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368 Heivetie Society. 
juminous track was neither as brilliant nor as extended as. 
the true tail opposite the sun. It was observed only on the 
22d, 25th, and 27th of January.— Rev. Encyc. Mai 1824, 
4. Baue.— Rural School.—A number of philanthropists of 
of our town have united in founding an agricultural schoo 
poor boys. The number of pupils will be from 12 to 20, and 
_the direction of them will be confided toa pupil of the re- 
“spectable Vehrli of Hofwyl. This school will form the 
forty of the kind established in Switzerland. The three 
others are Hofwyl, canton of Bern; chee s canton of Zu- 
—Idem 
rich ; Carra, canton of Geneva. 
5. Eleetrictty.—M. Grothus, it is said, has observed that 
when water is rapidly congealed i ina Leyden bottle, the out- 
side coating of which is not insulated, it acquires a feeble 
charge 5 3 the inside becomes positive, and the outside nega- 
tive. In melting the ice rapidly, the effect is reversed ; the 
outside is then positively, and the inside negatively electri- 
fied.—.Annals de Chimie, Sep. 1824, 
6. A Discourse, delivered at the opening of the session 
: = AAC of the Helvetic Society of Natural Sciences, held 
at Schaffhausen the 26th, 27th, and 28th of July. 
~ Lieut. Col. Fisuer, President of the Society for the cur- 
rent year. 
ate 0, ahs Nec aranearum sane textus ideo melior quia ex se fila gig- 
nunt, nec noster vilior quia ex pice libamus ut apes, 
Jus teegh Monit Polit. L. 1. Cap. 1. 
Very pean Faenps ann Correacurs ! 
are oe the tenth year, dating from the 
aiciacatlle epoch, in which a citizen of Geneva, a city 
whose right it seems to Nite been for ages to produce dis- 
tinguished men, conceived the happy idea of founding an 
Helvetic Society, devoted to the culture of the natural sci- 
ences, and invited to his picturesque hermitage of Mornex 
u Mount Saline, the few friends of nature which formed 
nucleus of this association. Whate ver might have been 
thes views and hopes of this learned and zealous philanthro- 
