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greater height, attracting the electricity of the air and of the 

 clouds, which emitted splendid flashes. 



On the 4th, the eruption was less violent. 



On the 5th, Vesuvius began to throw out ashes, which, we 

 are assured, announces the conclusion of the eruption. 



Teution. 



XIIL 

 SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



Galvanic Society of France. 



The Electro- ^LJ'N the 6th ©f Febuary last, Messrs. Nauche and Tourlet 

 tth^m^y, ""^ ^^"^ ^" account of the Transactions of the Society in the years 

 xii and xiii. The electro-micrometer of Veau de Launay was 

 described by Marechaux as an instrument proper for shewing 

 the smallest perceptible quantifies of electricity and of galvan- 

 ism, and capable of being applied to many useful atmospheri- 

 cal researches. 

 --IS an old in* This electrometer does not differ from one which I con- 

 structed many years ago, and of which I published an account 

 in the quarto series of this Journal, in the number for September 

 1797» It consists in the application of two metallic peices, 

 which, by means of a screw, are made to approach on each 

 side of the points of the gold leaf in Bennett's electrometer. 

 The Professor D. E. published his instrument in the Journal 

 de Physique for July 1804. When we consider the slowness 

 and difficulty of communications, and the simplicity of the 

 contrivance, there will be no ground for detracting from the 

 merits of the latter inventor. 



CrartioJogic System of Gall. 



Craniology. Mr. Klauer, a sculptor of Weimar, has executed busts of 



Schiller and Weiland, in plaster. The mask of Schiller was 



modelled on his face after death, by Professor Ingram. 



Weiland, during the stay of Dr. Gall tit Weimar, had the 



com- 



