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finement in the Temple, &c.—Mifs Edge- 
worth’s Practical Education, tranflated by 
M. Charles Piet, of Geneva—and Dar- 
win’s Loves of the Plants, rendered into 
French verfe by M. Delenze. 
Profeflor BLUMENBACH, of GéOttin- 
gen, has given to the Royal Phyfical So- 
clety of that town a number of obferva- 
tions upon a new and remarkably curious 
quadruped, brought from Botany Bay, 
a fpecimen of which was fent to the pro- 
feffor, from England, by Sir Joleph 
Banks. This animal refembles fomewhat 
a fmall otter in every part but the head, 
which is exaétly like that of a duck, with 
along flat beak, and deftitute of teeth, 
but with the jaw ferrateds M. Blumen- 
bach calls it Oraithorbyncus paradoxus 
(or bird-beaked), and gives further paiti- 
colars concerning its fruéture*. 
The celebrated Univeifi:ty of Pavia has 
been again opened and re-organized by a 
decree of Bonaparte. it has been fhut up 
fince the invafion of the Auftrians. The 
firft clafs, or that of philofophy, embraces 
the fubje&s of mathematics, phyfics, na- 
tural hiftory, and the analyfis of ideas, 
The fecoud clafs, which is that of medi- 
cine, includes anatomy, botany, and che- 
miftry. The third isthe clafs of juri(pru- 
dence, and is devoted to the ftudy of the 
jaw of nature and nations, public econo- 
my, civil and criminal law, the hiftory of 
manners and cuftoms, eloquence and 
poetry. ; 
Of the thirty-eight members of which 
the French Academy confified, at the time 
of its diffolution, only fifteen are now 
alive. Eleven of them are in France, viz. 
Saint Lambert, Roquelaure (formerly bi- 
fhop of Senlis), De Lille, Suard, Le 
Harpe, Ducis, Target, Morellet, DA. 
guifieau, Boufflers, Gaillard; four of 
them are emigran:s: Cardinal Rohan, 
Boiigelin (archbithop of Aix), Choifeul 
Gouffier, and Cardinal Maury. — The 
names of the deccafed are: Nivernois, 
Cardinal Bernis, the ci-devant Count 
Bifly, Seguier (adyoca:e-general), the 
Abbé de Radony:iliers,; Marmont:], Car- 
dinal Lomenie, the Prince de Beauveau, 
De Brequigny, Lamoignon de Malef- 
herbes, Marfhal Duras, Chabanon, Le- 
mievie, Cnampfort, Condorcet, Bailly, 
Montefquieu, Guibert, Sedaine, Rul- 
hieres, Florian, Vicg d’Azyr, and Bar- 
thelemy. 

* The Englifh reader will find this fingu- 
Jar animal accurately reprefented and de- 
fcribed by Dr. Shaw in his Natural Hiftory. 
MONTHLY Mac, Ne. 63. 
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At the requeft of the National Infitute, 
the Chief Conlul has given orders to the 
minifter of the Marine, to caufe two cor. 
vettes to be fitted out at Havre, for a voy- 
age to the South Sea, under the command 
of Captain Baudin. The object of this ex. 
pedition is, to clear up fome doubtful points 
in geography, to examine the fouth-weft 
coaft of New Holland, and to enrich Eu- 
rope with the produtions of thofe diftant 
regions. Among other learned men, two 
aftronomers are to be fent; and QUENOT 
and CiccoLini (of Rome, formerly a 
knight of the Order cf Malta), have been 
proposed for this important miffion. On 
this occafion Lalande remarks, that it 
would be difficult to find a third aftrono- 
mer in France, who were both qualified 
and willing to undercake fuch a voyage. 
Citizen CHaussIeEr has difcovered that 
if the bodies of men cr animals be plunged 
for fome time in a {olution of corrofive 
fublimate, and afterwards dried, they af- 
fume the confiftency of wocd, and the air 
produces no effect upon them; and if the 
bedies be injected before they are plunged 
in the liquid they will retain the colour 
and appearance of life, and confequently 
form mummies far more perfeét than the 
Ecyptian. 
In the months of January, February, 
March and April, 1800, the licenfers ae 
Vienna prohibited above 150 different 
books, amovg which are, a tranflation of 
a pofthumous work of Gibbon, Roche- 
feucault’s Travels in North America, and, 
what will furprife many readers, even the 
zealous Abbé Barruel’s Memoires, pour fer- 
vir alHifloire du Facobinijme '\\ 
The Royal Society at Copenhagen have 
propofed the following as a prize-queftion, 
‘* Who were the people that difcovered 
America previoufly to the Norwegians ? 
and how far fouthward did the difcoveries 
of that people extend ?”’ 
The great aftronomer M. SCHROETER, 
of Lilienthal, has juft finifhed the manu- 
fcript cf his Hermographical Fragmenis, 
in which he gives an account of the periid 
of rotation of the planet Mercury, and 
other obfeivations on that planet. 
The celebrated naturalilt, Profeffor 
SCHNEIDER, of Frankfort cn the Qder has 
undertaken the continuation of Bloch’s 
Woik on Fifhes, and refides fince fome time 
at Berlin, for the purpofe of availing hime 
felf of his books, manuferipts and col- 
letion, He intends to leave unsltered 
whatever he finds finithed by Bloch him- 
felf, and only to add his cwn obfervations 
in notes. 
An, Agricultural Society has lately been 
etablithed 
Sat re er 
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