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covery, obfervation, or work, that fhall 
have been made in aftronomy in, the courfe 
of the year.. The Inftitute has. highly 
applauded thts act of generofity in one of 
3ts members, and ordered its vote of thanks 
to be regiftered in the verbal procefs, and 
appointed commiflaries for each of the 
three clafies, to concert in the next gene- 
yal fitting the means of carrying the de- 
fign into execution. 
The following notice is copied from a 
late Paris Journal :—‘* TheBeard of Lon- 
gitude at its mecting of the 23d of June 
adjudged the premium of 6000 francs, 
which was propofed for the lunar tables, 
to M..Brucsc, an aftronomer at Vienna, 
who has fucceedéd by combining from 3 
to gooo obfervations, and forming tables 
which do not differ 10 feconds from an ac- 
tual obfervation. ‘This is the greateft aid 
with which aftronomy ean furnifh navi- 
_ gation, and nothing more is wanting for 
finding the longitude at fea with the utmoft 
acenracy, The horary tables which I 
publifhed ia 1793, for finding the hour at 
fea, render this part of the calculation fo. 
eafy, that it may be executed by the moft 
joexperienced navigator.” -—-LALANDE. 
In the lait fitting of the Royal Acade- 
my of Sciences of Berlin, the fubjeét of 
Galvanifm occupied much attention.—M. 
Councillor HERHARD has made it appear 
that’ zickel, in contaét with zinck, pro- 
duces the fame effect as filver and copper. 
M. Kiaproru gave fome details on the 
Galvanic eflays made, on a large fcale, by 
34. von Marum, at Harlem, and on his 
counter-experiments with the great elec- 
trifying machine of Teyler. Thele effays 
confirm the theory of Volta onthe iden- 
tity of Galvanifm with the eleétric mat- 
ter. , 
In the Turkifh printing. prefs at Con- 
fiantinople, which was fet up about two 
years ago, under the protection of Sultan 
Selim, there is now printing a Diétionary 
eof the Furkith, Greek, Latin, French, 
aud Perfian languages, in three volumes 
folio. About 200 pages have been al- 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
ready printed. ‘There are, befides, at 
Conftantinople, two Greek  printing- 
ofhces, under the infpection of the Patri- 
arch Neopbylus ; but only church-books 
are printed there. 
Citizen Lancues has colleé&ted certain ~ 
paflages from Arabian authors, which 
prove that Alexandria was not founded, 
but only rebuilt, by Alexander the Great, 
and that before that period there ftood an 
ancient city in the place fince occupied by 
the city of Alexandria. ‘* This city,” 
fays Citizen Langles, “was called Raquoth 
or Raguodah, according to the Arabian 
authors ; but rather Rakhoty, according 
to the Coptic orthography ; a word which 
the Greeks and Latins have converted in- 
to ‘Paxwrns, Rhacotis.’ Citizen Langles — 
endeavours to confirm this opinion, and 
to fupport it by the teftimony of the monu- 
ments found in Egypt. By a very res 
markable coincidence, Citizen OLIViER;- 
at the fight of the catacombs of Alexan- 
dria, conceived the fame idea that the 
Arabian authors had furnifhed to Citizen 
Langles. 
The Department of the Communication 
by Water at Peterfburgh has lately pub- 
lifhed a very beautifully-finifhed Chart of 
the Canals in Ruffia, which contains a 
great part of the latter, namely, all that 
have been formed between the White and 
Black Sea, and between the Baltic and the 
Cafpian, and from which may be feen how 
much has been attempted and done in 
Ruflia forthe promotion of the interior — 
trade, by this very ufeful eftablifhment of 
canalsand fluices, or locks, &c. Amongft 
others, the famous Oginfki canal that 
communicates between the rivers Dnieper 
and Niemen or Meme}, which was begun 
fome years ago by the Poles, and then lay 
neglected, is now already fo far extended, 
that it will be ready in the courfe of this 
year. In the prefent year, a new canal be- 
tween the rivers Somin and Tichwinka, ~ 
eaftward from New Ladoga is begun, and 
will be finifhed, azccoiding to computation, 
in the year 1804. . 
MEDICAL LECTURES FOR 1802. 
HE following Courfes of LeGtures will 
be delivered at the Medical Theatre,St. 
Bartholomew’s Hofpital, during the enfu- 
ing winter: 
On the Theory and Praétice of Medi- 
cine, by Dr. Roperts and Dr. PowELL. 
Clinical Lectures on cafes occurring inthe 
Hofpital willalfo be givenby Dr. ROBERTS. 
On Anatomy and Phyfiology by Mr. 
ABERNETEY. 
On comparative Anatomy and Phyfio- 
logy, by Mr. MacaRTNnEY. 
Oa the Theory and Prattice of Surge- 
ry, by Mr. ABERNETHY. 
On Chemiftry and the Materia Medica, 
by Dr. POWELL. 4. 
On Midwifery, and the Difeafes of Wo- 
men and Children, by Dr. THYNNE.- 
The anatomical leétures will begin on 
the 18 of Oétober at 2. o'clock, and the 
sil other 
