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detail of such miscellaneous oceurrences 
within-the same period, as may be deem- 
ed worthy of record, 
Mr, Rytancs is composing a ro- 
mance, to’ be entitled, Francesco, or 
the Fool of Genius, ‘fonnded on the ex- 
traordinary life of Mazzuoli, celebrated 
as a painter, by the name of Parme- 
giaho. 
' Dr. Apams’s work on Epidemics, is 
almost through the press. Itt is an 
address. to the public, particularly the 
legislative body, on the aa which go- 
vern those diseases, and on the Jate pro- 
posals for exterminating the sinall pox, 
Mr, Wesse is about to publish an 
edition of his most admired Glees, in 
three volumes, folio; containing each 
about one hundred pages. 
Dr. Croren intends to read Lectures 
on Music at the Hanover-square Rooms 
mApril, His third volume of Specimens 
ef the various Kinds of Music: will be- 
publisbed shortly ; aud be is engaged in 
preparing some other publications which 
ere expected to be imteresting to the mu- 
sieal world. 
Dr. Rerp will commence lis Lecties 
eon the Theory and Practice of Medicine, 
at his house in Grenville-street, on the 
45th of March. 
Dr. Crarxe and Mr. Crarke will 
hegin their Spring Course of Lectures on 
Rlidwifery and the Diseases of Women 
and Children, on Monday, March the 
20th; from a quarter past ten o’clock in 
the morning till a quarter past eleven, 
for the convenience of students attend. 
ing the hospitals. 
“A new edition of Lardner’s Works is 
jn considerable forwardness, and is to 
apyear in monthly parts. The first part 
will make its appearance on the first of 
Mareh, and the others-in succession, on 
the first day of every, month, or earlier, 
at the option of subscribers. Tt is cal- 
culated that the whote works will be 
eomprised in about thirty-two parts, and 
that this will be the cheapest edition of 
the Works of Lardner ever sis eae 
' The Rev. Roazret Braxp, author of 
of Edwyn and Elgiva, and Sir Eve: rard, 
has in the press a poetical romance in ren 
autos, entitled, the Four Slaves of Cy- 
thera. 
The Rev. J. neces is about to 
publish by subscription all the Odes of 
PinDaR, translated into English verse, 
with notes explanatory and critical. 
Mr. ©. Macartney is preparing for 
publication a set of rules for sascertain- 
ing the situation and relatious in the live 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
“new annnal, 
[March 1, 
ing body of the principal blood-vesseis, 
nerves, &C. concerned m surgical opera- 
tions ; to be illustrated with plates. 
At a meeting of the Wernerian Na- 
tural History Society of Edinburgh, on 
the 14th of January, Dr. Thomson read 
au interesting description and analysis of 
@ particular variety of copper-glance, from 
North America. At the same meeting, 
Dr. John Barclay communicated s somes 
highly curious abservations which he had 
made on the caudal vertebre of the great 
sea snake, mentioned in a former suiabers 
which exhibit in their structure some 
admirable provisions of nature, not hi- 
therto observed in the vertebre of any 
other animal. Mr. Patrick Neill read an 
ample and interesting account of this 
collected from different 
sources, especially from letters of un- 
doubted authority, which he had receiv- 
ed from the Orkneys. He stated, how- 
ever, that, owing to the tempestuous - 
season, the head, fin, sternum, and dorsal 
vertebra, promised some. weeks ago ta 
the University Museum of Edinburgh, 
had not yet arrived; but that he had re- 
ceived a note from Gilbey t Meason, Esq. 
on whose estate in Strousa, the sea-snake 
was cast, intimating, that they might be 
expected by the earliest arrivals from 
Orkney. In the mean time he submitted 
to the Society the first sketch of a 
generic character: The name proposed 
for this new genus was Hualsydrus, (from 
ars, the sea, and idges, a water-snake ;)} 
and as it evidently appeared to be the 
Soe-Ormen described by Pontoppidan, 
im his Natural History of Norway, it was 
suggested that its specific name should be 
H- Pontoppidani. 
Dr. Kentisy, of Bristol, has formed 
an establishment where: the faculty may 
order heat or cold in any proportion to be 
applied to a patient either focally or ge- 
nerally. 
The following account of a shock of 
an earthquake felt at Dunning in Perth- 
shire, on the 18th of January, “about two 
0 ‘clack, A. M. Is given by Mr. Peter 
Martin, surgeon of that place. He was 
returning home, at the time, on horse- 
back, when his attention was suddenly 
attracted by a seemingly subterraneous 
noise; and his horse unmediately stop- 
ping, he perceived that the sound pro- 
ceeded from the north-west. After it 
had continued for half a minute, it be- 
came louder and louder, and apparently 
nearer, when, suddenly, the earth heaved 
perpendicularly, and with a tremelous, 
waving motion, seemed te roll or move in 
@ souths 
