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The following Literary Journals, for- 
merly of the higheft celebrity in France, 
have all been difcontinued fince the 
commencement of the Revolution: Le 
Fournal des Savans, Le Fournal Encyclo- 
pedi que, Le Fournal de Phyfique, Le Fournal 
di ficire Nowurelle, Les Annales de Chyzmie, 
LD Ejprit des Fournoux. 
Grrop CHANTRANS read lately to 
the Philomathic Society of Paris, an ob- 
fervation which he had made on the 
conferva bullofa, a plant which he had 
preferved dry for about eighteen months, 
and which then refembled nothing but a 
{mall heap of greyifh duft : this, however, 
after the vafe which inclofed it was filled 
with water, gradually refumed its green 
colour, its little tubes filling up again, and 
new filaments growing. ‘TPhis was not a 
refurreétion merely in appearance, like 
that of dry moffes after they are wetted 
again, but real and complete, like that of 
certain animals. He communicated alfo 
an obfervation relative to the organization 
of the By/fus botryoides S velutma, which 
varies according to the times in which it 
is obfecved. At firft it is nothing but 
a confufed affemblage of corpufcles ; after 
which follow the tubes, which, when they 
become developed, they alfo fill up with 
fimilar corpufcies.T hefe corpufcles he con- 
fidersas the grains, or eggs, of the By/as. 
The fame writer has alfo noticed a 
common miftake of naturalifts relative io 
two members in the male fhark, which 
they have hitherto confdered as_ the 
genitory organs of thofe fifhes. Thetfe 
are demonftrated by Biocn to be a fort 
“of paws, articulated or jointed, by means 
ef which, in the aét of copulation, the 
male is enabled to gripe and compreis 
the female. Monfieur HErBsrv has alfo 
made a fimilar difcovery with refpeét to 
the double parts of cray-fifh, hitherto 
always treated as organs of generation, 
and which he proves to be intended for 
the fame ufes as in the inftance above- 
mentioned. ‘Thefe difcoveries form a 
new point of union for fithes and infe‘is 
inithe hiftory of the affinities of animals. 
It is erroneoufly, therefore, that Linnzus 
has faid in his Syftem*of Nature, of she 
fifhes which he has called Amphibia nantia, 
“<< mares pene duplici imfidentes femiits, 
fince there are cnly two genera of fithes on 
which thefe parts are found, and in thefe 
thev are not organs of generation, but a 
kind of articulated extremities. The bones 
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Eves 
of which thefe extremities are com pofeds 
have been already defcribed feparately 
by BaTaRRa, in the Artz dell Academia 
dt Siena, VATV; pi 3 sensu Te aes 
Guftavus III, king of Sweden, had 
purchafed, at Rome, fome valuable an- 
tiques, an account of which has lately 
appeared at Stockholm, under the title 
of Ex mufeo Regis Succie antiquarum é€ 
marmore fiatuarum Apollnis Mufagete, 
Minerva pacificeree, acnovem Mufarum f2- 
17s integia, poft Vaiicanam unica, cum altis 
feleciis prifce artis nionumentis, ad curante 
C. F. Von-Fredenxherm, wfpe&tor of the 
the king’s cabinet, in folic. The plates 
are feventeen in number. Among thefe 
monuments is a very fingular bas-relief, 
reprefenting a tripod placed upon an 
altar, about which a ferpent is wmding; 
at the bottom of the altar is a fambeau ; 
on the altar this infeription appears: 
Malus Genius Bruti. Facing it ftands a 
winged genius, with his bow bent, in aét 
ready to ftrike the ferpent; the coftume 
of the genius is Phrygian or Perfian. 
The editor conceives this piece to have 
~been of the early times of Auguftus, 
prior to that perfection which the arts 
attained in the fubfequent part of his 
reign. cae 
The Batavian prints make the mof 
honourable mention of HENRY DANIEL 
Guyor, infitutor of the deaf and dumb 
at Groninguen. ‘This worthy pupil of 
the Abbé.de ?Epée (who is alfo an 
evangelical minifter) meets every day 
with aftonifhing proofs of fuccefs im his 
Virtuous undertaking. Extrdordinary 
public honours have been paid to him 
on this account by his fellow-citizens. 
J. A. MeTGER is now appointed an 
affociate of his ufeful labours. . The 
National Conventicn alfo of Batavia, 
have paffed a refolution, purporting, 
that ‘* the virtuous Guyot has deferved . 
well of fuifering humanity,” and has pro- 
mifed jts proteétion to the inftitution, 
which. now contains about thirty pupils. 
* RogseL, in his Memoirs on Injeéis, has 
given a corre€t reprefentation of thefe paits, in 
the filty-fixth plate of the third velume ; but in 
his explication of this cut, in his defcription of 
frefh-water cray-.fifh, he acknowledges his igno- 
rancg of the ufe of them. He gives his opi- 
nion, however, that they are not the fexual 
parts of the male, as the feminal veflels never 
terminate in that kind of organ, but in two 
veticles which are feated between the laft pair 
of true claws. 

(S The Reader is requefied ta corre, with the fen, an error of the printer in tle firfi page of 
this article, and to read, for ‘* Barolin’s nia Globes’—* BARDIN’s new Britifh Globes.” 
BARDIN’s name is doubtlefs familiar 10 many of our intelligent readers, 
Mr. 
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