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tice of Midwifery, and the Difeafes of 
Women and Children, in the following or- 
der: Dr. Dennison at the London Hof- 
pital, at eleven in the forenoon, Dr. SQUIRE 
at No. 7, Ely Place, Hoiborn, at feven in 
the evening. 
Me(irs. S$. Matco and J. MericotT 
have circulated propofals for publifhing by 
fubfcription, Pi@urefque Views of the 
different Glaciers of Europe, in fix num- 
bers; each number to confitt of two very 
large plates, beautifully executed in co- 
lours, by themfelves, from drawings by 
Chatelet, Belanger, and other emiment ar- 
tits, Thefe numbers will confi€ of views 
of different glaciers of Switzerland and Sa- 
voy; and allo of, glaciers of Lapland and 
Norway. of which laft no Views have ever 
before been taken. They alfo propofe to 
publifh by fubfcription, the Naural Hif- 
tory and Delcription of thofe Glaciers ; 
with plans, elevations, and views of fuch 
parts of them as are not reprefented in the 
twelve large plates. 
A tranflation is in the prefs, and will 
fpeedily be publifhed, of a View of the 
Commerce of Greece, formed after an an- 
nual Average from 1787 to. 1797, by M. 
Beaujour, who refided feveral years in 
that country. It is intended to fubjoin 
tables, exhibiting at one view the weights, 
measures, and money of Turkey, with 
their correfpondent Englifh weights, &c. 
Mr. Lesiige, of Largo, in Fifethire, 
has publifhed in Nicholion’s Chemical 
Journal {ome new and important facts on 
the different proportions of moifture ab- 
forbed from the air by the feveral fimple 
earths and various earthy compounds. 
The fub#ances operated on were previ- 
oufly dried in a heat above that of boiling 
water, and then put into a receiver toge- 
ther with ahygrometer. The following 
are the refults exprefied in degrees of the 
hygrometer at the temperature of 50 deg. 
Fahrenheit : 
Carbonat of Strontian 23 deg. 
Carbonat of Barytes 2 
Quartz - 40 
Marble « 70 
Carbonat of Magnefia AS, 
Alumine . $4 
The fame refpeétable journal contains an 
accurate anolyis, by R. CHENEVix, efq. 
of arare kind of lead-ore which has hi- 
therro been claffed among the carbonats of 
lead, though differing from them in being 
lefs hard, of confiderably interior fpecific 
gravity, of a glofly fracture, and a far 
more brilliant lufre: it alfo prefents va- 
riéties of cryftallization, which are not 
found to occur in the fimple carbona’s of 
lead. The component parts of this’ ore 
appear to be 
Muriat of Lead 59 
Carbonat of Lead go 
Sulphat of Baryt I 

100 

Thus the long controverted point refpedt- 
ing the exiftence of native muriat of lead 
feems to be decided. 
De ta ROGHEFOUGAULT Lian- 
courT, who during his exile from 
France acquired fo much cel-brity by his 
Acceunt of his Travels through North 
America, is returned to Paris; where he 
has tormed a focicty, by fubfcription, for 
the purpofe of intreducing the inoculation 
for the Cow Pox. They have already 
appropriated a houfe for trying experi- 
ments, and appointed a committee, whe 
are to keep a journal of the progreffive 
fymptoms of the difeafe in the children in- 
oculated in this manner, and to make a 
report relative thereto to the fociety. The 
committee confifts of Cit. Pinel, Le Roux, 
Parfait, Montgenot, Guillotin, Salmade, 
Dovuffin Dubrewil, Marin and Colon, and of 
C. Deleflert, Clavereau, Latteyrie, Thouret 
and Liancourt. The fociety has fent to 
Londen and Hamburgh for matter to ino- 
culate with; and Dr. WoopviLte of Lon- 
don, by permiffion of both governments, has 
lately fet out to Paris, for the exprefs pur= 
pole of introducing the new inoculation in- 
to France. Other Englifh phyficians have 
lately embarked for Italy, and for feveral 
other parts of the world, to direét the pro- 
grefs of this important difcovery; and there 
is reafon to hope from the aétive exertions 
adopted, that ina fhort time its happy 
eifeés will be fpread univerfally, 
The learned Profellor MUNTER is en~ 
gaged in publifhing, at Copenhagen, the 
refult of his refearches on the infcriptions 
and other antiquities of Perfepolis. 
Count Lupbo.ur, the Imperial minitter 
at the Danifh court, has completed a li+ 
teral tranflation (in German profe) of the 
fist halfof Ferduji’s great Perfian epic and 
heroick poem, the Shah Nameh. This 
celebrated work contains in all above one 
hundred and twenty thoufand lines, and is 
the chef-@cuvre of Perhan poetry ; bat 
we underftand the publication of tivs tran 
lation has nar yet been undertaken. 
Itis underftood that Korze Bus has heen 
releafed from his confinement in Ruffia, on 
the interccflion of the King of Pruffia. 
The Emperor of Ruffia has eftablithed, 
and very liberally endowed, an univerfity 
at Dorpat, with twenty-two profeffors. 
Magazines of corn are about to be eita- 
blifhed throughout the Ruffian empire, of 
which eyery village of fifty honles is to 
have ih 



