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than the fmaller ones, and young animals. 
die in it fooner than old ones of the fame 
fpecies—3. When animals, after breath-' 
ing nitrous oxide; are removed from it 
before complete exhauftion has taken 
place, they are capable of being reftored. 
to health under the aftion of atmofpheric 
air—4. Peculiar changes are effected in 
the organs of animals, by the refpiration 
of nitrous oxide. In animals deftroyed 
by it, the arterial blood is purple red, 
. the lungs are covered with purple fpots, 
both the hollow and compact mu(fcles are 
apparently very irritable, and the brain 
is dark coloured—s5. Animals are de- 
ftroyed by the refpiration of mixtures .of 
nitrofis oxide and hydrogene, nearly in 
the fame time 2s by pure nitrous oxide ; 
they are capable of living for a great 
Jeneth of time in nitrous oxide mingled 
- with very minute quantities of oxygene or 
common air. . 
Dr. Garnet has publithed the “ Out- 
lines of-a Courfe of Leétures on Chemif- 
try, delivered at the Royal Inftitution - of 
Great Britain.””. The work. is divided 
into thirty fections, correfponding with 
the fame number of lectures: the Pro- 
feffor, as might be expected from his. ex- 
tenfive knowledge and abundant means 
of information, has taken a wide field of 
enquiry, and fketched the moti recent 
cifcoveries in the fcience on which he 
treats. 
A Tranflation has appeared from 
the French, of a work, intitled ‘“* Elements 
of the Natural Hiftory and Chemical 
Analyfis of Mineral Subftances, for the 
Ule of Central Schools, by Maruurin 
JamEs Brisson’? This work, which 
is principally intended as a text book, is 
correét in iis definitions, clear in its de- 
{criptions, and judicious in its arrange- 
ments: thefe are the chief requifites of 
fuch a work, and ftamp a high value on 
the prefent. . . 
A Tranflation has alfo appeared, in 
two oétavo volumes, from the French of 
Jj. B. Bouv1tton LaGRrancE of * A 
Manual of a Courfeof Chemiltry ; ar, a 
Series of Experiments dnd Illuftrations 
neceflary to form a Complete Courle of 
that Science.”” This work, bya Profef- 
for in the Central Schools of Paris, and in 
the School of Pharmacy, was originally 
undertaken, it feems, for the author’s 
own pupils in the Polytechnic School: 
it contains a great number of feparate in- 
ftructions, dittributed according to the 
method of Fourcroy, and exhibitsa detail 
of various.new experiments which have 
never before been defcribed in any elemen~ 
Monraty Mac, No, 75. 
tary treatife. The tranflation of this 
work, it fhould be obferved, is, in fome 
refpeéts, of fuperior value to its original, 
the plates of the latter being merely out- 
lines, and thofe in the former being accu- 
rate and highly finifhed engravings : two 
n.w plates are alio added, which are not in 
-the original; one delineating the chemical 
charaéters adopted by the French; and 
the other, two different articles of chemi- 
cal apparatus neceflary to illuftrate the de- 
{cription given of tlrem by the author, 
At the end of the fecond volume, the tran- 
flator hes added {ome notes,and tables. 
VOYAGES, TRAVELS, AND TOURS. 
Nothing can more ftrikingly evince the 
truth of the poet’s remark, in that often- 
quoted couplet, 
Ingenuas didiciffe fideliter artes, &&c. 
than the circumftance, fo honourable to 
the learned men of, two hoftile conniries, 
that, while between them all commerce 
and -all intercourfe has been as much as 
pofible impeded, the literary focietics of 
both have not fuffered their peaceful and 
fcientific correfpondence to be interrupted 
by the-din of arms. By order of the 
Conftituent Affembly of France, a voyage 
was performed in the Recherche and Ef. 
perance, fhips, of war, during the years 
1791, 179%, 1793, and 1794, under the 
command of Rear-admiral Bruix d’En- 
trecafteaux,in fearch of the unfortunate La 
Péroufe and his companions ; through the 
mediation of Sir Jofeph Banks, the papers 
which contained an account of the voyage, 
and which had fallen into the hands of the 
Englifh by means of a cruifer, were re- 
mitted to the French Governinent, in 
confequence of which they were drawn up 
in the fhape of a Narrative by M. LapiL- 
LARDIERRE, a Correfpondent of the Aca- 
demy of Sciences at Paris, a Member of 
the Society of Natural Hiftory, and one 
of the Naturalifts attached to the Expedi- 
tion. Iwo ‘Tranflations have appeared 
in the Englifh language of the Narrative 
of M. Labillardierre, one publifhed_ by 
Mr. Stockdale, and the other by Mr. De- 
brett : each is illuftrated by many eet 
ings, and a chart exhibiting the tracks of 
the fhips: it is generally acknowledged, 
we believe, that, as the embelli/aments of 
Mr. Debrett far exceed thofe cf the rival 
editor, fo the franflation of Mr. Stockdale 
is fuperior to the other in elegance and fi~ 
delity. This expedition was, in every 
refpeét, a moft unfuccefsful and.a molt. 
uncommon one: the fcientific men who 
attended it were extremely ill-accommo- 
dated, and the officers of the expedition 
4H had 
