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air, the electricity of voleanoes, and the 
inténfity of the magnetical fluid. Thefe 
experiments are neceflary in order to form 
a comparifon with thofe which he madg 
on the Andes. 
M. BoupLanp, who travelled ‘in the 
-Andes with Humboldt, is at Paris, pre- 
paring for the prefs a work on the ¢qui- 
noial plants. ; 
Korzesve has been arrefted in Italy, 
it is fuppof:d by the order of Bonaparte, 
in confequence of the freedom of. his re- 
marks upon the prefent fate of France. / 
The bookfellers of Frankfort have been 
obliged to appear before an extracrdinasy- 
committee of the magiftracy of that city, 
to take an, oath not to print or fell aay 
work contrary to religion,-or which may 
be aimed againit a foreign power or iis 
government. 
C. Grsporn has difcovered that Glk- 
worms may be fupported by collecting the 
autumnal foliage of the mulberry. tree, 
drying it artificially, and reftoving it to 
its former’ frefhnefs by immerging it in 
hot water. — 
The Philadelphia Golapatiy of Book- 
fellers have awarded a gold medal! to Mr. 
Youn, of the Delaware paper- mills, for 
eleven reams of excellent printing-paper, 
manufactured of mulberry-roots, and 
bags made of guma-bark. 
A great fubrerraneous fire has burft 
forth near the Ruffian fortrefs Phanagoria, 
on the peniniula of Taman, where a fimi- 
Jar phenomenon took place fome years 
fince. 
The Emperor of ‘Russia has order- 
ed, that at all the univerfities, and other 
public fchools, meteorological ' obferva- 
tions fhall be regularly mace, ‘and the 
refults made public. 
The fums allotted by the Rufian Ga- 
vérnment for defraying the expences of 
the academies, univerfities, &c, amount- 
ed, in 1304, to 2 514.9,273.rubles ; befides 
the gift of 66,910 rubles towards erefling 
the new univerhty at Charkow. Confice- 
table donations and fub{criptions likewile 
continue to be received from patrictic in- 
dividuals in various parts of the emjire, 
towards the endowment of felico;s and 
other inftitutions for the d.ffufion of 
knowledge amongft every clals of the na- 
tion. 
' M. Hacemann, a learned Sanfcrit 
{cholar, has difcovered in the Natiopal 
Library at Paris, MSS, of the firt and 
fourth Veda, which VoLney fuppoled to 
be eight hundred years old. When the 
Pope vifited the National Li ibrary on the 
44th of January laft, the early {pecimens 
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of printing, and many of the moft curious 
MS. were fhewn to him ; amongft others 
the Chinefe Is{cription, according: to 
which Chriftianicy was introduced into 
China in the feventh century ; the Poem 
written by the late Emperor pa China,; 
the Latin Bible of Charles the Bald, with 
illuminations, the only remaining {peci- 
men of the ancient. purple colour; the 
each 
page of which contains the coloyred figuie 
of a plant, with its appropriate infects i 
the richly-ornamented Prayer-bock of 
Louis X1V.; and the, Original Manu- 
{cript of Telemachus. 
M. Mivuin, the celebrated archeo- 
logit, in his late tour through the fouth- 
ern provinces of France, has collected two 
hendred inedited remains of antiquity, and 
above one thoufand Roman inferiptions, 
many of which are very interefting, _ 
An Icelandic Di€tionary, compofed by 
Biorn BEERS ON, a lately-deceafed 
Icelandic clergyman, will fhortly be pub- 
lifhed at the expence of tne Danifh Go- 
vernment. We may likewile foon expect , 
a Critical Grammar of the Icelandic Lan- 
guage from M. EEN a native of Al- 
tona, who was fent by the Danih Go- 
vernment to the northern parts of the 
Danifh dominions, for the porpofe of col- 
Ieting plants for a Flora Danica, and 
who, during his Travels, fudied the Ice- 
leer language, and collected many cu- 
rious Rubic inicriptions. : 
Six of the mot eminent phyficians. i im 
France, CHaUSsiER, LECLERC, BAILLY 
Husson, NysTen, and HAMEL, Hite 
been fent to Spain, to inquire into the na- 
ture of the epidemical difeafe, which has 
raged with fuch violence in that country, 
and to endeavour to find out the moft ef- 
fcctual remedy for preventatives againit 
it. The Kine of Pausstra has ik. wife 
fent thither; for the fame purpole, Pyro- 
feller Reicu, of Erlangen; and, in cafe, 
of the Profeffor’s death, will fetrle a pen- 
fion of fix hundyed rixdollars per annum 
on his widow. 
The merchants of Mofcow have foun#- 
ed in that city a Commercial School, the 
expences of which will amount to fittcen 
thoufand rubles. Say 
Bonapagte has founded a profeffor- 
fhip of the modern Greck language in the 
Coliége de France at Paris. The cele- 
brated L°ANsse DE HAL LOSES bas been 
appointed profeffor. 
The Icelandic mos, which had lately 
been difcovered in Spain, ,has likewile 
been found in the difttict af Con cof flola, 
in the ItaJian Re «public. Ran 
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