150 _ Royal Soeiety. 
to pour fourth its latent riches; and in the other, vivifying the 
dormant seeds of genius and virtue, aud redeeming from the 
neglected wastes of human intellect, a new and unexpected ac- 
cession to the common inheritance of mankind, 
*¢ When from such speculations as these we descend to the 
treatise De Jure Belli ef Pacis, the coutrast is mortifying in- 
deed. And yet, so much: better suited were the talents and ac- 
complishments of Grotius to the taste not only of his contem- 
poraries but of their remote descendants, that, while the merits 
of Bacon failed, for a ceritury and a half, to command the ge- 
neral admiration of Europe, Grotius continued, even in our Bri- 
tish universities, the acknowledged oracle of jurisprudence and of 
ethics, till long after the death of Montesquieu. Nor was Bacon 
himself unapprized of the slow growth of his posthumous fame. 
No writer seems ever to have felt more deeply, that he properly 
belonged to a later and more enl.ghtened age ;—a sentiment 
which he has pathetically expressed in that clause of his testa- 
ment, where he ‘‘ bequeaths his name to posterity, after some 
generations shall be past.” 
Mr. Accum has in the press a third edition of his Practical 
Treatise on Gas Light. Exhibiting a summary description of 
the apparatus and machinery best calculated for illuminating 
streets, houses, and manufacteries, with coal-gas, With re- 
marks on the utility, safety, and general nature of this new 
branch of civil economy, The work will be published the Ist 
of March, Lhd Wane 
In the press, A new Work entitled “ The Elements and 
Genius of the French Language, being a natural and rational 
method of teaching a language with sciences deduced from the 
analysis of the human mind,” 
‘© Memoirs of the Ionian Isles, and of their Relations with 
Furopean Turkey; translated from the original Manuscript of 
M. de Vaudoncourt, late General in the Italian service: with a 
very accurate and comprehensive Map.” ‘ 
XXXII], Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
ROYAL SOCIETY. 
Feb. 1. and 8. Ox these evenings the conclusion of Dr. Wilson 
Phillip’s experiments to ascertain the relation between the san~ 
guiferous and nervous systems, and the ganglia, was read. This 
paper, 
