1808.] . 
Anecdotes relative to the authors of 
books, as well as to the bouks themselves, 
will be occasionally given. Information 
on these subjects will be collected chiefly 
from the writings of Wood, Nicholson, 
Hearne, Tanner, Bagford, Warton, Rit- 
son, Bishop Percy, Pinkerton, G» Ellis, 
‘Todd, and Brydges. Many interesting 
remarks will also be inserted from the 
communications of eminent modern bib- 
liographers ; and the public libraries of 
Oxtord, Cambridge, and London, will be 
caretully consulted, It is intended to 
omit the prologues of Caxton, Wynkyn 
de Worde, &c. in the frst volume, and to 
throw them into the fifth by way of sup- 
plement. By this method, the account 
of the books will be less interrupted, and 
the object specified by Ames and Her- 
bert equally attained; namely, that of 
supplying materials for filling up imper- 
fect copies of our -early printers. ~Al- 
most all the plates of Ames, which Her- 
bert has indiscriminately’ admitted, are 
not only destitute of taste and skill, but 
are incorrect representations of the ori- 
ginals, Fac-similes of the types and de- 
vices of printers, are crowded together 
ina minute and irregular manner,” and 
printers’ portraits are given with little fi- 
delity or elegance.’ In the present edi- 
tion it is’proposed to remedy these de- 
fects, and to vive accurate and well exe- 
cuted copies of originals. As a number 
of curious wvod’cuts are intended to be 
engraved, it is presumed that this edition 
of British Typographical Antiquities will 
afford an illustration of-the progress of 
engraving, as well as of the History of 
Printing in Great Britain and Ireland. 
The fifth volume 
i. An Account of the Private Presses in 
England, including a complete Catalogue 
Ruisonné of the works printed at Straw- 
berry-Inll. 2. A List of Books printed 
at the University Presses of Oxford and 
Cambridge. 3, A List of Books printed 
by Ruddiman, Bower, and Baskerville, 
with Biographical Memoranda and Por- 
traits of those Printers. 4. The Pro- 
logues of our early English Printers. 
5. A Printers’ Grammar upon a Plan 
entirely new, with plates by way of illus- 
trations. 6. Two Indexes; the one an 
Analytical Index, comprehending ‘all the 
books’ enumerated in the body of the 
work, arranged according to their respec- 
tive classes; the other a complete gene- 
ral index of persons and things. 
The University of Edinburgh has lately 
received a splendid acguisition in the mag- 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
541 
nificent Collection ef Minerals bequeathed 
to it by the late Dr. Thomson, of Naples, 
That celebrated mineralogist, during a 
long residence in a country extremely fers 
tile in the most interesting products of 
the mineral kingdom, lost no oppertunity 
of forming a mast splendid collection, 
which, having fortunateiy escaped every 
danger, has arrived at Edinburgh unin- 
jured. This bequest Dr. Thomson ace 
companied with the endowment of one 
thousand five hundred pounds, the in- 
terest of which he has destined for the 
payment of a lecturer on mineralogy and 
the support of the cabinet. The latter is. 
contained in forty very large boxes, which 
are deposited in the museam ofthe Uni- 
versity, and proper cases are making for- 
the reception of the specimens. The 
interesting and valuable collection, of the 
late ingenious Dr. Hutton, of Edinburgh, © 
has also been deposited in the museum, 
Dr. JoserPa Reape has published an 
Account of an Experiment, the result of 
which is in direét contradiction to the 
received opinion, that the agitation or 
friction of fluids cannot excite sensible 
heat. It is as follows:—The tempera- 
ture of the apartment being 40°, halfa 
pint of water at a similar heat, was pour= 
ed into a tin bottie-shaped. vessel, inte 
the aperture of which was mserted a 
thermometer surrounded with chamois 
leather, and made to fit accurately, with 
its bulb nearly inthe axis. After briskly 
agitating the vessel for a few~minutes, te 
is great surprise he found that the tem= 
perature of the water rose eight degrees 
and, even after the apparatus was uncoe- 
‘vered and laid at rest on che table, the 
will comprehend : © 
water continued to rise for severai mi- 
nutes; proving the origin of the heat to 
be inherent in the fluid, and independent 
of any external causes. Anxigus to 6b- 
viate every source of fallacy or objection, 
Dr. Reade prevented the communication 
of caloric by his hands, or of radiation 
from his body by coating the tin vessel 
with many layers of woollen cloth care- 
fully wrapped round it, over which there 
was a tin case, the entire nearly two 
inches in ‘thickness, and covered exter- 
nally with three wet towels, In the’ 
course of the experiment he dipped his 
hands frequently in snow water, and 
also sprinkled the towels. The Rey, 
Mr. Hincks, lecturer on chemistry in the 
Cork Institution, to whom the experi 
ment was communicated, on repeating 
it in a glass botcle, found the heat of the 
vessel, by means of a thermometer placed 
between 
