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AR TROT TEs, 
LrtTeRARY and PHILOSOPHICAL$ 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. 
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HE plan for an Inffitution fer the ap- 
plication of philofophy to the improve- 
nent of the mechanical arts, which was an- 
nounced in the laft number of ourMagazine, 
is, by-the ative and patriotic zeal of fome 
of the moft eminent perfons in this coun- 
try, now adyancing, with furprifing rapi- 
dity, into full accomplifhment. Its 
author is COUNT RUMFORD; a man 
who has vifited various parts. of the world, 
and to every one he has vifited, has been 
a diftinguifhed benefaétor. Nearly three 
thonfand pounds fterling have been 
already fub{cribed for the purpofe of de- 
fraying the expences of the eftablifhment. 
The contributors are to confift of three 
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fubferibers of fez guineas each; fub- 
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the eftablifliment. Subfcribers of ten 
guineas are to have -for life, free accefs 
to all the ufesof it. Subfcribers of two 
guineas, are to have fimilar accefs but 
for the {pace of a year only. The eftablifh- 
ment is to confift of a Repofitory for the 
prefervation of models of all new inven- 
tions in the arts,-—of an office of corref- 
pondence for receiving and communicat- 
ing new information concerning all 
improvements which the arts receive 
in every different part of the world— 
of an inftitution of Leuref/bips for 
the application of f{cience to the im. 
provement of the arts, The fubfcribers 
of fifty guineas edch, already amount 
nearly to the number of fixty. They 
have had one or two meetings, have 
elected a Committee of managers ; and 
have agreed to apply to the crown for an 
incorporating charter. The following are 
the names of the noblemen and gentlemen 
who have been chofen as the firft managers 
of this inftitution: EARL SPENCER, 
CounT RUMFORD, RICHARD CLARK, 
Efq. for three years—The Eart of 
EGREMONT, the Right Hon. Sir J. 
Banks, RicHaRD JOSEPH SULLIVAN, 
Efg. for two years.--The Ear of Mor- 
TON, the Right Hon, Tuo, PELHam, 
‘THO. BERNARD, Ef{q, for one year. 
Dr. BEDDOES anyounces for publication 
in two or three weeks, an eflay on Pulmo- 
nary Confumption for the ule of families. 
Dr. GARNETT profeffor of natural 
Montury Mac. No. xiii, 
philofophy and chemiftry in the academi- 
cal inititution founded at Glafgow, in 
confequence of the will of the late 
profeflor ANDERSON, has been for 
fome time laborioufly engaged in the 
compofition of a work upon the Topo- 
graphy, the Antiquities, and the Natural 
Hiftory of the Highlands of Scotland. 
It will fll two volumes iz quarto; and 
will be accompanied with maps and other 
illuftrative engravings. It is now nearly 
ready for the prefs. 
The Rev. Mr. Tooke, formerly 
Chaplain to the Britifh Embaffy at St. 
Peterfburgh, is now employed in the 
compofition of a Lopagraphical Work upon 
the Provinces of the Rufian Empires 
which will fhortly be given to the 
public. 
The publication of the Works of Sir 
WiLLiaM JONES which the public were 
led to expect in the beginning of the 
month of March,has been delayed in confes 
quence of the communication to the editor, 
of genuine materials for an _ additional 
volume. It will take place, early in 
May. he. editor is the. Dean. of . St: 
Afaph’s. 
There has been lately communicated 
to the Royal Society of London, a very 
curious anatomical paper which accounts, 
by a theory of great ingenuity and fim- 
plicity, for the origin of whatever is 
peculiarly and ftrikingly mafculize in the 
appearance and manners of any indivi- 
duals of the female fex, in any f{pecies .of 
animals ; and, on the contrary for any 
thing remarkably fezzinive in the appear- 
ance and manners ot individuals of the 
male fex. 
Dr. GuTurie of Peterfburg, has re- 
cently communicated to his friends in 
this country, a diverfity of remains, ap- 
parently of Egyptian Antiquity, which 
were found upon the fhores cf tke 
Euxine fea The Do&tor, has for fome 
time, taken pains, at a very confiderable 
expence, to form a collection of remains 
of ancient art from the banks of the 
Euxine. His obje& is to afcertain, if 
poflible, fome capital hiftorical faéts con- 
cerning that Egyptian Colony, which fome 
hints in ancient Grecian hiftory, repre- 
-fent, as having formed a {ettlement in 
Colchos. He is exceedingly defirous to 
be made acquainted with any new faéts 
Gg con- 

