428 
that it is owing to the multiplicity of the 
titles, that many of the works of Arifto- 
tle, which ftill exift, are thought to be 
Joft.—An extraé&t from this treatife is in- 
ferted in the Gotting. Anzeig. 1800, No. 
S07) Py ZAI: In the meeting on the 
27th of December, Mr. Court-counfellor 
Wrifberg read ‘* Obfervationum: Anato- 
mico-neurologicarum de Nervis Vifcerum 
Abdominalium Partic. II. de Nervls He- 
paticis et Splenicis.—An extract from this 
diflertation may be feen in the Gotting. 
Anzeig. von gel. Sachen, 1801; No. 9; 
p- 81-88. ; 
THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF 
JENA. 
On the 22d of Jaft March this Sete 
held their fecond public meeting for this 
year. The objects which occupied the 
attention of the members prefent, were 
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Review of Niw Mufical Publications. 
the following przlections :—(1) The Di- 
rector of the Society, Mr. Profeflor 
LeENz, opened the meeting with a treatile 
on the Belemnites, in which he difcufled 
the opinions of lithologifts relative to this 
fubject ; and at the fame. time lai, before 
the Society the fuppofed origine: from 
the animal kingdom.—(2) Mr. Panzer 
read a Differtation on Cryttallizations, writ- 
[Dec. I, ; 
ten and fent to the Society by Mr. Miha- | 
tik, of Eperies.—(3) Mr. ScowaBe, 
librarian to the Society, and keeper of 
their Mufeum, read a Report on the pre- 
fent. ftate of the Library and Mufeum, and 
gave notice, that in future they would be 
open twice a ‘week for the ufe of the pub- 
lic.—- The Society has lately publified the 
firft part of their Tranfaétions. The. 
Mufeum, in which their meetings are 
held, is very rich, particularly in Hunga- 
‘rian gold- ores and minerals. 
eae 
REVIEW OF NEW MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
Mufical Game-tables and aah ais for facili- 
tating the: Accquifition of the Elementary Prin- 
* ciples of the Harmonic Science. Invented, and 
dedicated. to the Princes Charlotte, by Aune 
Young. Jl. 7s Prefion. 
BS Ota TABLES and APPaR ATUS, 
the ingenuity and utility of which 
demand our higheft commendation, are of 
too diverfe and elaborare a confiruction to 
admit of our entering into a minute de- 
fcription of their parts ; and, indeed, the 
pamphlet of the Inventrefs, which may 
be had feparately, renders fuch a detail 
from us unneceflary. 
Tt wil! be fufficient for us to fay, that 
the coutrivance confifts of a box, compofed 
of two equal pieces, or frames, united by 
hinges, like backgammon-tables, and a nu- 
merous variety of charaéters, cliiefly formied 
of ivory, reprefenting thofe ufed in mufic, 
and fo correfponding in their conftru€tion 
with the figures and apertures of thie 
tables, that by the help of dice and dice- 
boxes a kind ,of mujfical game may be 
played, highly pleafant and diverting, and 
at the fame time pregnant with {cientific 
infiru€tion. - 
Tie fiyle and fafhion of the whole ap- 
aratus, the idea of which has, we learn; 
been realized at an expence little fhort of 
_eleven. hundred pounds, is elegant and 
“beautiful, and does much honour to Mifs 
Young’s ‘alte : 
fifis tn the happy facility the has produced 
of attaining all the leading rudiments of 
E Y 
but her great praife con- — 
the {cience, and fo fhortening the road te 
mufical knowledge, that more may now , 
be acquired in one week than could be 
learnt in fix months before the invention 
of her Tables. We recommend this fin- 
gular and valuable novelty to the at- 
tention of all practitioners and teachers: 
the progrefs of the former will, by its 
afiiftance, be greatly accelerated, and the 
labour of the latter confiderably eafed. 
The Songs fung by Mrs. Billington in the cele 
brated Opera of the Duenna, with all the 
Graces, Variations, and~Embelli ifhments, ine 
troduced hy her at the Theatres Royal Drury 
Lane and Covent Garden, with an Accontpa- 
niment for the Piano- forte, newly arranged by 
Dre Biifoy.”) ase6d.) 09g Rolfe. 
We are glad to find that the fale of the 
Airs of Mandane, in ARTAXERXES, as 
ornamented by. Mrs. Billington, has been 
fuch as to induce Dr. Bufby alfo to favour 
the public with the embellifhments given - 
by that exquifite performer to the fongs 
of Clara, in tie revived and juftly- admired 
opera of the DuENNA. 
The idea of tranfmitting to paper the’ 
fleeting and evanefcent notes of extempo~’ 
raneous decoration, is as new as it 1s 
happy, and while it gratifies the curiofity 
of the vocal proficient, alfo produces the 
moit improving fubjeéts of fiudy-for the 
young and emulous praétitioner. © 
We have, as far as our recollection — 
would permit, compared the variations in 
thefe fongs with ee given by Mrs. Bil. 
lington, 
