IS 14.] Scientific Intelligence. 311 



€tate. The author arranges the substances treated of according to 

 their degree of simplicity. After having spoken of the imponder- 

 able bodies, he treats of oxygen, and of the theory of eombustion. 

 He then passes to the combustible bodies, and describes the com- 

 pounds which they form with each other and with oxygen. These 

 last are divided, according to their properties, into oxides and acids; 

 aud the fluoric and muriatic acids are placed according to the old 

 opinions among bodies containing oxygen. Here the first part of 

 this work stops, which the rapid progress of the science has ren- 

 dered necessary so soon after other good works on the same subject; 

 and we cannot but be anxious to see its speedy termination. 



(7b be continued.) 



Article XVII. 



SCIENTIFIC intelligence; and notices of subjects 



CONNECTED WITH SCIENCE. 



I. Lectures. 

 London Infirmary for diseases in the eye, in Charter- house- 

 square. 



J. B. Fane, M.D Physician. 



\\ I. Travers, Esq. . . . . ... . . ? s 



W. Lawrence, Lsq. F. R. b. 3 * 

 Farther particulars, and the terms on which gentlemen are ad- 

 mitted to see the practice of this infirmary, may be known on ap- 

 plication at the house. 



Dr. Spurzheim will commence his Course of Lectures on the 

 Anatomy and Physiology of the Brain at No. 11, Rathbone- place, 

 Oct. 18. at seven o'clock in the evening. 



II. Mistake in the Biographical Account of Schcele rectified. 

 I stated, on the authority of a gentleman upon whose accuracy I 

 placed the fullest reliance, that Retzius published Scheele's method 

 of obtaining tartaric acid without ever mentioning his name : but I 

 have since looked at the original paper of Retzius, in the Stockholm 

 Transections, and find that my statement was erroneous. Retzius 

 particularly mentions Schcele, and states the facts which he ob- 

 tained from him : so that the opinion entertained for some years, 

 that Retzius was the discoverer of pure tartaric acid, could not have 

 originated from a perusal of this paper. Probably it originated 

 from the mere title of the paper, which was perhaps all that the 

 inal propagators of the story had it in their power to peruse. I 

 consider this statement as nothing more than a piece of bare justice 

 to Retzius, the honesty of whose conduct has been improperly 

 • ailed in question. 



