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nine or ten fheets of it had already been 
rinted during his life; anocher part was 
Ring ready for the prefs among the papers 
of the deceafed ; and to complete the frag- 
‘ment as much as poffible, the editors 
‘have added L.’s Treatife on Rain, which 
had already been inferted in the Annals of 
Natural Philofophy. The force of rea- 
foning and the wit of the author is like- 
wife confpicuous m thefe fragments, 
which in a fmall fize contain much folid 
reafoning and information. 
HILDEBRANDT’s ® Encyklopadie der 
gefammten Chemie. Erlangen, 1799, 
s vol.” Prof. Hildebrandt of Erlangen, 
who enjoys a very high reputation in phy- 
fics and chemifiry, and ranks amongft the 
firft writers in both fciences, intends to 
‘lay up in this work the whole treafure of 
truths and experiments which have been 
difcovered in this fcience in antient and 
modern times; and it cannot fail, efpe- 
cially in fuch hands, to produce the greateft 
advantages to the {cience itfelf. 
“¢ Gefchichte der Chemie feit dem 
Wiederaufleben der Wiilenfchaften, bis 
van das Ende des 18 Jahrhunderts, von 
J. F. Gmecin.” ~Hiftory of Chemiftry, 
from the Revival of Literature to the 
End of the 18th Century. Gottingen, 
Rofenbufch, 3 vols. 1799, $vo. This 
work is the efghth part of the Hiftory of 
the Arts and Sciences, publifhed at Got- 
tingen under the direction of Profeffor 
E:icHHORN; and contains a complete 
and elaborate hiftory of that fcience, to- 
gether with its hiftory, for which the 
univerfity library of Gottingen, the richeft 
and beft furnifhed one for new books in 
Germany, affords ample materials. 
WaTURAL HISTORY. 
«© Hiftorie Amphibiorum Naturalis et 
Literarte Fafciculus primus, -continens 
Ranas, Calamitas, Bufones, Salamandras 
et Hydros, in Genera et Species defcrip- 
tos, Notifque fuis di:ftinétcs. Auctor 
Joan. GorLtog SCHNEIDER, Saxo. 
Jenae 1799, pp. 264, 8vo. The author, 
profeffor of Greek in the Pruffian univer- 
fity at Frankfurt, who has deferved in an 
equally high devree of Greek and Latin 
literature and of natural hiftory, intends 
in this work to give a hiftor cal furvey 
of the amphibia, by extracts from de({crip- 
tions at large of the refpective fpecies ; 
which will be followed ‘in another num- 
ber by anatomical defcriptions and repre- 
“fentations, drawn by himfelf, of new or 
“‘ill-reprefented {pecies, He modeftly calls 
this work only Extracts; but a great part 
of it contifts of excellent obfervations of his 
‘awn. It may be recommended as the 
~ “-MPonTHLY Mac. LXI. 
principal and beft work written on the 
whole clafs of the amphibia, as it is the 
firft critical work on that fubjeét, be- 
ginning always with able ftatements from. 
the antients, and proceeding to the moft ~ 
recent difcoveries. . 
Mr. BECHSTEIN, refiding at Walters- 
haufen, near Gotha, has given an excellent 
tranflation of ‘¢ Pennant’s Quadrupeds,”’ in 
two volumes 4to. enriched with very valu- 
able additions and a great number of quota- 
tions. he copperplates have been copied 
very exa€tly, and in a mafterly manner, 
by Mr, NussBieGEL of Nirenberg, and 
feveral new fpecies have been added. 
Prof. BLUMENBACH, of Gottingen, ftill 
continues his ufeful publication ** Abbil- 
dungen Naturhiftorifcher Gegenftande ;” 
‘Drawings of Subjeéts of Natural Hiftory ; 
of which the fifth number has made its 
appearance, every number containing ten 
cuts, drawn, under the infpeétion of the au- 
thor, from well-preferved fpecimens, either 
quite unknown till now (as, for inftance, 
the Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus, commue 
nicated by Sir Jofeph Banks, and never 
before reprefented in any drawing), or not 
well delineated in anterior works. A 
very concife and good explanation is added 
to every copperplate; the whole fervin 
to illuftrate the Compendium of Reel 
Hiftory publifhed by the fame author, the 
fixth edition of which is now felling very 
Yapidly,. © 
WMorAL Putrosopuy, METaruy 
SICS, &c. 
‘“ Grundrifs der Metaphyfik, von B, 
Cur, Eru. ScumipD.” Outlines of Me- 
taphyfics.  Altenb- 1799, pp. xxiv. and 
237, 8vo. Schmid is profeffor of Divinity 
at the univerfity of Jena; and this book 
may be recommended to thofe who with 
to acquire a general, but diftinét, know- 
ledge of the whole extent of the Kantean, 
or, as it is commonly ftyled, pure philofo- 
phy; though the author may be taxed 
with too anxious a feparationiof thofe 
principles that belong to a critical exami- 
nation of the original powers of the under- 
ftanding, from thofe that make part of 
‘a fyftem of metaphyfics. 
“Lehrbuch der Gefcitichte der Philofo- 
phie und einer Kritifchen Literatur der- 
felben, von J.G. Bune.” The Hiftory 
and Critical Literature of Philofophy. 
4 vols. Géotting, 1799; pp. 511, 8vo. 
Profeflor Buhle’s (of Gottingen) Hiftory 
is undoubtedly a moft elaborate work on 
that fubje&t, filled with new refearches - 
and ftriking parallels of antient and mo- 
dexn philofophy. This volome contains 
the xi—xiv. fections; on the philofophy 
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