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On the rf of July, 1802, will be pub- 
Ithed the firft Number of the Church- 
man’s Memorial: being a Biographical 
and Hiftorical Account of thofe Divines 
and other Perfons who were deprived of 
their Preferments and Situations, for their 
Conformity to the Church of England, 
during fhe Civil War; with an Introduc- 
tion, containing a View of the Progrefs of 
Puritanifm from the Reformation to 1641. 
The work is to be completed in twelve 
numbers. 
A pamphlet, intitled <* An Addrefs to 
the Independent Freeholders of the Coun- 
ty of Suffolk on the enfuing EleGtion, by 
2 Suffolk Freeholder,”’ is in the prefs, and 
will foon be publifhed. 
The Society for the Encouragement of 
Arts, Manufa€tures, and Commerce, have 
adjudged to Mr. Joon Pater, of Max- 
tock, Warwickfhire, the filver medal, for 
the communication of a method of harveft- 
ing corn in wet weather. The method 
adopted by Mr. Palmer, during an ex- 
tremely rainy feafon, was the following :— 
He colleéted as many men as were necef- 
fary for the purpofe, and caufed a part of 
them to cut the corn inthe common me- 
thod with fickles, and bind it into fheaves : 
he employed others to houfe and thrafh it. 
‘The next morning it was winnowed, and 
dried in a malt-kiln. A timber-ftove or 
a hop-kiln will anfwer the fame purpofe, 
and the extra-expence of his method of 
harvefting corn he eftimates at nine fhil- 
lings anacre, viz. five fhilllngs per acre 
for drying, and four fhillings for the extra- 
trouble of thrafhing it. When the advan- 
tage of getting in an acre of wheat per 
day, in rainy feafons, at fo {mall an addi- 
tional expence, is confidered, there can be 
but little doubt refpecting its utility, efpe- 
cially as it is probable the men en- 
gaged in the bufinefs could not at that 
time be otherwile employed. 
On the 26th of June will appear the 
firt Number of an Abridgement of that 
moft ufeful publication, the Philofophical 
‘Tranfactions of the Royal Society, from 
its Inftivution to tne prefent Time. In 
the Introduéticn will be given a fhort hif- 
torical account of the inftitution and the 
regulations of the fociety. It is well 
known, that no Abridgement of thefe 
Tranfactions has been made for nearly 
fifiy years. 
The expedition with which the upper- 
Jeathers of fhoes are tanned by wafhing 
them in lime-water previoufly to the tan- 
ning led M. Merst GuiiLor to ima- 
gine, that a combination was formed be- 
tween the tan and the lime contained in 
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the fkin, independently of the combina- 
tion of the tan with the gelatinous fub- 
ftance. Hence he prefumes, that the bu- 
finefs would be accelerated, if, after hav- 
ing wafhed and finifhed the leathers with _ 
lime-water, they were to be fwelled in 
water in which bark, once ufed for tan- 
ning, is infufed, as the fmall quantity of 
tan diffolved in this water would combine 
with the lime, and, though the operation 
might take more time, yet the probability 
is, that the leather treated in this way 
would be firmer, heavier, and lels perme- 
able to water, than that in which the ful- 
phuric acid is ufed. M. Guillot therefore 
recommends, as fit and important experi- 
ments, rather than as faéts fully eftablifh- 
ed, to afcertain whether, after the fkins 
are fwelled in the infufion of old bark, 
the fabrication would not be accelerated 
by putting them alternately into infuficns” 
of bark and lime water, taking care to 
leave them but a fhorttime in the lime- 
water. 
It has been found in the ccurfe ef a 
number of curious and interefling experi- 
ments made by M. HILDEBRANWY, that 
ammoniac, dijuted with water, does not 
diffolve copper in its metallic ftate, with- 
out the coutaét of vital or atmolpherical 
air, and does not receive from it the 
flighteft fhade of colour; nor, if united 
with carbonic acid, wilh it exhibit any 
ftronger figns of attacking that metal. 
M. Mitton gives, as the refult of 
fome accurate experiments on capillary 
tubes, the following faéts:—1. That, if 
they are plunged into fluids, fuch as wa- 
ter, alcohol, &c. the fluid rifes within 
the tube above the level of the water ; 
and that the elevation is in direét propor- 
tion to the fmalinefs of the tube: 2. if 
they are plunged in mercury, it is depretf- 
fed, and the deprefiion is alfo im direct 
proportion to the {mallne{s of the tube. 
The great fuperiority the Englith had 
attained by the introduction of machinery 
in the manufacturing of cotton, naturally 
excited the envy, and called forth the rival- 
efforts, of the nations on the Continent. 
In France feveral attempts were made 
with various fuccels, till the late war put 
a ficp to them: at prefent there is a 
large cotton-mili at Arpajon, in the de- 
partment of the Seine and Oife, which 
{pins annually about 100,000 pounds of 
cotton, and gives employment to 300 per- 
fons. In Germany toofpinning-machines 
have been tried—at Vienna, Berlin, and 
many Other places: but none of them were 
found completely to anfwer the purpofe. 
Mr. Hausen, who had vifited England 
feveral 
