1802.} 
contruction, and dimenfions of the pyra- 
mids, and the aftronomical fituation of 
thofe monuments. This collestion will 
likewife contain,. under the name of their 
refpective authors, memoirs, defigns, and 
inftruétive notes connected with the agri- 
culture, the commerce, the arts, and, in 
general, the civil ftate of Egypt. The 
works written on objects of natural hiftory, 
will be accompanied with defignis or paint- 
ings which reprefent thofe objects. The 
incroduétory difcourfe will add to the in- 
tereft of this colleétion, by preferving in 
it that principle of .unity which is fo ef- 
fential to the produétions of the arts; it 
will prefent a curfory view of the general 
- refults of the ,obfervations—will particu- 
larly announce the refpeétive authors, and 
the circumittances under which they were 
made. As this introductory difcourfe 
will be, in fome meafure, a literary hif- 
tory of the expedition to Egypt, and as 
the author will be expeéted to imitate the 
-firft Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences 
at Paris, which exhibit a remarkable 
model with refpeét to elegant perfpicui- 
ty of flyle in this kind of writing, the 
"choice of the Editor will depend on the 
Auffreges of all thofe who, are effentially 
concerned in the improvement of the 
work. , 
Citizen Georrroy, Profeffor of Zoo- 
logy in the Mufeum of Natural Hiftory at 
Paris, has. lately arrived “from Egypt. 
He has left at Marfeilles a number of 
chefts, containing a valuable collegtion of 
minerals, of plants, and of birds, which 
he has collected during his voyage. Thefe 
are expected fhortly to arrive at Paris. 
Literary Intelligence from Suseden.— 
As two.men of learning, and warm 
friends and proteftors of the arts and 
iciences, M. voN EHRENHEIM, Prefi- 
dent of the Chancery, and M. Ziser, 
Court-chancellor, are at the head of the 
Swedith Miniftry, we may-confidently ex- 
pect the happieft confeyuences from their 
attenjion to the department of public in- 
ftruction, the fuperintendance of which is 
committed to them by virtue. of their 
ofice. The King has lately givea ftriking 
proofs of patronage of the {ciences. The 
academical edifice belonging to the Uni- 
verlity of Aébo, in Finland being too 
fall, and ina ruinous condition; his Ma- 
- jelly has affigned funds for the conftruc-. 
tion of a new large quadrangular build- 
ing, which will contain all the fchools, 
confiftories, libraries, colleétions of na- 
tural curiofities, &c, The archite&, Gjors. 
well, bas given ina plan of it, which has 
received the royalapprobation. TheUni- 
MoNnTHLY Mag, No. 85. 
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verfity of Upfala, andthe Profeffors, had, 
according to the ancient ftatutes, cdnfi- 
derable funds and falaries for the age in 
which it was eftablifhed; but they were 
found very inadequate to the increaied ex- 
pences of modern times. The King has 
therefore ordered a fuitable addition to be 
made to the falaries of the Profeffors and 
inferior officers belonging to the univerfity, — 
In the Palace of Drotningholm, a cabinet 
of natural curiofities had been formed by 
Queen Louifa Ulrica, and contained the 
colleGtions of Haflelquift and Solander, 
difciples of the great Linné, and of other 
Swedith naturalifts and travellers: this 
cabinet has been préfented by the King to 
the Steckholm Academy of Sciences. ‘he 
‘new keeper of the mufeum, M. von 
Quenfel, a very worthy. and diligent man, 
is now incorporating it with the natu- 
raliftic treafures before belonging to the 
academy, and is to make a catalogue of 
the whole, arranged according to a proper 
clafification. TheKing of Sweden laft win- 
ter affigned 5000 rix-dollars to defray the 
expences of meafuring a degree of latitude 
in the northern parts of his kingdom, in 
order to afcertain the true figure of the 
earth. I‘wo members of the Academy 
of Sciences, M. M. Orwerpem and 
SWANEERG were appointed to execute this 
important work. To the lovers of na- 
tural ‘hiftory it will be a moft agreeable 
piece of intelligence, that the MSS. left by 
the Swedith naturalift Lofling, who died in 
South America in 1756, have been found, 
and are publifhing at Madrid by M. Ca- 
vanilles, Direétor of the Royal Botanic 
Garden. M. Aurivillius, Librarian to 
the Univerfity of Upfala, is giving us a 
Catalogue of the Library under his care, 
and has edited the eighth part of the late 
M. Warmholze’s Bibliotheca Hifforica Sue- 
gothica. The feven preceding parts were 
publifhed by M. Gjorwell, the King’s 
Librarian. The MS. of this excellent 
work, written with the author’s own 
hand, confifts of fifteen volumes fo- 
lio. 
Ini a room belonging to the ancient 
Academy of Sciences at Paris, there has 
been lately found a roll of linen, divided 
into 1g {quares, which contain, exch of 
them, a text in Cufive, or ancient Egyp- 
tian characters ; each {quare has on the 
top fome figure, fuppofed to be Egyptian, 
the explanation of which is probably con- 
tained in the writing. The National In- 
ftitute has given orders to have them en- 
graved and publifhed, under the direétion 
of the Citizens Camus and Lanaues, for 
the fake of fuch among the literati as 
Na , might 
