r801.] 
ing too foon. By this means the buds co 
not fhoot forth until they have no longer 
any thing to fear from the attacks of the 
froft, fo frequent during the nights of 
Spring. 
We find in the journal of the celebrated 
HuFetanp, who difcharges at prefent 
one of the moft honourable fun&ions at 
Berlin, the refult of certain experiments 
made by M. Motwirz with metallic 
brufhes, ftated to be equal to the needles 
of Dr, PERKINS. 
The fpecific againft fever, lately propo- 
fed by Dr. Reicu, having undergone the 
examination of a commiffion named by his 
Majefty the King of Pruffia, has been pub- 
lifhed by his order, with the ebfervations 
of the faculty of medicine of Berlin. We 
fhall quote a paragraph of it, leaving to 
the medical world the care of appreciating 
its worth: ‘*A cure of the fever can 
only be obtained by introducing and diftri- 
buting equally into the blood a fufficiency 
of acid to re-eftablifh the equilibrium in 
the different conftituent parts of the body, 
which equilibrium is difturbed by the 
fever.” ' 
J. Von MEERMAN, of the Hague, in- 
tends publifhing an important and never 
before printed work of the celebrated 
Huco Grotrius, the MS. of which has 
lately come into his poffeffion. ‘To the 
original Latin will be added a Dutch 
tranflation. “The work contains a ‘‘ Com- 
parifon of the Manners and Character of 
the Athenians, Romans, and Dutch.” 
The A€éroftatice School which was ereét- 
ed at Meudon by the ci-dewant Commit- 
tee of Public Safety in France, has been 
fuppreffed. 
From the Report of the Minifter of the 
Interior in France it appears, that the ex- 
penditure for public inftruction amounts 
to ten millions of francs; the central 
fchools require five millions; the com- 
munal fchools three millions ; the fpecial 
fchools 1,306,600; the national inftitute 
266,000. 
The number of ftudents at the Univer- 
fity of Abo, in Sweden, in the firft half 
of laft year was 214. When the King 
vifited that place, he laid the firft ftone at 
a new edifice for the univerfity. 
he King of Pruffia has granted 800 
rix-dollars towards augmenting the ye 
Library at Berlin. 
The Ruffian Counfellor of State, Von 
RomMowsky, of whom we publithed a 
biographical memoir in a preceding vo- 
lame of our Magazine, has been appointed 
Vice-prefident of the Peterfburg Academy 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
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of Sciences, witha falary of 1000 ru- 
bles. 
In ee of a decree, enacting 
that every public inftitution in France 
fhould have an adminiftrator to fuperintend 
the revenues, expenditure, &c. the follow- 
ing learned men and artifts were appointed 
to that office, viz. Ameilhon, Admini- 
ftrator of the Library of the Arfenal; 
Leblond, of the Library des Quatre- 
nations; Cotte, of the Library of the 
Pantheon; Capperonier, of the National 
Library; Sage, of the Cabinet of Minerals 
inthe Mint; De Lambre, ‘of the Board 
cf Longitude; ‘Thouret, of the Ecole de 
Médecine; Juffieu, of the Mufeum of Na- 
tural Hiftory; Foubert, of the Central 
Mufeum of the Arts; Gibelin, of the 
Mufeum of the Ecole Frangaife, at Ver- 
failles; Sarréte, of the Confervatory of 
Mufic; Le Comte, of the School of Miint- 
ing; Molard, of the Confervatory of the 
Aris; Broignard, ‘of the Manufacture of 
Seves; Guillamot, of the Manufaéture of 
the Gobelins ; Duviver, of the Soap-ma~ 
nufaéture ; Dambrevil ile, of the Literary 
Depot at the Cordeliers; and Le Fevre 
Gineau, of the Collégze de France. 
- Cit. Crouzer, Dire&tor of the Na- 
tional College at Compiegne, has pre- 
fented to the Chief Conful of France an 
allegorical drawing. In the middle of it 
is a medallion, on which the French Go- 
vernment is reprefented perfonified as Mi- 
werva. Tothe left of the goddefs are feen 
the tombs of the great men who have 
fallen in the defence of their country ; on 
_the right ftands the Temple of Fame, to 
which Minerva ‘leads a boy, who, in a 
martial attitude, {wears upon the grave of 
his father to emulate the deeds of his an- 
ceftors. . Branches of oak, laurel, and 
palm, intermixed with thofe er the cyprefs, 
are wound in the form of a civic crown 
around the medallion. Below is a buft of 
Bonaparte in profile, and at the bottom of 
it the following infeription : s—Les Eleves 
du College du Compidene au Conful Bonaparte 
Nos péres ne font plus: du fein de leurs toim- 
beaux 
Croft, parmi les cyprés, le laurier de Ia 
gloire: 
C’eft le feul bien qui refte aux enfans des 
héros, 
Et nous venons Voffrir au fiis de la Vic~ 
toire. ; 
The Phoca, that fingular amphibious 
animal, which feems to bethe model ac- 
cording to which the ancients reprefented 
the Tritons, the Syrens, &c. is only com~ 
mon in the Northern {eas, andis very 
rarely 
