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1821.1 Literary and Philosophical Intelligence . 
Mr. John FranksNewton lias in the 
press a classical work on the Banish¬ 
ment of Ovid,by the Emperor Augustus, 
under the title of 44 the Three Enig¬ 
mas. 1 '’ 
Various lives of Napoleon are an¬ 
nounced, hut as tlieir object is either 
to profit by public sympathy, or to 
pander to the prejudices of power, it is 
to he hoped that the public will re¬ 
serve themselves for his own Memoirs* 
against the transmission of which, and 
tiie free publication, no objection can 
now be decently opposed. 
A Member of the late Salter’s Hall 
Congregation lias in the press, a work 
addressed to the Old Members of that 
Society, in which some of the Errors 
of the Rev. Dr. Collyer are stated and 
corrected. 
Sir George Nay lor, by command 
of tlie King, is preparing an extensive 
work, with engravings, descriptive of 
the late gorgeous ceremony of the co¬ 
ronation. 
A society for investigating the natu¬ 
ral and civil history, geography, &c. of 
Ceylon, was established under the 
patronage of the I-Ion. the Lieutenant 
Governor, at a meeting held at the 
King’s House in Columbo, on the 11th 
of last December. The objects to which 
the attention of the society seem prin¬ 
cipally to he directed are: — 44 The 
geography, geology, and mineralogy of 
Ceylon. The society at its first meet¬ 
ing had fifty-one members, all emulous 
for the success of the institution. The 
Hon. Major-General Sir E. Barnes, the 
patron, was elected President. The 
Honourable Sir Hardmge Gifford ; the 
Hon. Sir Richard Ottley ; the Hon. R. 
Boyd, Esq.; the Hon. J. W. Carring¬ 
ton, Esq.; the Hon. and venerable Dr. 
Twisleton and Dr. Farrell were elected 
vice-presidents. The general commit¬ 
tee divides itself into three sub-com¬ 
mittees of five members each ; viz. 1st, 
of natural history and agriculture; 
2dly, of geology, mineralogy, and geo¬ 
graphy ; 3dly,ofcivil history, languages, 
and antiquities. 
The number of admissions to the 
British Museum, from 27th March, 1820 
to 25th March, 1821, was 62,543. 
The celebrated library of Count 
Melzi has lately been bought at Milan 
by Payne and Foss, by whom it has 
been re-sold to Frank Hall Stan dish, 
Esq. in an entiro state, and is coming 
to this country. This magnificent col¬ 
lection contains, among many other 
rarities of the 15th century- the Liv'd 
Historia Spine* 1470, printed upon vel¬ 
lum, With capitals most tastefully illu¬ 
minated ; the only perfect copy known; 
the Lucre tins , Brescia Fcrrandi . 
A writer on the subject of vaccinating 
dogs, for the prevention of the distem¬ 
per, states, that James Bearden, Esq. 
of the Orchard, Rochdale, was unable 
for several years to rear a single dog ; 
whether he kept them at home, or sent 
them out to quarters, they all died of 
the distemper; but about four or five 
years ago he began to have them vac¬ 
cinated, and since that time not one 
dog has suffered from it. The opera¬ 
tion has been performed when the dogs 
were from six weeks to two months 
old, and the matter has always been 
inserted on the inner surface of the ear, 
in a part as free from hair as possible. 
Little more than half a century ago, 
there were but three shops in London 
for the sale of music and musical in¬ 
struments, viz. two in the Strand, and 
one in St. Paul’s Church-yard, and at 
the present time the number exceeds 
two hundred. 
The quarries of marble whence the 
blocks are taken for the construction 
of the Plymouth break-wafer are si¬ 
tuated at Oreston, on the eastern shore 
of Cutwater. They consist of one vast 
mass of compact close-grained marble; 
seams of clay, however, are interposed 
through the rock, in which there are 
also large cavities, some empty, and 
others partially filled with clay. In 
one of these caverns in the solid rock, 
fifteen feet wide, forty-five feet long, 
and twelve feet deep, nearly filled with 
compact clay, were found imbedded 
fossil bones belonging to the rhinoce¬ 
ros, and portions of the skeletons of 
three different animals, all of them in 
the most perfect state of preservation. 
The part of the cavity in which these 
bones were found was seventy feet be¬ 
low the surface of the solid rock, sixty 
feet horizontally from the edge of the 
cliff, and one hundred and sixty feet 
from the original edge by the side of the 
Cafwater. Every side of the cave was 
solid rock : the inside had no incrusta¬ 
tion of stalactite, nor was there any ex¬ 
ternal communication through the rock 
in which it was imbedded, nor any ap¬ 
pearance of an opening from above, 
being inclosed by infiltration. 
A short time since, as David Virtue, 
mason, at Audhterfool, a village four 
miles from Kirkaldy, in Scotland, was 
dressing a barley mill-stone from a 
large block, after cutting away a part, 
he 
