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fatal than fummer and autumn, and the 
proportion of deaths in {pring and fum- 
mer is about four and a half to feven. A 
number of other valuable ftatiftical obfer-. 
vations are added, which render this work 
highly worthy of attention. : 
Mifs EpGEWORTH’s excellent work on 
Practical Education, which has been tranf- 
lated into French, by M. Charles Piétet 
of Geneva, has been received in France 
with that attention which it fo highly me- 
yits; and a fecond edition of it is publifh- 
ing, the fir having been exhaufted in a 
very fhort time. 
The Lyceum of Touloufe has received 
from C. ViDAL, an affociate to its body, 
and an induftrious and able aftronomer, a 
very important Memoir, containing a ca- 
talocue of 838 auitral flars, from the fifth 
to the feventh magnitude inclufive. Every 
one has been obferved three times, and 
all ace reduced to a mean pofition, regard 
being had to the effect of refraction, the 
aberration of light, and the nutation of the 
earth’s axis. “The mean polition of ali 
thefe ftars has been calculated to a com- 
mon period, namely Jan. 31, 1798, the 
equation and preceflion of the equinoxes 
being previoufly allowed for, .What has 
given rife to the conftruétion. of this ca- 
talogue is the difference of latitude be- 
tween Mirepoix, the place of obfervation, 
and Paris. At Mirepoix nearly fix de- 
“grees of the heavens fouthwards may be 
feen more than at Paris,fothatC. LALANDE, 
and his nephew C. Francois LaLanpDt, 
in their grand work of completing a ca- 
talogue of 48,000 ftars, have engaged C. 
Vidal.to draw a catalogue of the aufral 
ftars, which he has executed with great 
fuccefs and admirable precifion. From the 
favourable fituation of the obfervatory at 
Airepoix, which is under one of the purett 
and. moft ferene atmofpheres in the whole 
republic, aud from the poffeffion of the 
bet infrauments in all the South ef France, 
C. Vidal has been able to corre& the ta- 
bles of refra€tion hitherto ufed. He fixes 
them as foliows:, At 2° 15’ of height, 
the refraGiion is 15’ 377; at 4°%.45° it is 
o! 41”; at8? it is 6' 18"; and at 102 15” 
it is 5’ 20 
The three CoNsuLs, the minifters of 
the interior and.for fereign affairs, C. 
RoEDERER,FRancois,é&c. and Mefdames 
DusocaGeE and Fanni BeauuHaRNois 
have received diplomas as honorary affo- 
ciates of the Athenzeum of Lyons. 
C. Van Noorven, phyfician of Rot- 
terdam, writes to the Philomathic Society, 
that a furgeon, lately arrived from Suri- 
nam, informs him that the breac-fruit- 
Literary and Philofepbical Intelligence, 
[ March x, 
tree has fucceeded there admirably, ant 
that there are now plantations of it which 
bear beyond all expectation, and furnifh 
in the country a bread equal in goodnefs 
towheaten. To prepare it, the fruit is cut 
in flices and dried in the fun, it is then 
pounded, and the flour thus prepared will 
rife with leaven like wheat-flour, and will. 
‘keep a long time. 
The National Inftitute has lately filled 
up the vacancy in the department of bo- 
tany and vegetable phyfics, made by the: 
death of. L’Heritier. The majority of 
votes were in favour of Labillardiere, a 
naturalift well known by his travels, and 
the acquifitions which he has made for the 
Mufeum of Natural Hiftory.. He has in 
confequence been proclaimed a Member of 
the National Inftitute. — . se 
The lofs which is at times fuftained by 
epizootic diftempers among cattle is often 
immenfe. M. AuBERT WiLL, profeffor 
of veterinary medicine at Ingoldfiadt, com- 
putes the Jofs of the eletorate of Bavaria 
alone by thefe diftempers, from 1795 to 
1798, to amount to 34,875 horned caitle, 
ot the value of fix millions of livres, 
French money, independent of. the almoft 
incalculable lofs in milk, cheefe, butter, 
and manure, and the general check which 
it mufk give to almoft all agricultural ope- 
rations. 
The pefthumous works of FLorian, 
lately publithed at Paris, contain (befides 
his life written by JAUFFRET) his fpeech 
on his reception in the academy; feveral 
new fables, which may be read with plea- 
fure even after La Fontaine and Nivernois ; 
a new paftoral romance, not uaworthy of 
the author of Galatea; anda poem, entitled ~ 
WilliamT ell; or ,the Deliveryof-Sitzerland, 
in profe,and in four books, but very inferior 
to hjs former publications, which is a me- 
lancholy: proof of the difficulties under 
which he laboured, and the depreffion — 
produced. on his mind by imprifenment 
and terrors, which made him forget what 
he owed to his own charaéter, and flatter 
his perlecutors. 
Citizens \Izaper and VeRNeT have 
juit exhibited a picture reprefenting one of 
the parades which take place in the Tuil- 
leries every. quintidi in the palace-court. 
The principal figures are the Firfi Con- 
ful, furrounded with his état-major, and 
with feveral generals. The piéture is a 
metre, forty inches, in height, and long ia 
proportion. Thirty of the leading figures 
are on horfeback, and they are all por- 
traits. The horfes are by Vernet, and in 
an excellent fiyle. 
The Mufeum of Natural Hiftory has 
received 
