680 Retrofpe of German Literature.—Phyfics, Chemiftry, Se. 
a German and French Treatife a newly 
difcovered worm of this kind, which he 
has denominated Bicorne rude. 
Befides thefe original works, the lift 
of which we might confiderably in- 
creafe, there were feveral important 
tranflations from theEngilifh andFrench, 
and fome of the Hiftorical and Biblio- 
graphical kind? of the latter we fhall 
here only notice ** Das National Mu- 
feum der Naturgefchichte zu Paris, 
von feinem erften Urfprunge, &c.” 
(Hiftory of the National Mufeum of 
Natural Hiftory, at Paris, from its Ori- 
gin to the Prefent Time), by Profeffor 
FISCHER, of Mentz, well known in 
Germany as the able tranflator of his 
friend Cuvier’s Comparative Anatomy ; 
and the fecond volume of the “ Reper- 
torium Commentationum a Societati- 
bus literartis editarum,” by Profeffor 
Reuss, librarian to the Univerfity of 
Gottingen, comprehending Botany, 
and Mineralogy, and forming a whole 
with the firft volume, which records 
what relates te Zoology and Natural 
Hiitory in general. 
Of the publications,which, befidesthe 
hiftory, treat ofthe economicaland tech- 
nological ufes of the produstions of Na- 
ture, the following are deferving of no- 
tice: ** Briefe Naturhiftorifchen, phyfi- 
fchen und ckonomifchenInnhalts,”(Let- 
terson fubjecéts of Natural Hiftory, Phy- 
fics, and Economy), by Prof. ScHrank, 
of Landfhut, who likewife gavea conti- 
nuation of his ‘Fauna Boica’’: and 
Liproip’s “ Neue Natur und Kuntt- 
Lexicon, (New Lexicon of Nature and 
Art), edited by Funxe, of Deffau, ad- 
vantageoufly known by a Work on Na- 
, tural Hiftory and Technology, which 
has been feveral times reprinted. 
Of the works on chemiitry, natural- 
hiftory,&c. publifhed at the Michaelmas 
Fair, feveral sre deferving of notice. 
The ** Landfhut Leifure-nours ; or, 
Contributions towards the Improve- 
meut of Natural Hiitory,” by Profeffor 
ScHRANK, furnifh additional proofs of 
his indefatigable perfeverance in the 
cultivation of that fcience. 
Kuve, of Berlin, began a * Syf- 
tematifche Ueberficht der Neueften 
Fortfchritte in der Naturgefchichte des 
Thierreichs,”’ (Syftematic View of the 
jatef{ Improvements in the Natural 
Hiftory of the Animal Kingdom)’; a 
work very much wanted, now that the 
ftudy of zoology becomes daily more 
and more extended. 
‘Von Mott publifhed in Latin and 
German, “* Efchara ex Zoophytorum 
f. Phytozoorum Ordine pulcherrimum 
ac Notatu dignifimum Genus,” which | 
is enriched with a new fpecies and illuf — 
trated by copper-plates. 
TECHNOLOGY AND COMMERCE ~ 
Are treated of conjointly in ieveral 
Journals. The moit ‘efteemed. of 
thefe are the ‘* Journal fur Fabrik, 
Manufaktur und Handlung, (Journal ~ 
for Manufactures “and .Commerce), 
which has been publifhed without in- 
terruption at Leipzig fince the year 
1791; the ‘* Zeitung fur Kaufleute, 
Fabricanten, u.{.w. (Journal for Mer- 
chants, Manufacturers, &c.) begun’ by 
HitpT of Gotha in the year 1784; and 
the ‘““Handlungszeitung,”* of Nurnberg, 
which has been continued for the laft 
nine years. But however well thefe 
Journals, BuscHEns ‘* Aimanach der 
Fort{chritte Endeckungen und Erfin- 
dungen”’ (Almanack of the Progrefs of 
Difcoveries.and Inventions), and feve- 
ral chemical collections might ferve for 
announcing new inventions ; other cole 
leétions were begun for the purpofe of 
giving more copious and minute infor- 
mation relative to the moft important 
of them. Thus two literati, already 
advantageoully known by {everal pro- | 
ductions on chemiftry and mechanics, 
undertook, the former a ‘* Kunft-Ma- 
gazin der Mechanik und Technifchen 
Chemie, (Magazine of Mechanics and 
Technical Chemiftry), and the latter 
a ** Neues Repertorium der Vorzliglich- 
iten und Neueften Erfindungen und 
Verbeflerungen zum Behufeder Kinfte, 
&c.” (Repertory of the moft impor- 
tant Inventions and Improvements in 
Arts, Manufactures, &c.). 
BaUMGZRTNER, bookfeller in Leip- 
zig, furnifhed a ** Magazin aller neuen 
Erfindungen, (Magazine of all new 
Inventions); various books of pat— _ 
terns and defigns for artificers, &c, and 
feveral feparate diifertations, part of 
them reprinted from his ‘* Magazine 
of Inventions) on fingle trades ; as for 
inftance, on baking, diftilling, paper- 
making and bleaching, according to 
Chaptal’s method. Other bookfellers 
have publifhed in Leipzig, the great 
mart of German Literature, or at other 
places, various technological works, of 
which we fhall notice a few, viz. EisE-- 
LEN’s very ufeful ‘* Anleitung zum 
Ziegelbrennen mit Torf, (Inftru€tions 
for Burning Bricks with Turf): Baron 
Von MEITINGER’s *‘ Voilftgndige Ab- 
handlung itiber die ~Lohgarberey 
(Treatife on the Art of Tanning) in 
which he gives initructions how to ufe_ 
a ftrong extract cf tan combined with 
a little alum; and the *§ is 
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