330 
pite tuberculato, elytris teflaceis, fafcia me- 
dia nigra. Length five lines, breadth 
four. 
Citizen CLAVIER will fhortly publith a 
French Tranflation of Herodotus. 
BIE DU BocaGe, who drew the Maps 
for Barthelemy’s Anacharfis, has under- 
taken the geographical part of the work. 
He has already collected excellent mate- 
rials for the plans and maps that are to 
accompany the text. 
In the third number of Defcription des 
Raretés Typographiques, &c. or, Defcrip- 
tion of Typographical Rarities, &c. Ci- 
tizen FiscHER, of Mentz, continues to 
publith the refults of the Bibliographical 
‘Relearches, on which he has been fuccef- 
fively employed for fome years paft, and 
of which fome notice has been already 
taken in this journal. In the fiuft Memoir 
he endeavours to refolve the grand queftion 
relative to the firft Latin Bible of Mentz, 
on which fo much already has been written, 
and which 1o manyamateurs have pretended 
to havein their poffeffion, In the fecondMe- 
moir,C.Fifcher continues bis Obfervations 
on the Difference of the Types employed 
by the firft Prefles of Meniz; and, to 
throw more per{picuity and precifion in‘o 
the fame, he eftablifhes clafles and orders 
among thele types, under which he ar- 
ranges the different works which have 
been hitherto a fubjeét of conteftation fer 
bibliographers. Thefe refearches, which 
come down. to the year 1480, C. Fifcher 
propofes to extend to the year 1520. This 
method of fixing characters, by which 
-every one clafs of types differs trom the 
other, cannot but throw much light on a 
matter fo very obfcure hitherto. In the 
jecond feétion, Citizen Filcher defcribes 
nineteen curious monuments of typograe- 
phy: firft thofe which iffued from the 
prefles of Guttemburg ; afterwards fome 
yare impreflions at Mayence, from. the 
preffes of: Fauft and of Schoeffer; and, 
jaftly, he gives the defcription of a Ger- 
man Almanack, for the year 1483, printed 
on a folio fheet; and likewife that of 
@ rare impreflion, which appeared at 
Rome, and which Citizen Fifcher now has 
in his poffeffion. This work is intitled: 
‘‘ Ovatio Fuce Silui, epi ..Senenfis: coram 
Calixte Papa tertio, de obedientia Frede- 
vice tertii imperatoris,” M.CCCC.LYV, 
in gto. Citizen Fifcher. prelumes that 
this difcourfe came from the prefles of 
Pannary and of Sweinheim. He confi- 
ders this exemplar or copy as a firft edi- 
en, and he thinks that it has pever been 
Literary and Philofaphical Intelligence: 
Bar-- 
[ Jans dy 
reprinted fince, neither feparately, nor in 
the works of /Eneas Silvius. If further 
refearches fhould confirm him in this opi- _ 
nion, he purpofes to give, in the fequel of 
the.work here announced, the defcription 
of that edition. And, laftly, in the 
laft fection, Citizen Fifcher makes us ac- 
quainted with certain rare manufcripts + 
the firft is a church book, written by 
means of letters pierced in metal Jamine 
or plates, fuch as are fold on the Pont 
Neuf at Paris; a very ancient manufeript 
in German, intitled Dze Bibel der alten und 
neuen Ehe; that is to fay, the Bible of 
the Ancient and of the New Marriage. 
This manufcript is adorned with many 
paintings, the fubjeéts of which are taken 
from the Bible, and which Citizen Fifcher 
defcribes in their order. The engravings 
with which this volume is enriched con« 
tain fac-fimiles of the charaéters of the 
Latin Bible of John Guttenburg, others 
of his Donatus, the capitals of thofe twe 
works, and thofe made ule of by Albert 
Pfifter, at Bamberg ; and, laftly, of the 
characters written acrofs metal plates 
pierced through. Thefe engravings of 
the charaéters are executed by Madame 
SCHALCK, at Mayence, whofe talents 
have been long known, and held in efteem, 
Citizen DEGouVAIN has fhewn, as the 
refult of many experiments, that the effi- 
cacy of aromatic vinegar depends much 
more on its acid nature, than on the aro- 
matic fubfances with which it is accom- 
panied. He has manutactured fome, 
which, to be faturated, required from 130 
to 140 parts of potafh, in a thoufand ; 
whereas the ftrongeft before known abforbs 
only 114. Geod wine, combined with 
oxygen, is found, by this ingenious che- 
mift, to make the bett vinegar. 
Citizen PoTEL has difcovered, that ox- 
ygenated muriatic acid gas may be em- 
ployed with the greateft advantage in all 
cafes of afphyxia. Several rats, which 
had been found drowned, being placed 
within the aétion of fome of this gas, were 
fpeedily refufcitated: he repeated the ex- 
periment on the fame rats, and on feveral 
cats, with equal fuccefs; he even made 
fome experiments on himfelf, which were 
crowned with fuccefs. The Academy of 
Dijon has appointed commiffioners to af- 
certain the property of this gas in cafes of 
apparent fudden death. — " 
The sumber of combin&tions in a newly- 
invented lock, by M. J. BerarD, is 
equal to the eightiech “power of 2, oF 
early 17 millions. y 
tae L A new 
