1801.] 
but the botanifts have hitherto only formed 
conjectures as to the fpecies and name of 
the tree which produces it. 
The Minifter of the Interior has lately 
eftablifhed a particular workthop of Mo/aic, 
in.the feminary appropriated to the infti- 
tution of the deaf and dumb. ‘Ten of 
thofe unfortunate children, fele€ted from 
among thofe who evince the ftrongeft in- 
clination for defign, are to be exercifed 
under the eye of a fkilful mafter, Citizen 
BELLONI, a Roman, inan art almoft un- 
known in France. It is well known that 
the manufacture of Mofaic at Rome pro- 
duced very confiderable benefits to that 
city, and employed ufefully many hun- 
dreds of hands; and in Paris it will pro- 
bably revive a talte for thofe paintings, 
which never grow pale, and are never 
obliterated. 
Among the trees and fhrabs which have 
been naturalized of late years in the en- 
virons of Paris, are the following :—the 
Ariftotelia Maqui, a fhrub originally from 
Chili, which bears berries of which the 
inhabitants of thofe countries make a be- 
verage, which ferves them for wine; the 
nut-tree of Byzantium, which forms a tree 
of moderate tize, and produces much frujt; 
the Eucalyptus, of New Caledonia; the 
Paniculated Koelreuteria, of the North of 
Afia ; the Chryfanthemum of India, which 
throws out a profufion of its beautiful 
purple flowers towards the end of autumn, 
cultivated in all the gardens dnd on the 
crofs-ways in the interior of the cities ; 
the beautiful Fuchfia, of Magellan; the 
Philliroid Fontanefia, brought from Syria; 
the Globofe Budleja, of North America ; 
as likewife the Magnolia Glauca and Mag- 
nolia Tripetala; three beautiful fpecies of 
lime-trees, two of which have {filver-co- 
Joured leaves; and as many fpecies of 
oaks. Many fpecies of pear-trees, apple- 
trees, lote, or nettle-trees, medlars, and 
cornel-trees, the Plaqueminier of Japan; 
the Aucuba, and the fingular Ginkgo Bi- 
loba, which forms a large tree producing 
nuts, which the Japaneie ferve on their 
tables for a deffert; the precocious Caly- 
canthus, which gives large and beautiful 
fiowers in the middle of winter; the Holm, 
or Holyoak, of Madeira, opaque and pri- 
noid, with myrtle-leaves, and the, Holy- 
oak of Canada; the large Chelfnut-tree, 
with yellow flowers, and alfo that with 
ears. A great number of cytifules, furze 
or broom-fhrubs, robinias, &c. 
Citizens ALiBERT, Du PrestT, Rony, 
and RicHeRAND, have been named to 
inoculate gratuitoufly, with the cow-pox, 
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the indigent at Paris, in the name of the 
Medical Society of Emulation. 
The experiment. of caftration has been 
lately performed at Paris on one of the 
young lions whelped three or four months 
ago, at the Mufeum of Natural Hiftory. 
That one was fele&ted which announced 
the ftrongeft chara&ter of ferocity. This, 
it is prefumed, was the firft time that a 
fimilar operation was performed on an ani- 
mal of this kind. 
‘There are, at prefent, to be feen inthe 
garden of plants, at Paris, the two fu- 
perb tygers, male and female, the leopard, 
the panther, and the hyzena, which came 
from the menagerie of Tippoo Saib. 
Few events have, in Germany, made fo 
much noife as Count F.R. LEOPOLD Von 
STOLBERG’s* public tranfition from the 
Proteftant to the Roman Catholic religion. 
He has refigned his office of Schirmvogt 
to a Proteftant Abbey, and repaired, with 
his wife and children, to Munfter, where 
he refides in a gloomy manfion, built in 
the form of a cloifter, and is inacceffible 
to every one. 3 ) 
The Ichthyology of the lately deceafed 
Jewifh phyfician BLocu, of Berlin, in 54 
numbers, |. 8vo. is the moft extenfive and 
coftly werk that has hitherto appeared on 
that part of natural hiftory. It is to be 
continued by Profeflor SCHNEIDER, of 
Frankfurt; and a tranflation has been 
publified at Paris, in which many parts 
have been new-modelled ; as for inftance, 
the fifhes are arranged according to the 
Linnean fyftem: there are, likewife, fome 
additions, and the plates are redaced to a 
much fmaller fcale. The title is, « Hif- 
toire Naturelle des Poiffons, avec les 
Figures deffingées d’aprés Nature, pat 
Bloch, Ouvrage claffé par Ordres, Genres, 
et Efpeces, d’aprés le Syftéme de Linné, 
avec les Caraétéres generiques; par René 
Richard Caftel, 10 vols. in 18mo. and 160 
copper-plates. 
Mr. HuFretanp, the celebrated author 
of the Artof ProlongingLife, has leftJena, 
and gone to Berlin, where he is appointed 
in the room of Dr. SELLEN, fecond Di- 
rector of the Collegium Medico-chirurgicumt, 
with the title and rank. of Privy-council- 
lor. He has likewife been nominated 
Member in ordinary of the Royal Acade- 
my of Sciences, in the phyfical clafs, with 
a falary of 400 rix-dollars a year. 
A collection of the moft interefting ftate- 
papers, and other writings, ferving to 
* Author of ¢¢ Travels in Italy,” whick 
were tranflated into Englith by Mr, Holcroft. 
elucidate 
