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Varieties, Laterary and Philofophical. [Sepe. 
fhall give the words of the original: 
4 Le do&teur BeEppDoEs eit oecupé en ce 
moment en Angleterre, de recherches 
trés-utiles fur les effets des diverfes 
efpéces de gas dans les maladies. Le 
governement amis deux milles cing cents 
livres fterling a fa difpofition, pour fuivre 
ces experiesces.’” We queftion very much 
whether the Englifh government merit 
the eulogium here beftowed upon_it by 
Cxtizen Fourcray. Thofe by whom 
it is at .prefent adminiftered, have not 
been. very attentive to promote fcience, 
or to reward genius. 
In the programme of prizes propofed by | 
the National Inftitute, tn its public fitting 
of the 15th laft Meffider, one of the fub- 
jets propoted by the clafs of moral and 
political {ciences was thus ftated: What 
are the means on which to found the merals 
of a people? This werd:ng was inaccu- 
rate. The queftion, verbatim, as adopted 
by the inftitute, was this: What are the 
znfiitutions the moft proper on which to found 
the morals of a peopl-? It is of moment 
to thofe who are inclined to treat of this 
interefting quefiion, to know it exactly 
as itis propofed to them. 
A memorial was lately read, at the 
fociety of Natural Hiftory at Paris, on a 
new {pecies of the Molufca. This ani- 
mal, tranfmitted from the ifland of Re- 
unton (Bourbon) bears a frong analogy 
to the flug, the dors, and the patella. 
it is of an elliptic form, covered with a 
large tough fort ef mantle, which com- 
pletely involves the body... This black- 
afh mantle is ftreaked with fwollen veins, 
jarge, knotty, and yellowtth. Under- 
neath appears a flefhy difc, analagous to 
that of flues, and other animals of the 
‘order called Caftropodes. The mouth is 
at the lower part of tne head, which is 
furmounted with two conic fextacula, 
or feelers. This new fpecies has been 
named Phyliida. Its conformation ap- 
proaches the neareft to the anemal of the 
patelia, from which it differs only by the 
pofition of the arus, placed on the head 
in the patella, and onthe fide m this new 
fpecies. 
C. Lauaye, who embarked as gar- 
dener, witha number of naturalifts, on 
board the veffels which failed in fearch of 
La Pevroufe, to take charge of the live 
plants they were to colleé im their voy- 
age, has fet out from the Ifle of France 
with “his cargo, and arrived fafely at 
Rochefort, in the frigate the Cybele. 
This rich cclie€tion confitts of cight great 
chefis, containing about ene hundred feet 
dimenfions of tiecs, or live fhrubs, of 
different {pecies, from, the Indies and the 
South-Sea Iflands; and ten chefts filled 
with feeds, dried plants, and different 
objeéts of natural hiftory. The whole 
are ta be placed in the national mufeu m 
at Paris. Among the live plants, fome 
are very remarkable for their econcmic 
ufes, or for the excellence of their fruits*. 
Two flips, or plants, of a great tree taken 
at Batavia, the leaves of which are good 
for fallad, in tafte refembling the lettuce; 
and three flips, or plants, of the culri- 
vated bread-fruit-tree, from the South- 
Sea Hflands, Artocarpus incifa, Forfter. 
Many plants of this laft tree have beep 
introduced, by LAHAYE, into the HMles of 
France and Bourbon, the inhabitants of 
which are often expofed to a fcarcity of 
grain, Itis propofed to plant one of thefe 
flips in the green-houfe of the mufeum 
of natural hiftory, where, though it may 
not produce fruit, it may vegetate with 
fufficient vigour to furnifh, upon occafion, * 
frefh flips ; and to tranfmit the other twe 
to the province of Cayenne, where the 
wild fpecies, which has been tranfplanted 
there fome years ago, grows very well, 
‘and has already reproduced itfelf by its 
feeds. The culture of fpices has been 
already introduced into that colony. — 
Anew and correct edition of all the 
works of Herverius has been lately 
publifhed- at Paris, by LAROCHE, from 
manufcripts, which had been long be- 
queathed to him by his friend HELVE- 
T1Us, but which it has not been in his 
power to make ufe of fooner. All the 
former editions are faulty and incom~ 
plete. 
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* Such are the Boabah of Senegal, Adamfoe 
nia digitata, Lin,; the Litchi of China, Euphe- 
ria L:tchi, Lin.; tne Courbaril of Cayenne, Hy- 
menea Couréaril, Lin. the Manguier of the In- 
dics, Mangifera Pinnata, Lin.; the Carambol 
of the Moluccas, werrhoa Carambola, Lin.; 
the Nutmeg-tree of the Moluccas, Miriftica Ara- 
matica, Lin.; the Coffignia of the Ifle of France, 
a new kind of plant, defcribed by Commerfon ; 
the Hugenia of the Ifle of France; the Fatidia 
of the Tile of France; the Pepper-plant of Ma« 
labar, Piper Oficinalis,Lin ; the real Ebony-tice 
of the Hfle of France, Diofpires Eburnum, Lin.; 
the Cacao, Broma Cacao, Lin.; the Bibacier of 
Japan, M.pilus Faponica, Lin.; the Raven-fara, 
digathopkillum Reven-fard. Lin.; the Badamier, 
Terminalia Catopha,Lin.; the Guinea-hen-woed, 
of the Ifieof France, Badula; the Sagoutier of 
Amboyna, Calamus Segus, Lin.; the Cocoa- 
tree of the Moluccas, Coces Wucifera, Lin.; the 
‘Tambour-wood of the Ifle of France, «4mbira ; 
the Cytherea of Otahelte, Spondias Citherea; 
the Jaquier, Artacarpus Iacea, Lin.; the Toda- 
lia of the Ifle of France; the Anthirrea of do, 
the Quiviftz of do, and the Nepal loaded with 
live cochineal, 
The 
