86 Scientific Intelligence. ' (Jan. 
et Arts. ‘The work utider this title will form a continuation of the 
Bibliothéque Britannique, though it will embrace a wider field. 
This new Bibliotheque will contain every thing generally inte- 
resting in the literary and scientific journals of France, England, 
Germany, and Italy, and particularly extracts from original works 
on the sciences, the arts, and literature; and under the head dzdJio- 
graphy, a notice of the principal works which shall appear in 
Europe. The work in consequence will become an universal me- 
dium of periodical communications. 
The central situation of Switzerland is favourable to an under- 
taking of this nature; and Geneva, from its literary establishments, 
and the reputation of its philosophers, is fortunately placed to con- 
stitute the focus of such communications. Its political neutrality, 
at present so well secured, and that which the editors have always 
professed in the most difficult times, is a sufficient security of the 
impartiality which will always characterize the Bibliotheque Uni- 
verselle, 
XI. Notice respecting Six’s Thermometer. 
The thermometer of Six is liable to an accident which, if not 
attended to, may very much impair the accuracy of its indications. 
A small portion of air is liberated from the alcoho! it contains, 
which, getting into the tube, is found sometimes to increase, till it 
occupies as much as 5° in the scale, making the results so much 
too high. This happens annually, at the first approacly of frosty 
weather. The remedy is to bring the instrument to the fire, and 
cause the bubble to pass to and fro in the warm spirit, getting it, if 
possible, into the large tube: by which means it is gradually ab- 
sorbed, and does not soon reappear. 
ArticiE V. 
Scientific Books in hand, or in the Press. 
Mr. Bracy Clark, Veterinary Surgeon, of Giltspur-street, has in the 
Press, intended for speedy publication, a Treatise on the Bots of 
Horses, -and other Domestic Animals, being a reprint of his treatise 
on that subject formerly published in the Linnean Society’s Trans- 
actions, with numerous and interesting Additions. He has introduced 
an account -of a newly discovered race of Flies bred in the living 
bodies of Animals in America. 
Dr. Clanny, of Sunderland, will speedily publish a Treatise on the 
Mineral Waters of Gilsland, in which he will give the Medical Pro- 
perties. and Chemical Analysis of these Waters. 
Dr. Henning, of the Hot Wells, Bristol, author of an Inquiry into 
the Pathology of Scrofula, is preparing for the press a work on Pul- 
monary Consumption, which will be ready for publication early in the 
spring. 
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