60 Retr ofpedt of German Liter ature.—Phyfics, Chemifiry, eofg, 
&c.’—Introduction to the beft Mode of 
forming the Galvanic Pile, and tie ap- 
plication thereof to the Cure of various 
Difeafes.” Marrewns gave us an  Ab- 
bildung und Befchretbung einer bequemen 
in der Rocktafche tragbaren Voltaifchen 
Saule,”"—being a Defcription and Plate 
of a very convenient portable Voltaic 
Pile, and Inftrudtions for applying Gal- 
vanifm to the Cure of Difeafes. A Count 
STERNBERG delcribed **Galvanifche Ver- 
fuche in mehrera Krankherien,’°—Trials 
of Galvanifm in the Cure of many Di- 
feafes, efpecially Hardnefs of Hearing 
and Deafnefs. Moft of thefe trials were 
attended with the defired fuccefs. But on 
the contrary, ESCHKE, director of an in- 
ftitute for the in@ruétion of deaf and 
_ dumb perfons, gave ‘*an Account of 
Galvanic Experiments on fome of his 
Pupils,” which proved abortive from the 
improper Mode of conduéting them. 
Befides thefe original works, there ap- 
peared a travflarion by NAsseE, of ‘ Vol- 
ta’s Writings on Eleétricity and Galva- 
nifm; and a knowledge of all new difco- 
veries and experiments on Galvanifm and 
ether paris of phyfics made in France, 
Italy, &c. was quickly communicated 
through the medium of the Journals of 
Pfaff and others. T. BERNOUILLI fur- 
nifhed an inftructive colleGiion “on the Lu- 
minous appearance of the Sea 37” CRELL 
continued his valuable ** Annals of Che- 
miftry ;° and SCHERER his “ Chemical 
Journal;”” and whilft TrRomMMspDorFe’s 
«¢ Bibliothek”? went on without interrup- 
tion, a new ‘* Allgemeines Journal cer 
Chemie,””°—General Journal of Chemittry, 
was announced, which will be enriched 
by contributions from KLaAPROTH, 
HERMBSTaDT, SCHERER, 
and GéHLeER. 
TrOMMsDORFEF again inferted a 
Sketch of the neweft Hiftory of Che- 
mitry, in his Pocket-book for Phyficians, 
Chemifts, and Pharmacifts;"” and GoTr- 
LING continues to colledt the laveft difco- 
verics, new-invented inftruments, &c. in 
his ** Pocket-book for Chemifts and Apo- 
thecaries. "= 
' An anonymous author furnifhed a va- 
luable contribution towards the hiftory of 
phyfcs, entitled a fhort ‘*Leitfaden in 
die Kofmologie urd Phyfik der Alten,” 
=Clue to the Cofmology and Phyficks of 
the Ancients, from a Latin original, and 
dedicated to Kant, De Luc, and Reima- 
ter. The laft-mentioned of thefe eminent 
philofophers, who has deferved fo well of 
phyfical {cience, wrote a work ‘* Ucber die 
Bildung des Erdballs, &c,”=-On the 
4 
RICHTER, 
Stru&ture of the Globe, and particularly 
on the Theory of De Luc. 
Among the cultivators of geognofy we 
think BRUNNER, in particular, worthy of 
notice. In his very ufeful ‘* Handbuch 
der Gebirskgunde’’ the mountains are 
not, as by preceding naturalifts, divided 
into primitive, alluvious and volcanic, 
but, according to their external charac- 
ters, into mixed, unmixed, compofites, 
&c. A new ** Handbuch der Mineralo- 
gie,”—Compendium of Mineralogy, in 
which the fyftem of Werner is followed, 
was publifhed by Profeffor Lupwic, of 
Leipzig. The fecond edition of the ** An- 
fangsgrunde der Mineralogie,” by Luc- 
KOW, of Heidelberg, has been enriched 
with all the lateft difcoveries in Minera- 
-logy, fo that it may be confidered as a 
quite new and highly ufeful work.— The 
tranflation of Hauy’s ** Mineralogie,” 
by the celebrated Karsten, Member of 
the Board of Mines -at Berlin, could not 
fail to excite new ardour for the ftudy of 
Cryftallography, which had been early 
ftudied im Germany; and, therefore, 
HausMANn’s ‘* Kryftallographifche 
Beytrige,”—Cryfallographife Contribu- 
tions made their appearance at a very 
propitious time. 
For the ftudents of botany two pro- 
feflors, Bernardi and Schrank, furnifhed 
new *6 Books of Inftruction ;”” that of thé 
jatter is to confift of feveral volumes. 
HOFFMANN, of Gottiiigen, publifhed 4 
third year of his ufeful ‘German Flo- 
ra,’ and an improved edition of the firft 
year. Srurm and SkuuHR likewife con- 
tinued their ** German Floras.”” GRIN- 
DEL gave us a ** Botanifches Tafchens 
buch,’—or Botanical Pocket-book for 
Livonia, Courland, and Efthonia — 
WaLpbsTein and KiTaIBEL continued 
their “‘ Flora Hungarica”? JACQUINs 
of Vienna, and WILDENOW, of Berlin; 
began likewife to publith Defcriptions, in 
the Latin language, of the Botanic Gar- 
dens in thefe two chief cities of Germany. 
Persoon, of Gottingen, furnifhed fome — 
faithiul ** Delineations of Fungi,” accom- 
panied with a Latin text; and WULFEN, 
an accurate obferver, ** Cryptogama A- 
guatica.”"—-** An Account of the Ccz- 
Serva of Great Britain,” was given by 
Mefirs. WEBER and MERE, who in this 
work took Dilling for their guide.— 
Pranx’s ‘ Icones’ Plant. Med.” have 
advanced as far as the feventh ceaturia, 
and the ** Handbuch der Pharmaceutifchen 
Botanik,’’ Manual of Pharmaceutical Bo- 
tany, to the twelfth, Horre, of Ra- 
tifbon, continued his ‘* Botanical Pocket- 
book 
