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fuccefs, and which render him fo bright 
an ornament to the polytechnical{chool at 
Paris. The celebrated counts DE SA- 
LuCEs, and MicueLotmTi, with the 
abbé pE Catuzo, are fill living, and 
there is no room to doubt that their lu- 
cubrations will in fome meafure indem- 
nify the republic of letters for the lofs it 
has fuftained by their retirement. 
EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS. 
The high reputation which BEcCARIA 
acquired in this branch of fcience, is fufii- 
ciently known. His fucceffors, Lanpbr! 
and VassaLi, have rendered themfelves 
illuftrious by 2 number of learned warks 
in this department, particularly by a 
Treatife on Eleétricity. The cabinet of 
natural philofophy fcarcely admits of im- 
provement, and Turin may juftly claim a 
{uperiority in experimental phyfics. 
CHEMISTRY. 
GioBeERT has long combated the new 
principles of chemiftry. His works, 
which are numerous, bear inconteftable 
evidence to his confummate knowledge 
of the fcience, which ftands indebted to 
him for a much approved acidiometer. 
Doétor BuoNVICINI is indefatigable in 
his refearches for the promotion of che- 
mical knowledge. His laboratory 1s onja 
very extenfive fcale, and he gives private 
Jeétures in this fcience, as the univerfity 
of Turin cannot, as yet, boaft the advan- 
tage of a public profefforfhip for che- 
mifiry. 
NATURAL HISTORY AND BOTANY. 
If Switzerland is proud of its Bauhins, 
France of its. Tournefort, and Sweden 
of the great Linneus, Turin is not lefs 
vain of CHARLES ALLIONI. ‘This ve- 
teran of {cience, who is turned of feventy, 
retains the unimpaired ufe of his excei- 
lent faculties. Like Bonnet, whom he 
ftrongly refembles, he has nearly loft his 
Diner by intenfe ftudy. This defect 
obliges him to employ an emanuenfis. 
His Piedmontefe Flora is defervedly cele- 
brated; and the Tranfactions of the aca- 
demy at Turin have been enriched by a 
number of interefting memoirs from his 
pen, on almoft every fubjeét of natural 
hiftory. 
Dana, profeffor of botany, and doétor 
BeELARDI, the worthy pupil of ALLIONT, 
are entitled to confiderable praife. The 
latter, who has acquired no {mail repu- 
tation by his Appendix to the Piedmontefe 
Flora, 18 at prefent occupied upon a work 
on the crypiogaria. The botanical garden, 
though {mall,contains4coodifferent {pecies 
ef plants. ALLIoNS, whofe indefatigable 
Prefent State. of Literature in Piedmont. 
[ Nov. 
zeal in the caufe of fcience outftrips al 
panegyric, has lately obtained from go- 
vernment the grant of a neighbouring 
Piece of ground, which will be chiefly de- 
voted to the plantation of thofe trees, the 
aétual number of which, at prefent, is but 
fmail. 
MINERALOGY. 
Although this fcience has not attained 
to an equal degree of improvement with - 
botany, # is neverthelefs very generally 
cultivated. Among the moft celebrated 
charaéters in this department, is the che- 
valier NAPIONI, who has lately publithed 
the firfi volume of a work on this {cience, 
in Italian. This firft volume treats of 
lithology, and the mafterly manner in 
which the author has handled his fubjeé, — 
caufes the reader to with, that the publi- 
cation of the two remaining volumes may. 
be accelerated as much as poffible. He 
founds his fyftem upon the phyfiognomy 
and analyfis of minerals. The. mineral 
colleétion belonging to the academy is far 
from being confiderable, it poffeffes, 
however, fome varieties. The cabinet of 
ALLIONI, in particular, is uncommonly 
rich in petrifa€tions. 
MEDICINE. . 
This fcience has lately futtained a very 
fevere lofs inthe deaths of Cigna and Somis. 
The former of thefe gentlemen was one 
of the founders of the academy, and has 
obliged the world with fome learned dif- 
quifitions onphyfiology. A number of me- 
moirs inferted inthe tranfaétions of the 
academy at Turin, fufficiently atteft the 
profound medicinal erudition of the fecond. 
ALLIONI, whofe name is an ornament to 
the whole range of fcience, is the author of 
feveral works on medicine in general, on 
the military fever, the pellagra, &c. &c. 
He propofes fhortly to publifh a new con- 
firmation of the doctrine of BoRDEU and 
FouqveEtT, relative tothe pulfe. Among 
the profeffors of the univerfity, the names 
of Dana and Jutt, profeffors of ana- 
tomy, are in high eftimation. 
“LITERATURE AND FINE ARTS. 
The jufly celebrated hiftorian 
CHARLES -“DeENINA, publifhed,, in 
1792, a new augmented edition-of his 
Revoluzioni d’ Itaha, and his Delle Vicende 
della Literatura. 
The fine arts, being the offspring of © 
Juxury and peace, have, of courfe, felt the 
effeéts of war, and will, no doubt, require 
a confiderable length of time to recover 
their original luftre; as the government is 
not in the capacity of giving them fuffi- 
clent encouragement, 
VINCENZIGs 
