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Philofophical News.....Works in Hand, Ste.- 
which proves no detriment to dark cloths, 
but confiderably affects the gloflinets of 
lighter colours, ‘This inconvenience is 
ealily obviated, by employing, in the lat- 
ter cafe, only white rags for faturating 
the lixivium. . 
The Royal Library in Copenhagen 
has been enriched by the acquifition of 
the valuable collection of books belong- 
ing to the celebrated chancellor, de Suhm, 
‘This nobleman, by way of compenfa- 
tion for this literary ceffion, enjoys a 
yearly penfion of 3000 rix-dollars during 
life, with a contingent annuity of 2000 
rix-dollars to his lady, in cafe of furvi- 
val, 
A deferiptive catalogue has recently 
been’ publifhed im Stockholm, of the 
valuable antiques purchafed at Rome, 
by Guttavus TIT. ‘This catalogue is 
illuftrated with 17 plates. Among the 
moft remarkable articles may be reckoned 
a beautiful bas relief, reprefenting a 
triped placed upon an altar, with a flam- 
beau at the foot, round which a ferpent 
entwines itfelf. The altar bears this 
infcription, ** malus geniusBruti.”? Facing 
it is a winged genius, holding a drawn 
bow in his hand, feemingly in the act of 
difcharging his fhaft at the ferpent. 
The drefs of the genius is Phrygian or 
Perfian. The editor is of opinion, that 
this antique is the production of the firft 
years of the Auguftan age, and pro- 
nounces it to be anterior to that ftate of 
perfeétion which the art of {culpture 
attained towards the clofe of this em- 
peror’s reign, 
The Botanical Garden at Gottingen 
has been confiderably enlarged, and its 
valuable herbary enriched by the acqui- 
fition of the excellent and numerous col- 
IcStion of the late celebrated botanift 
Eberhardt, who was commiffioned by 
the King of England to compile the 
Flora Hanoverana. Nor do the arts in 
this active moment meet with lefs encou- 
ragement than the fciences. “Befides the 
rich colleStion of impreffions by Uffen- 
bach, this Univerfity has recently been 
put. in poffeffion of the beautiful cabinet 
of paintings belonging to the late Aulic 
eounfellor J. W. Zichern. ‘This col- 
Je€tion confifts of 270 articles, worthy 
of the Flemifh, Dutch, and German 
- {chools. 
_ Oxygene appears’ now to be the order 
of the day. Mr. Trotter attributes 
the fea {curvy to want of oxygene. Gir- 
tanner is of opinion, that fyphilis is 
induced, in confequence of # demereity 
ef oxygene im the fyfem,. Some afcribe 
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the curative operation of mercurial ox- 
ydes in Jues, to the oxygene they contain. 
While others pretend to have cured par~ 
ticular chronic diftempers, incident to the 
human frame, by the fole agency of 
oxygene, 
The Philotechnical Society in Paris held 
their public fittings on the rith of lat 
O&tober. The proceedings» of this af- 
fembly are greatly interefting. The 
Secretary, m a preliminary fpeech, ob-~ 
ferved, that inftead of launching out inte 
a dry and uninftructive analyfis of the 
whole proceedings of the fociety, they 
they would coniine their obfervations to 
a recapitulation of the new and import- 
ant difcoveries which fhould be made 
from fitting to fitting in the Sciences, the 
Belles Lettres, and the Arts, In purfu- 
ance of this judicious determination, re- 
port was made on the fubject of the firft 
part of the Engravings illuitrative of the 
‘¢ Eliftory of Ifiria and Dalmatia.’ "Then 
followed the report of the. Commiflaries 
appointed by the Society to examine the 
Panorama of Paris, executed in bas re- 
lief, by * DaRNauD. 
MaNGourIT read a diflertation, en- 
titled, “ Thoughts ou the progreffive march 
of the Human Race, round the whole Com- 
pofs of the Globe. ‘The author regards all 
the different nations fcatrered on the face 
of the earth, as one large fociety, which 
fucceffively makes the tour of every part 
of the globe, halting at particular places, 
till it has exhaufted all the various pro- 
duétions of the region, where they fix 
their temporary fojourn. Planters and 
cultivators of wafte lands are the harbin- 
gers of this large moving mafs of people ; 
and.thofe countries, where the arts and 
{ciences flourifh in the greateft perfection, 
form their place of temporary fojourn. 
This fojourn at prefent is Europe, but 
from a variety of ingenious conjectures, 
and actual refearches made by the author, 
during a long feries of journies in differ- 
ent parts of America, Citizen MANGOU- 
RIT gives it as his opmion, that Europe 
is threatened with no very diftant emi- 
gration of the large fociety of mankind, who 
will pafs over to America, whither they 
have already fent their harbingers, the 
cultivators and planters. 
LAVALLE terminated the fittings, with 
pronouncing a fpirited eulogium upon 
General Marceau. 
Dufrefne has communicated to the 
Society of Natural Hiftory at Paris, the. 

* A notice of this ingenious performance 
was given in our Magazine for laft November. 
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