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turn. Confiderations on the comparative 
utility of houfes of induftry in towns, and 
in country parifhes; on the law of fettle- 
ments, remevals, and paffes ; on friendly 
focieties, and on the utility of a national 
board for attending to the concerns of the 
perechial peor, The account of the 
Shrew {bury houfe will be confiderably en- 
Jarged ; and an appendix added, contain- 
ing a detail of feveral recent regulations, 
for the purpofe of effeétually providing for 
economy, and guarding againi wafte, pe- 
culation, and fraud, in the management of 
its internal concerns. 
. The eighth volume of Medical Tra&s 
and Obfervations by Dr. Simmons is in 
the prefs, and will be publifhed in a few 
weeks. 
Dr. GeorGe PeARson (lecturer on 
medicine and chemifiry) has ready for pub- 
lication a new edition, very much im- 
proved, of his New Chemical Nomencla- 
ture, with all the tables that are neceflary 
for a ftudent ; and {uch alterations and ad- 
ditions as are requifite to fhew the ftate 
of chemical fcience to the prefent time. 
Duplicates of the tables are fold with the 
work, to thofe who with to hang them up 
in the ftudy or Jaboratory. 
Mr. BipLaxe hasa poem inthe prefs, 
_to be pubiifhed by fubicription, entitled 
the Semmer’s Eve. 
Early in this month will be publifhed, 
An Enquiry into the Elementary Princi- 
ples of Beauty in the Works of Nature 
and Art; towhich will! be prefixed an In- 
troductory “Difcourfe on Tafte, by W. 
T HoMson, iliuiirated with thirteen plates; 
in quarto. In this work Mr. Themfon 
has controverted fome of the opinions of 
Mr. Burke and oihers, and given proofs 
that he pofiefled a confiderable fthare of 
talte and Jcarning. Some memoirs of him 
will be prefixed. He was one of the few 
learned painters this country had to boaft 
of, and, we belicve, was the oldeft por- 
tyait parter in London. He died at an 
advanced age, foon after this work was 
finifhed from the prefs. 
Mr. W. PeTtHeERr, of Hereford, has in- 
vented fome effential improvements in the 
con{truétion of fhips, and other marine 
veffels. His various models have for their 
objeét to prevent fhips from beicg fo liable 
to upfet, from pitching and rolling, from 
miffing ftays in tackang, and frem running 
on a |ce-fhore. 
Mr. Joun Pearson, furgeon of the 
Lock-Hofpital and A:yium, and of the 
Public Difpenfary, will commence his 
Spring courfe of lectures on the principles 
and practice of furgery, on Monday, Ja- 
Literary and Philofaphical Intelugenee. 
[Jan. 1, 
nuary the zoth, at feven o'clock in the 
evening. 
The following is the procefs for making 
the beft ink, as communicated by an emi- 
nent manufaGiurer of this ufeful article. 
In fix quarts (beer meafure) of clean water; 
either foft or hard, boil, forabout an hour, 
four ounces of the bef Campeachy log- 
wood, chipped very thin acrofs the grain, 
adding from time to time boiling water to 
fupply in part the lofs by evaporation ; 
ftrain the liquor while hot, and fuffer it to 
cool: if the liquor is then fhort of five 
quarts, make it equal to this quantity by 
the further addition of cold water; one 
pound of bruifed blue galls, or twenty 
ounces of the beft common galls, are then 
to be added’; a pafte prepared by triturat- 
ing four ounces of fulphat of iron (green 
vitriol) calcined to whitenefs, half anounce 
of acetite of copper €verdegris) with the 
above decoétion is then to be well incor- 
porated with the mafs, together with three 
ounces of coarfe brown fugar, and fix 
ounces of gum Senegal or Arabic. Ali 
the materials are to be put into a ftone 
bottle of {uch a fize as to half fill it, the 
mouth is to be left open, and the bottle to 
be well fhaken twice er thrice aday. In 
about a fortnight it may be filtered, and 
kept m well ftopped bottles for ufe. The 
only caution requifite isto protect it from 
the froft, by which it woula be confidera- 
bly injured. 
A late experiment of Mr. MusHet’s 
throws confiderable doubt on the fuppofed 
converfion of iron into fteel by means of 
the diamond. Mr. Mubhet had for fome 
time been induced to fuppofe, that at very 
high temperatures crucibles and fimilar 
velfels are penetrable by the carbonaceous 
part of common fuel, rendered volatile by 
an intenfe heat ; in confequence of which 
he enclofed fome iron fhavings in clofed 
double crucibles without a diamond, and 
found that after they had been expofed in 
this fituation for about an hour ina good 
furnace, they were converted into a button 
of fteel, apparently of the fame kind as 
that obtained in the experiment of the 
French chemitts, and which they attributed 
to the combination of the diamond with 
the iron. om 
The Jaft volume of the! Philcfophical 
TranfaGtions contains an important paper 
of Mr. Biacins, relative to the quantity 
of gallic acid and tanning principle found 
in the bark of varionstrees. Thefe two fub- 
ftances were confounded under the general 
name of aftringent principle, till the admi- 
rable experiments of M. Seguin, who firlt 
fhewed the difference between the gallic 
acid, 
