2603.) 
_ In the third number of the Annals of the 
Mufeum of Natural Hiftory lately pub- 
lithed at Paris, is the report of the profef- 
fors. of the mufeum on the colle&tions of 
natural hiftory, brought from Egypt, by 
Citizen E. Georrroy, which report is 
drawn up by Cit. Cuvier, Lamarcn, 
and LacgeprepDs. In this they render the 
juftice to Cit. Geoffroy, to acknowledge 
that, fince thecelebrated Dombey, no voy- 
ager has fo much augmented the zoologi- 
cal cojlection of the. mufeum. ‘This cu- 
rious collection, brought by Citizen Geof- 
froy, contains. animals. of all ages, from 
the oxen Apis & Mnevis, to the crocodile, 
the ichneumon, the ape and the Ibis. 
Then not-a fingle piece is wanting to the 
ancient Ibis, which Citizen Geoftroy has 
drawn from its envelope or covering 3 the 
heads of the mummies which he has col- 
Jeéted, prove, that the wear of the teeth 
is only owing to age and to the diztetic 
regimen. He has collected a new {pecies 
of hare, one of a fox, one of a hedge-hog, 
tour of rats, eleven of bats, and alfo many 
of known {pecies, but which were not to 
be found in the cabinet; he has only 
céllegted a few birds, but a great num- 
ber of reptiles; and his ichthyological 
collection is on the whole extremely valu- 
able. ’ 
Cit. FRaANcors De NEuFCHATEAU, 
member of the Confervative Senate, and 
of the National Inftitute, has lately pub- 
lifhed a treatife at Paris, in the form of 
a letter, on the tree called Le Robinier, 
or the falfe, Acacia, its culture, ufes, &c. 
This tree, he obferves, improperly known 
by the name of falfe Acacia, was brought 
from America by Jean Robin, curator of 
the king’s garden, about the year 1620 ; 
it was quickly perceived that in the courfe 
of ten or twelve years, it would, in very 
barren lands reach the fize of an oak of 
thirty or forty years ftanding ; but it ap- 
pears that the advantage which it prefented 
of putting forth flowers of an agreeable. 
{cent, has hitherto condemned it to be only 
a tree for fhew. This’has been always 
the language of the different focieties of 
agriculture, of the minifterial inftru@ions, 
French and foreign treatiles of gardening, 
&c. &c. In the fpace of ten years, how- 
ever, fays Citizen de NEUFCHATEAU, a 
number of Robiniers, planted in the 
guincunx form, at the diftance of two 
metres from one another, and valued at 
not more than fix francs, had a cutting 
_ or felling werth about 36000 franes the 
hectare (a fpace little more than two 
acres) ; and in the courfe of the laf ten 
years, has had three prunings or top- 
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pings of very confiderable ‘value. .The 
fame trees, planted in the form of hedges, 
and cropped every third year, form anim- 
penctrable inclolure with a very valuable 
produce. Notwithfianding this, 1 re- 
quires only a flight and meagre, foil. 
In the ifland of Iceland there were two 
bifhopricks, and two Latin f{chools; the 
Danith Government has recently fuppreffed 
one of the bifhapricks, and the Latin 
fchool of Holum; that of Reikevig and 
the bifhoprick of Skalholt are prelerved, 
as being thought fuffiicient for the wants 
of a country fo northern (this, at leaft, 
is apnounced as the pretext)—a country, 
however, where there are always to be 
found forme zealous votaries of learning, 
and a number of young perfons who pro- 
ceed with ardour in the literary career, 
fo glorioufly traced out by their ancet- 
tors. 
Citizen G. Fiscuer, profeffor of na- 
tural hiftory and librarian at Mayence, has 
lately difeovered a new fpecies of Tarfer 
among the mammiferous colleétions of the 
late proieflor Felig ; he admits, with other 
fkilful naturalifts, that it is rather preju- 
dicial than ufeful to multiply the fpecies, 
yet, he obferves, the characters of this 
tarfier are fo very diltinct, that we muft, 
‘of neceffity, confider it as a new fpccies. 
Here follows his defcription of it: ‘* The 
tarfier, with brown paws, four incifive 
upper teeth, fharp; the octer ones very 
fhort, the inteymediate ones very long, 
rather funk in and furnifhed with a lateral 
arret ; two incifive lower teeth,- very 
cloie together at. the point. Citizen Fi- 
{cher gives a very minute anatomical de- 
{cription of an individual tarfier which had 
been preferved in liquor ; his differtation 
is accompanied with two plates ; one re- 
prefents the animal, the other its fkeleton. 
Prejent flate of literature ix Turkey.— 
Some years ago a primting-ofhice was efta- 
olifhed at Confantinople. There are 
eight prefles; and Abdurrheman Efendi, di- 
reCtor of the inflitution, takes care to keep 
them continually employed. The Sultan 
from time to time allots certain fum, to- 
wards the fupport of this printing-office. 
The income of the direftor is derived 
folely from the profits arifing from the 
fale of the books; and he is obliged to pay 
allthe workmen. The office has been re- 
moved from the fwburb Shafker, into the 
fuburh Scutari,where a largeand commedi- 
ous edifice, fituated near the barracks of the 
Janifaries, has been fitted up for the pur- 
pole. The following are the works which 
have hitherto came torth from the prefies 
.of this inftitute :—1, A Pocket Diéio- 
Nary 
