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WMofk of our botanical readers no doubt 
are acquainted with the ** Sertum Hanover- 
ent,” OF defcriptions of the rarer plants 
cultivated in the royal gardens near Han- 
over, forich in curious exotics, which was 
berun to be publifhed by Mefirs. SCHRA- 
DER and WENDLAND, in 1795, in num- 
bers, confilting ot fix coloured plates and 
three fheets of letter folio. The 
fourth number has appeared; and in fu- 
ture it is to be continued by Mr . WEND- 
RAND alone, under the title of ** Hortus 
Herrenhujanus.” 
tees learned men in France have been 
ving the power of mufic on animals, 
and have given a concert to the elep shants 
in the National Garden of Plants: It 
ae ared to ne m them “ie pafiion 
t Jove. 
t appears from the voyage of Citizen 
AUCHAMP in Afia, lately: traniimitied 
o JEROME DE. LALANDE, director of 
he obkiervatory at Paris, éc. that our 
Enowiedye of the Black Sea, trom the ig- 
noranee of the Turks and jealouly ot the 
Ruffians, is as yet very imperiect among 
breadth 
-preis, 
Et ap 
Beer 
RO 
= 
other particulars, | ifs between- 
- apne Pharadze and Cape Indgé, which 
vay been hitherto ~ thoucht to be 62 
5 
iga oy is only 37 5 
Sinope, which in as our beft charts has 
been placed at 41 degrees north, is now 
found to be exadily” 42 degrees, 2 Mi- 
MULES. 
now nearly a yea that Cas- 
“SAL, an officer of he French national me- 
Nagerie, was fent to Tunis to procure 
" animals. The peftilence which af- 
dicted that city and the environs, during 
many months, did not allow him to exe- 
cute his miffion fo completely as he could 
have wifhed. Atl that he could colleé 
were, a fuperb lion and a lioncifs, both turee 
years eld; another -lionefs, eighteen 
months old, and very ferocious, preiented 
to him by the Dey of Conftantine; two 
oftriches, a folie lion cub, two white 
2 
Tit is 
camels, and two antelopes, prefents oi 
the Bey of Tunis, and. three fpotted vul. 
tures; together with three ftone-hortes. 
The mot complete catalogue, perhaps, 
of exotic plants pee a exifts in Germany, 
zs that of Berggar Bon il garden} at 
Herrenhaufen, eG Hanover, publithed at 
Paris in German, during the prefent year. 
Tt contains nearly 3000 ace ; which is 
partly owing to a preient of rare plants 
from the royal garden at Kew, to that 
at Herrenhaufen. 
Whe ac if 
icademy of {ciences at Gottingen, 
z 3 rhy dana ats 
Fifty Literary and Philofophical Notic 
and “the latitude of 
fOe, 
for the vetslttan of the following quef- 
tion: Queritur in quibufuam infeorum & 
vermium ordinibus refpirationis f. Spiriium 
ulio modo ducendi funtiio G effecius ejus 
primarius, qui vulgo proceffus pblogiftict, 
combufluse certo refpetiu comparandi no- 
mine venit, obfervationibus & experimentis 
demonflrart poffit ? 
By an ordonnance of the 21ft of March 
of the current year, his Swedith Majetty 
has granted to M.Noropin, of Herno- 
fond, im the. province of Nordland, the 
excluiive privilege of a Laplend printing 
office. 
A new machine, avers by Count 
T. H. BATHIAN, afcend the river 
againf{ the ftream ‘e Howe ny manual 
afliftance, was lately tried on the Danube. 
The machine weighed more than 700 
centners, and a load of 450 centuers was 
taitened ¢o it, together with a loop. The 
experiment was completely fuccelsful. 
it appears, from a notice on, gum- 
arabic by Citizen SWEDIAUR, of the 
National Inftitute, that all the gum ef 
that name Oy comes in the way of 
trade, is not cellefted on trees, as is com- 
monly i imag med. The fize of the pieces, 
and the foreign fubftances with whick 
they are often impregnated, firft raifed 
his doubts on that head, After many 
ufelefs enquiries with the merchants, che 
at length met with 2 man who had Jon 
lived on the coaft of Angola, from whom 
he learnt that the mo common way in 
which the greateft quantity oi gum arabic 
SS abime ion commerce, is by digging 
cavities at the foot of the old trees, par- 
ticularly of the mimosa nilotica and Senegal, 
Parge, matles of the gum which have ex- 
uded from the roots, perhaps dur ring fome 
ages, and which are detached irem the 
bafe of the tree, are then difcovered. The 
natives clear thefe lumps from the earth 
which adheres to them, either by wathing 
them, or melting them together. 
M. Hu FELAND, proteflor of medicine 
in the univerfity of Jena, who formerly 
a << Annals of Medicine in France,”? 
{a periodical work, which has now been 
interrupted iome years by the revolution) 
has lately announced inthe Literary Jour- 
pal of Jena, his intention to publith forth- 
with the third yolume of that work. 
Another work fimilar to the preceding, 
is the ‘¢ Medico-Chirurgical Bsbtotbeque of 
Jialy, > or tranflations and extracts from 
the new works of the phyjicians and chirur- 
geons of Italy, publithed by Weigel, ‘at 
Leipiick, the «German literary journals 
{peak very highly in commendation of it. 
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