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fain two vegetable-acids, viz. the acetous- 
acid, and the malic-acid. 
M. ScHRoeTER, grand bailiff at Li- 
Hienthal, hes feveraf times obferved the 
new planet Ceres Ferdinandea, and he has 
cammunicated certain refults of his ob- 
fervations to the Re syal Society of Sciences 
at Gottingen. On the sith of January, 
y8o2, M. Harding likewife obferved 
this new planet ina Sat ied ftate of 
436 and 288 times, with his reflector of 
14 feet, and found its dife in a reddifh 
Veht, nebulous, nct terminated, and lar- 
ger than a fatellite of Jupiter. The un- 
favourable weather and ind {pofition were 
the reafon that M. Schroeter coald not 
combine his obfervations with thole of M, 
Harding, till the 25th of January. On 
that day, with the fame magnifying, and 
by the fame refieStor, the dic of Ceres ap- 
peared to M. Schroeter under the per'ely 
round form of a planet, without fcintilla- 
tion, and for that time in a light not red- 
dith, but perfe@tly white; it was exactly 
terminated, and every way fimilar to that 
of the planet Herfchel ; but 1t was in- 
clof-d in a nebulokty like that of a comet, 
very narrow, waich completely environed 
it, and which made a ftrong contrat with 
éhe cxaét menner in which it was termi- 
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been made DY M. 
nated. With refpeét to this fimgular tere 
mination, the new planet, in fome meafure; 
refembled ‘the tomet’ of 1799, defcribed 
in the third volume of the Memoirs of 
M. Schroeter; only that is dife appeared 
clearer aad more dift.nct, and its atmof- 
pherical nebulofity was ekerediely naivow. 
AM. Schroeter, on the tame night, by means 
of a microfeope, with a magnifying of 
288 of his reficétor, found the diameter 
of the difc exactly terminated, 17315, and 
tie entire diameter, including the nebulo- 
fity, 24514, (M. Harding, 2 "330) 3 the 
Pigbt afcenfion was at 1h. 35%, 185° 19! 
50”, the north declination 11° 54/43". 
the time of the following oblervations, the 
planet appeared aiways fometimes more, 
fometimes lels, nebulous, and it no longer 
appeased exactly terminited as betore; fo 
that iis afpedt jometimes refembled the pla. 
netai ry nebulniity near ¥ of Aquarius. Its 
winte lreht varied on the 26th to a blur; 
but on the 28th and 318 of January, wit 
the fame magnifying of the reflector, it 
approacied to a reddifh colour. Qn the 
26th a January, the apparent diameter 
was a Pars ; onthe 28th 2 793; 
grit, 2” 930. Exclufive cf thete determi- 
nations, the fcllowiag vblervations | have 
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Mean Apparent Apparent . 
: ~ "Time Right Afcenfier| Declination. 
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—_-,_— So 
Tt is atruth generaily admitted, that 
the bones of animals contain a fubffance 
effentially nutritive ; but unto the prefent 
time th's truth bas added nothing to our 
modes.of procuring aliment- im common 
ule, bones have not the leis been an ar icle 
of lofs in our. public and private economy. 
Pak:n, who wifhed to-extraét this nutri- 
tive fubftance, conceived the idea of the 
digefter, whch bears bis name. Some 
ingenious men have endeavoured to bring 
that machine to perfeftion ; i but it fill ree 
mains only am apparatus~of phyfics ; itis 
by much too complicated : to ‘be adopted 
fer domeftic purpefes... Since Papin, 
Meffis. Prout, Darcet, Pelietier, and 
o-her f{etentific characters In France, have 
attempted to obrain the jelly of bon-s by 
more fimple methods ; but th¢ir labours 
Jie buried-.in large fcientific .colleétions, 
and alimentary economy has not Ritherte 
made ulé is thofe fortunate - cileoverics 
thaz_fcience had made. Citizea CapeT 
Dé Vaux, Superintendant of the Milt. 
tary Hofpital of Paris, &c. having long 
turned his thoughts to the enormous watte 
that is mace of bones, and on the means. 
of am-lturating the fubfiftence of the indi- 
gent claffes, the fick poor, &c. gives it ag 
his opinion, that the only method to ex- 
tradét, with. eafe, the nutritive fubftance 
from bones, is to pulverile them. The 
auihor has made his experiments and ob- 
fervations the fubjeét of a Memoir which 
he has lately publifhed. In this he ac- 
knowledges himfcif indebted to the deg 
tor the idea of pulverization. He further 
obferves, that one pound of benes will 
fernifh as much broth as fix 
the broth of meat. He likewile pronounces 
this branch of economy pregnant with va- 
igable refources to final! families in towns, 
(Sept. 1). 
aa 
on the’ 
pounds of | 
meat, and that the broth of bones, confi- _ 
dered as anarticle of diet, is preferable to 
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