542 
between it and the covering, to be infe- 
rior to that of the inclosed fluid, and ona 
par with the atmosphere which. proves in 
a most satisfactory manner that there 
could be no communication of caloric 
from the hand. 
At the last meeting of the Wernerian 
Society at Edinburgh, Mr. P. Watker 
read an account of the birds that frequent 
the vicinity of Edinburgh. He enume- 
rated one hundred and seventy-eight spe- 
cies; of which, eleven belong to the ge- 
nus falco; four to strix ; one, lanius; 
eight to corvus; one, oriolus; one, cucu- 
lus; one, picus; one, alcedo; one, upu- 
pa; one, certha; two, sturnus; six, 
turdus; one, ampelis; two,loxia; seven, 
emberiza ; eight, fringilla ; one, musci- 
eapa; three, alauda; Afteen, motacilla ; 
four, pavus; four, hirundo; one, capri- 
mulgus } two, columba; one, phasianus; 
six, tetrao; one, ardea;. six, scolepax; 
seven, tringa; four, charadrius; one, 
hematopus; three, rallus; three, fulica; 
four, podiceps; four, alca; six, colym- 
bus; two, sterna; twelve, larus; one, 
procellaria; five, mergansa; twenty, anas; 
tour, pelicanus. This account was ac- 
companied with interesting observations 
on the distinctions of several of the spe- 
cies, their changes of plumage at different 
ages and times of the year, and their kind 
of food, and specimens of some of the 
dubious species were exhibited. 
GERMANY: 
We have already bad occasion to no- 
tice the intended travels into the East, of 
Captain Ho6ELMULLER, under the aus- 
pices of the Archduke Charles of Aus- 
tria, and his invitation of questions re- 
specting the countries to which his visits 
were Gesigned toextend. The term fixed 
for the transmission of these questions 
was till the end of February last, and 
before Christmas he had received five 
hundred. Among the learned bodies by 
whom they were sent, were the academies 
of Petersburgh, Copenhagen, and Turin, 
with several universities of Russia, Ger- 
many, Holland, and Italy. Several states- 
men had also contributed their inquires. 
_ The first volume of a Dictionary of the 
Teutonic language has lately been pub- 
lished by M. re Camp, It forms more 
than one thousand pages im quarto, con- 
taining 26,735. articles, and yet includes 
only the first five letters of the alphabet. 
The author admits all the dialects of the 
‘Jentonic tongue, and the technical terms 
ef every art. . 5 
Among the new works psblished at 
Lnterary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
rs 
[July I, 
Munich, one, entitled Gemahlde aus dem 
Nonnenleben, Pictures of Monastic Life, 
has lately excited considerable sensation. 
It is compiled byM. Lixpowsxy, from the 
archives of the suppressed nunnenes in 
Bavaria. ‘ 
Dector-Dt Carro, of Vienna, states, 
that he has lately been informed by one 
of bis friends, returned from Russia, that 
the substance employed in manufactur- . 
ing shawls, 1s a down which grows 
under the hair of the common goats of 
Russia. This down begins to grow du- 
ring the autumn, and is the winter cloth- 
ing of the animal. When spun and 
woven, this kind of stuff appears to the 
touch to be perfectly similar to the 
shawls of Cashmuire. . 
FRANCE, 
A projector at Paris has.ofered to con- 
struct a press capable of printing im 
twelve hours, 1200 copies of a work, not 
exceeding twenty-four. sheets, either m 
the common way, or in stereotype. He 
farther announces a press capable of 
working 30,000 sheets, with ordinary 
types, in twelve hours, and also a new 
method of composition, much more expe- 
ditious than that now in use. 
According to some crue}, though im- 
teresting, experiments, reported to the 
French Institute by M..Dupuyrren, 
principal Director of Anatomy at the 
Medical School, and M. Dupuy, Pro- 
fessor at the Veterinary School at Al- 
fort, on the subject of respiration 5. it ap- 
pears, that the section of the two nerves 
of the eighth pair (those of the stomach 
and breast), in animals, is certain and 
instant death; and that respiration, the 
most important function of life, is exer- 
cised directly under the power of ner- 
yous influence, and is inseparable from 
it. 
M. Louis Duroy, a colonist of St. 
Domingo, arrived some time since in 
France, with a variety of seeds and spe- 
cimens of the cotton piant. ‘These seeds 
were distributed among the Members of 
the Agricultural Society of Paris; and at 
a late meeting several reports were read 
from members who had attempted the 
cultivation of this commodity im France; 
ail of which give a most flattering aecount 
of the svecess of the experiment... In 
Provence and Languedee, in particular, 
the crop of cotton was very abundant, 
and equalled in guality the production of 
the West Indies, as was attested to the 
French government by several colonists. 
Not only the cultivation of cotton is pur- 
; ‘sued 
