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-fent, very zealous in promoting aftrono- 
mical refearches, and every thing de- 
pendant on them. La Puiacet, De 
LAamMBRE, and Mecuain, whofe me- 
rit is well known in che philofophical 
world, are placed in the Marine-Office, 
with confiderable falaries. BEAUCHAMP 
is appointed conful for Mafcatta in Ara~- 
bia, there to fuperintend, and to perfect, 
‘as much as in him lies, the eaftern geo- 
graphy. Nover and PeRrny have been 
fent into the Netherlands and to the 
Rhine, to lay down a feries of triangles 
in thofe diftriéts. MrcHAIN is now 
bufy in Perpignan on the meafurement 
of a degree in the earth’s furface, whilft 
Dre LaMBRE is preparing to meet him 
with a feries of triangles.from Orleans. 
_A bafis for triangles for the fame pur- 
pofe is to be formed-near Tralles, in 
the canton of Berne, to which place 
MonruLty Mac. No, I, 
‘Literary Notices. - 
49 
LaLanbe has fent the neceffary requi= 
fites for accurate menfuraticn. ‘The re- 
velution has fearcely difturbed the la- 
bours of Lalande, who, fince. the year 
1789, has been preparing his catalogue of 
the fixed ftars, which will contain above 
thirty thoufand. In commemoration of 
the inftrument which has been fo fer- 
Viceable to him in this work, he has 
placed a new conftellation between the 
Dragon, Bootes, and Hercules, which 
he calls the Mural Quadrant. Lalande is 
now Direétor of the National Obfervatory 
(formerly called the Royal Obfervatory) 
and one of the Committee for the longi- 
tude, eftabiifhed by a decree of the Con- 
vention, as well as of the Committee for 
Navigation on Canals.- Several canals 
are already undertaken, as one from the 
Oife to the Sambre, and others are pro- 
pofed for the employment of the foldiers 
as foon as they are difbanded. ‘The lati- 
tude of the National Obfervatory is fet- 
tled by Nouet and Perny at 48° 50! 11”, 
The French government is not lefs 
active in its preparations for the new 
eftablifhed decimal divifions. Prony, 
6 
“the engineer, is employed in fuperin.. 
tending the calculations for the tables 
of fines and logarithms. The fines are to 
be calculated for every ten thoufandth 
part of a quadrant (that is, about 30" in 
the fexagefimal fyftem) to twenty-two 
decimal places, with fifty differences. 
Logarithms dre given for the fines and 
tangents of every hundred thoufandth part 
of a quadrant (about 3”) to twelve deci- 
mal places, with the fecond differences, 
The logarithms of common numbers, 
from one to two hundred thoufand, to 
twelve decimal places, with the firft and 
fecond differences; and the logarithms 
from one toten thoufand, are to be cal- 
culated to twenty-five decimal places. 
Fifteen calculators have been appointed, 
and each calculation is to be made twice. 

LITERARY NOTICES, 
D®: Darwin will fpeedily gratify the 
public with a fecond volume of his 
Zoonoomia. Itis in fucha ftate of for- 
wardnefs, that'it may be expeéted by the 
end of this month. , 
Dr. G. Gregory is about to go to prefs 
with a capital philofophical work, in 
three large volumes, o€tavo, under the 
title of “Lhe Economy of Nature ex- 
plained and illuftrated on the Principles 
of modern Philcfophy. Such a work 
has long becn a defideratum. 
; H Propofals 
