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1797+] 
infufed a new fpirit and life into this 
ancient inftitution ; under*his aufpicious 
encouragement, the fecretary was en- 
abled to draw forth and arrange a pro- 
digious mafs of materials, which had 
been forty years in accumulating, and 
to publith fome of the moft interefting. 
The firft volume of thefe memoirs ap- 
peared under the patronage of Leopold, 
in 1791. A fecond was publifhed latt 
year, by PaGant, under the title of 
Atti della Real Societa Economica di Firenze, 
offia di Georgofil:, in 8vo. It comprifes 
the years from 1783 to 1789 inclufive. 
It is faid that a third volume is now in 
the prefs, which is to bring the labours 
of this fociety down tothe prefent year, 
and will comprehend two eulogies, the 
firft on Targione-Toxvetti, and the {e- 
cond, on Monettz; thirteen memoirs, 
among which, two of the chymift Hofer, 
a learned German, refiding in Florence, 
and one of Toxzetti, on the different 
materials requifite for the manufacture 
of paper, &c. are the moft remarkable; 
and a number of extracts. 
The Societa Italiana, of Verona, of 
which the chevalier LARGUA, a diftin- 
guifhed chymift, is the prefident, pub- 
lifhed laft year the feventh volume of its 
Memorie di Mathimaticae Fifa (at Ve- 
rona, by RaMANZINI, in a quarto of 
Str pages, with feven cuts) confifting 
of twenty-two memoirs. Thereis a 
curious letter of CALDANTI in it (pro- 
feffor of medicine at Padua) on the fub- 
je& of two pretended hermaphrodites ; 
alfo a hiftory of the Kermes, and of the 
ufe made of it in the middle ages; and 
a differtation on the knowledge which 
‘the antients had of the fexual fyftem cf 
plants, by Rossr. 
Since the announcement, by SPax- 
LANZANI, of the difcovery of a fixth 
‘Yenfe in bats, which, with thofe animals, 
is a fubftitute for fight: all the naturalifts 
of Italy are, if I may ufe the expref- 
fion, in clofe purfuit of thisorgan. The 
volume | laft mentioned, contains a me-. 
moir of doétor BonvicrNny, which an- 
nounces a fimilar difcovery in fnails. 
In Verona, is another academy of 
agriculture and arts, a fucciné hiftory 
of whofe tranfaétions is publithed an- 
ually, in the form of a programme, by 
the marquis ALEXANDER CARLOTTI. 
It is printed by Moroni, under the title 
of Storia dell’ Academia di Agricultura, 
Commercio ed arti di Verona. nthe fame 
city was publithed, laft year, a pamphlet 
of 20 pages, in 8vo. entitled, Offerva- 
zone Meteorolngiché, Mediche, ed Agrarie, 
Jaile in Verona, nell anno, 1794. 
Sew 
Prefent State of Literature in Italye 
The literary fociety of Belluno has 
announced the following queftion, asa 
fubjeét of the prize (twenty-four fe- 
quins) to be adjudged at their next ge- 
neral meeting : ‘* What mode can be adopt=- 
ed, likely to prove ibe moft efficacious, in re- 
contiling and harmonizing the Itahan Pus. 
riftes, furnamed CRUSCANTI, aud the 
modern Neologifis?’’ For a number of 
years paft, a new edition of the dic- 
tionary della Crujca has been preparing 
at Florence, on principles more compre- 
henfive than formerly. The new verbs, 
efiftere, analizzare, tafleggiare, illeggzradritey 
remareare, riafittare, till now the ftum- 
bling-block of the CauscANnrTy, are here 
cordially admitted and naturalized. 
ASTRONOMY. 
The beft Obfervatory in Italy, is that 
of BoscovieH and DE LA GRANGE, 
in the ci-devant College of Jefuits, called 
la Breza,at Milan. SCHAFFER, in his 
Letters on Italy, lately publithed (Briefe 
auf einer reize durch Italien, vol. i. page 
,206) gives it the preference even to that 
of Greenwich. An interefting defcrip- 
tion of it is alfo to be met with in a 
Voyage to Lombardy, by the Spanith 
Abbé, JUAN ANDRES, publifhed at Ma- 
drid, in 1793, under the title of Cartas 
familiares del Ab. F. Andres, a fu hermano, 
C. Andres, a work, in other refpects, wor- 
thy of mention, and particularly for the 
accuracy of its defcriptions. The Hpbe- 
merides Aftronomice of Milan, begun in 
the year 1775, have been continued up 
to 1795. ‘The title of the laft volume 
is, Epbemerides Aftronomice, Anni 1796, 
ad merid:anum Mediolanenfim. fuppeditaia. 
Accedit appendix, cum obfervationibus 
opufculs. Mediolant, apud Galeatium (in 
8vo. 218 pages.) The Abbés REGGIO, 
.CEsaRis, and ORIANI, are alternately 
editors of this work, and enrich it with 
remarks and occational differtations. 
Next tothe Epbemerides of Milan, we 
may rank the Tavola delle Efemer. Aftrons 
calcolute col mexxagiorno di tempo medi nel 
meridiano di Rona, ad ufo della fpecola 
Gaetani, publifhed at Rome, by Fulgoni, 
1795. This obfervatory, conftructed at 
Rome, by the Duke D1 SimoneTTa FR. 
GaETANI, on the fummit of his palace, 
is now under the direétion of the Abbé 
Verca. P. Audefredi has givena de- 
{cription of it in his Travels. : 
PILVASTES O2C. 
Among the original produétions on 
the fubjeét of the mathematics and phy- 
fics, the continuation of the Elementi 
d Algebra, by Profeflue P. Paowi, of 
Pavia; the fecond volume of which 
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