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more than a century the exactitude of our 
calculations, may acquire all pofilible 
perfection and utility. - 
Meffieurs KLUGEL, GILBERT, ahd 
Pistror, came from Halle, a-celebrated 
univerhty of the king of Prufha. M. 
“SCHAUBACE came irom Méeinungen. 
M. SEYFLER, of Gottingen, has pro- 
mifed fome obiervations and calculations 
which we are in want of. M.KouLer 
brought a new photometer, to meafure 
_the light of the ftars, and a reflecting fele- 
noftate, which laft is an ingenious ma- 
chine. M. FEER, of Zurich, brought 
us a new drawn chart of Rhinthal, with 
a reflecting fextant. All thele perfons 
agreed to accredit the new ineafures, and 
-to employ mean time and decimals in 
calculations. M. SEYFFERT, of Dref- 
den, prefented me with a decimal com- 
puter, which he made himfelf. We 
made a tour to the mountain of Infelberg, 
with chronometers, fextants, and artifi- 
cial horizons of different forms, to com- 
pare them; and I am thoroughly per- 
fuaded that the geography of Germany 
will foon be confiderably advanced by the 
ufe of thofe inftruments which M. DE 
Zac has accredited-and propagated. 
This ufeful meeting might have been 
more numerous; but M. VEGA wrote 
to me from Auftria, that he could not 
obtain permiffion to come to the rendez- 
vous at Gotha ; and what was ftill worfe, 
he had been cbliged, in order to write to 
me, to fend my letter and his an{wer to 
the minifter. The king of Pruffia, on 
the other hand, ordered a fm of 1200 
livres to be paid to his aftronomer for the 
expences of his journey. ‘The aftronomer 
of Gottingen, although a fubje&t of the 
king of England, met with no difficulty 
in repairing to us. 
An Englifh Journal had infinuated to the 
duke of Gotha, that a French aftronomer 
might well be employed in tracing other 
revolutions than celeftial ones; but I didnot 
perceive that thefe alarms had cooled the 
cordial reception which I had been led to 
expect. At length we feparated, well 
convinced of the utility of our conferences; 
and with a determination to renew them 
as {con as the means fhould be within our 
power. 
_. I yifited, in paffing, the obfervatory at 
Manheim, which had afforded me {fo 
much fatisfaétion in 17913 but I found 
the inftruments packed up under vaults, 
which the bomb-fhells had {carcely re- 
fpected ; in fine, waiting the return of 
peace, without which, Icience and hap- 
pinefs are infecure. The minifier DAR- 
On the modera Improvements in Live Stock. 
: [April 
BERG, whom I folicited to fecond the 
zeal of M. Barry, teftified for me ex- 
prefons of the beft good will. 
The 25th Frimaire (Dec. 15, 1797}s 
the birth-day of Tycuo BRAHE, dottor 
Joun CH. BuRCKHARD® came to vifit 
mé; this fkilful aftronomer, born at 
Leipzig, April 30, 4773, is a Warm 
promoter of the aftronomy of Franee 3 
he is now emploved in tranflating inte - 
German the book of citizen LEPLACE on 
Celeftial Mechanics, ox the Theory of Attrac- 
tion , as faft as it is printed. This important 
work will give the lait degree of perfec- 
tion to our tables; 200 pages of it are 
already in the prefs. 
On the fame day, I requefted of general 
BUONAPARTE to procure us a good in- 
ftrument for the obfervatory ; and on the 
25ti Ventofe (March 19), government 
granted me 10,000 francs to purchafe 
the 74 foot mural quadrant of citizen Le 
Monnier. For a long time paft we 
have been foliciting good inftruments for 
the obfervatory ; citizen CASSINI, when 
he was direCtor of it in 1785, had ob- 
tnined funds for this purpofe from the 
minifter BReTEUIL, he had not time, 
however, to apply them to the proper 
ufe. When I was direétor in 1795, I 
renewed my applications, and we have been ~ 
at length enabled, for the firft time, to 
obtain, for the fineft obf{ervatory* in the 
world, an inftrument worthy of France. 
The board of longitude has added to it 
an achromsatic teleicope; but that was not 
fufficient. as 
(To be concluded inour next.) | 
ee ES 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, - 
ee your laft magazine, I obferve you did 
me the honour toinfert at large my 
anfwer to the queries of one of your cor- 
refpondents, on certain practical points 
in hufbaudry. Iam row about to requeft 
acorner of your next, for a few obferva- 
tions, fuggefted by experience, upon a 
moft important and fundamental member 
of the fame fubject. - 
A. particular attention to breeding cattle 
with the attempt at fyftematic improve- 
ment in their form, is, in a great mealure 
to be efteemed a modern purfuit. Our 
forefathers were generally content: to 
leave the matter to nature, unfolicitous 

* The conftruGion ofthe obfervatory has 
been computed to coft one million, without 
including the foundation and fubterrancous 
cells, which are 80 fee: deep. i 
to 
