in that univer- 

 fity. He was born at Ober-Ramftadt, near Darmftadt. On 

 the 19th of February he read a public le£ture, next day he 

 was confined to bed, and on Sunday morning an inflamma- 

 tion of the breaft put a period to his existence. By this 

 event the univerfity of Goftingen loft an excellent teacher, 

 and Germany one of its moft ingenious writers, who, to 

 profound knowledge in the moft fublime fciences, united an 

 unexhauftible fund of original genius. 



Not long ago at Paris, in the 64th year of his age, Charles 

 Borda, an eminent mathematician, and one of the authors 

 of the new French fyftem of weights and meafures. He 

 was a Lieutenant de Valfjau du Rot under the old 5 French 

 government, and with De la Crene and Pingre made a voyage 

 to America, in order to afcertain the utility of certain inftru- 

 ments for determining the latitude and longitude. The ac- 

 count of this voyage was publifhed under his infpe&ion, with 

 the title of Voyage fait par ordre du Roi en 1771 ct 72, en 

 diverfes parties de V Europe et de VAmhiqtie, pour verifier 

 Vutilit'e de plujieurs metbodes et injlrumens fcrvant a deter- 

 miner la latitude et la longitude tant du vaijjeau que des 

 c'tes, ifles et ecueils, &c. par MM. Verdun de la Crene, 

 Le Chev. de Borda, et Pingr', 1778, 3 vol. 410. He was the 

 author alio of Defcription et U/age du Ccrcle de Reflexion, 

 1787, 4to. and of fcvcral phyfical and mathematical me- 

 moirs in different journals. He has been fucceeded in the' 

 Bureau des Longitudes by C. Bougainville. 



On the 7th of this month, at his houfe in Qucen-fquare, 

 Weftminfter, the Rev. Clayton Mordauut Cracherode, A.M. 

 Student of Chrift Church, Oxford, F.R.A.S. and one of the 

 Truftees of the Britifh Mufeum. 



Mr. Cracherode was eminent for his erudition, liberality 

 of fentiment, and amiable maimers. Ilis learning he deco- 

 rated with a fuperior knowledge of the fine ait - ; and he em- 

 ployed a confiderable part of a large revenue in making col- 

 lection* 



