1808.] 
it isrelated of him, that as he travelled 
towards Italy in disguise, he fell sick at an 
inn, and the physicians of the place, ig- 
novant of the quality of their patient, 
proposed to each other to try upon him 
a medicine, the eifects of which had not 
yet been ascertained “ Eucianius evperi= 
mentum in corpore vill,” which words 
being overheard by the professor, meer 
aly operated his cure, without furher me- 
dica! assistance. This eminent scholar, 
who distinguished himself as a commen- 
tator on classic authors, a misceliane- 
ous writer, and a Latin poet, died’ in 
1585, in the 60th year of his age. 
ORIGIN OF GAZETTES. 
Theophrastus Renaudot, a physician of 
Paris, was remark 
lecting news for the amusement of his 
patients, and by those means was one of 
the most fashionable of the faculty. But 
as.a whole city cannot be expected to be 
alilicted with sickness, at the exd of a 
few years he hegan to consider that he 
might increase his profits by publishing 
every week a certain numberof sheets 
which should contain all the intelligence 
from different countries. He obtained a 
licence for this purpose, in 1632. This 
custom had however long betore prevail- 
ed in Venice, where the papers were cal- 
Jed gazettes, from the name of a oe of 
money, wna gazetta, which was paid for 
the privilege of reading them. 
Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
cably industrious in col~’ 
149 
ELECTION OF PROCTORS. 
In the year 1584, the election to this 
important office at Cambridge, was at- 
nded with circuinstances, “which are 
happily unheard of in the recent annals 
of the University, and those who ought 
to have been the most active in keep- 
ing peace, seem co have been foremost 
in promoting the disturbance. It 1s 
recorded, that on Saint Dennis’s eve, 
there was a great company of lawyers 
came to Queen’ s, and divers other houses 
in the night, about ten o'clock, making 
this proclamation: 
‘* How yese, how yese, 
Take hede whome ye make youre proctor, 
For fere of that, that shall cum after, 
Yf ye doe standys he wrong, 
Loke ye, make ye stronge.”” 
On the next night they came to every 
house, and also to the vice-chancellor’s, 
knocking at each, and desiring them te 
come out, calling them knaves, cowards, 
and heretics, but being driven away, they 
cried out to fire the gates. The Univer- 
sity, that ver y night, were obliged to call 
a lone Congregatio Regentium Cantu, 
in scolis publicis cum gladiis et fustibus, 
and the next day, ae vice-chancellor 
and masters assembled, and determined 
that every president should be ready with 
certain men against the election of proc- 
tors, which preparation, at that time, 
prevented further commotion. 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
EEE 
N: ATION AL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE. 
REPORT of the TRANSACTIONS Of the MA- 
THEMATICAL CLASS Of the INSTITUTE, 
for the last watr year of 1806. By 
M. DELAMBRE, SECRETARY to the IN- 
STITUTE. 
(Concluded from p. 53 ). 
\ 7 E. noticed, in a former report, the 
invention of a spinning. wheel, by 
M. Bellemere*, director of the orphan 
hospital de la Pitié. M. Desmarets has 
since read an interesti ng FEpOIL on a new 
stocking-loom, invented by the same me- 
chanician, who forebore to present it to 
the class, till after he had fully ascertained 
its advantages by two years’ experience. 
By making itmuch lik ehter than the | English 
loom, the artist isenabled to furnish itat 
about one half of the expence of the 
former, which renders it desirable, that 
it should be introduced into all the ho- 
siery work-shops patronized by the go- 
vernment, 
From the assistance of the learned re- 
searches of M. Coulomb, and from the 
formule of Messrs. de Borda and La- 
ites we are at present enabled, with suf- 
ficient aecuracy, to ascertain, the decli- 
nation and inclination of the compass, and 
the intensity of the magnetic powe?. But 
these delicate observations, as M. Delam- 
bre justly remarks, require very per fect in= 
strumeiits, time, and an exact knowledge 
ofthe meridian of the place. The majority 
of travellers are wholly deficient in these 
means, and have not been able to make 
a sufficient number of ohservations to as- 
certain the position of the magnetic 
poles of the earth, those of the magnetic 
BG and the points at which they bi- 
sect the ‘terrestrial eauator. M. Biot, 
has, | LOWEVETS attempted to determine, 
from the observations of M. La Peyrouse 
and 
