1800: } 
Hommies-de-Lettres quel’ Academie Fran- 
caife auroit recu parmi fes membres, et 
que la Revolution a comptés parmi fes 
partifans les plus éclairés. 
pas étre nommés ; leur noms ne font rien 
ala chofe ; c’elt leur travail qu’il faut ju- 
ger; il eft foumis au jugement de la 
France et de l'Europe.” 
The word revolution is not indecd to be 
found in this Appendix or Supplement, 
it not being a new one in any other fenfe 
but as applied to the new order of things 
in France; but the new words derived 
from it, viz., the fubftantive and adjec- 
tive revolutionnaire, and the verb revalz- 
tionner, are there. 
All the words contained in this Supple- 
ment to the French Academy’s Dictionary 
here mentioned, with a confiderable num- 
ber of others which are omitted, will] be 
given in my French Diétionary of New 
Words, announced for fpeedy publication 
in your Number for July, p. 582. 
W. Du Pre. 
P. S. I fhould have obferved that Ordre du 
jour, mentioned by the French Philological 
Critic as not to be found, is defined in the 
Supplement to the new edition of the French 
Academy’s Di@tionary with the phrafe,— 
¢¢ Paffer a l’ordre du jour fur une propofition 
c’eft a dire’ne pas le mettre en deliberation,” 
exatly as it is ufed in our parliament, 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N addition to what has been faid in p. 
_ arrelating to the earwig, be pleafed 
to infer: the following remarks. Valmont 
de Bomare, a writer of great credit and 
veracity, in his Diétionary of Natural 
Hiftory, {peaks from his own experience 
of the dreadful power which this infect 
poffeffes of injuring mankind, and gives 
another cafe of a woman who was affliéted 
ina fimilar manner. He prefcribes on this 
-occafion the ufe of olive-oil, «hich ap- 
pears to be deftruétive to the earwig, and 
admonifhes people from fleeping on the 
grafs, or under trees. I cannot now re- 
collect where I have read of fome other re- 
markable inftances of the mifchief occa- 
fioned by this noxious creature, in pene- 
trating the ear ; but hope that fuch of 
your readers who have met with any, either 
from their own knowledge, or fiom well- 
atte(ted relations, will communicate them 
for the public good. There have been 
fome doubts refpeciing the etymology of 
earwig, thoughit feems perfeétly clear that 
Earwig.—Prints of Guillotine. . 
Ils ne veulent 
111 
it means literally an éar-worm: A. ., 
€an pigga. It mutt not, however, be 
concealed, that the Saxans likewife called 
it the earth-worm, Gonp Pigga; but 
-from the circumttance of its penetrating 
the ear, and allo from the French name, 
perce creille, the former term feems- the 
mott appropriate. I fhall beg leave to 
- communicate, on fome future occalion, ‘a 
few remarks on the economy of this ani- 
mal, that feems to have efcaped general 
obfervation,. 
In the year 1795 was publifhed at Leip. 
zig, © Tafchenbuch fir Fintenlichbaber,” 
or The Ink-Lover’s Pocket-book, with 
inftructions for making all forts of it, and 
a hiftory of the art, &c. As this work 
confifts only of 172 pages, I thould think 
it might be worth while to offer a tranfla- 
tion of it toc ur countrymen, and defire to 
throw this out as a hint. | 
To the initances I have a'ready given in 
vol. IX.» p. 247, of prints refpecting the 
guillotine, I beg leave to add the follow- 
ing : 
rr. Another reprefentation of the Death 
of Manlius, by George Pens, of Nurem. 
berg, engraved about 1550, different from 
that of the fame fubject by Aldegreves, 
12. A large print, engraved by David 
Gen, in 1776, from an ancient painting by 
Andrea Mantegna, ina church at Padua, 
reprefenting the Death of St. James the 
Apoftle. The mode of execution re. 
fembles that already defcribed from Pet. 
de Natalibus, except that the axe only refts 
on the neck, which is placed between two 
upright polts. Both thefe prints are alfo 
in the writer’s poffeffion, 
Some account of the invention and 
principles of Galvinifm would no doubt 
be acceptable to your readers, and they 
would be under obligations to fome of 
your phifofophical correfpondents for fuci 
a communication. I am aware that in 
fome of your former volumes the fubjest 
has been difcuffed, but I believe that ne 
fimple defcription of the feience itfelf, o¢ 
of the mode by which it was difcovered, 
has yet appeared. The improvement alfo 
by Volta fhould be noticed, - 
6th Auguff, 1800. D. F. 
Serer 5 Ace ss 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
STIR, 
HE ill-fuecefs which has attended 
fome of thofe nfeful, and now almog 
neceflary, eftablifhmenss, back-focieties, 
induces 
