1807.) 
waent of that difeafe. The fame gentle- 
man is about to publifh additional Cafes 
of Gout, in farther proof of the falutary 
efficacy of the cooling treatment of that 
afflicting difeafe ; with ilinitrative anno- 
tations, written authorities in its {apport, 
controverfial difeuffions, and. a view of 
the prefent flate and future profpects, of 
the practice, And alfo a pamphlet, call- 
ed the Reviewers Reviewed, containing 
general ebferyations on legitimate and 
Tieerttious criticifm. 
Mr. Janson, an Englifh gentleman, 
who has refided fourteen years in Ame- 
rica, and has brought with him mi any 
she materials “relative to the ttate 
f fociety and manners in that, republic, 
is arranging them for the prefs; and they 
will {peedily appear im 3. quarco, vO- 
lume, accompanied by a number igf 
‘elegant engravings, 
Mr, Natzanite, Howarp, of Ply- 
mouth, has completed. a tranflation, in 
lank verfe, of the Inferno of Dante, 
with notes hifterical, clatlical, and -ex-. 
planatory. 
" Dr. A. P, Wirsox, of Worcefter, has 
nearly re: idy for publication an Efay on 
the Nature of Fever. 
Some Letters and Pofthumous Works 
of Mis, Cuapone are pre eparing for Rav 
lication, by one of her relations. 
Mr, Tyetwact has recently ie 
the plan of his inftitution in Bedtord- 
place for the cure df impedunents of | 
fpecch, by an arrangement which admits 
the introduétion ain the clafs of junior 
pupils under the fupermtendence of Mrs. 
‘Thelwall, by whom they are initiated 
in alt the cuftomar y clements of an .ac- 
complifhed education, including the ru-— 
diments of the Englih, Trench, Latin, 
and Italian languages, geography, altro: 
nomy, &c. This clafs of pupils i is kept 
diftinét from thofe of adult years, who 
continue to be attended to by Mr. 
Thelwall, in all the higher branches of 
eloquence and Englith ‘Jiterature. The 
Shane lectures are to be delivered on 
Mondays and Wednefdays only, tili the 
feafon of Lent; when they will be re- 
fumed on Friday evenings alfo. 
The Rev. J. Miirner has commenced 
the publication of an entirely new ¢di- 
tion of Fox’s original Book of Chrittian 
Martyrs. The embellithments will con- 
fit of upwards of fifty engravings. 
Dr. Rer’s Courfe of Leétures on ‘the 
Theory and Praétice of Mecycine, » wall 
dchticnre on Ryday the Oth of Ve- 
diver. cency, Mr. 
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bruary, at feven o’clock in the evening, 
at his houfe, Grenville-ftreet, Bruhfwick- 
fquare, 
Mr, Mirpurnwe’s Lectures on the 
Principles and Operations of Surgery, 
will commence on Monday the 9th iit. 
Mr. Davy, in the concluding Lecture 
of the firft part of his Courfe on Vege- 
-table Chemittry, gave a new theory to 
account tor the Fairy Rings, fo common 
in- fome meadow Jands, ‘They have of 
late years, been generally fuppofed to 
be occasioned tis the electric fluid; but, 
aecording to Mr. Davy, every fungus ex: 
hautts | the ground on which 1t grows, fo 
that no other can exift on the faine fpot =. : 
it fheds its feed araund, and ‘on the fe- 
-cond year, initead of a . fnele fungus as 3 
centreja wines arifé in an exterior ting, 
around the fpot where the individual 
ftood ; thefe exhautt the ground on which 
they have come to perfection; and, on 
the: fucceeding year, the ring becomes 
fill larger, from the fame principle of 
Davy acknowledged 
-himfelf mdebted to Dr, Wollafon for 
this ingenious theory. : 
Mr. Davy, in the concluding part of 
a Paper lately read before the R oyal Su- 
clety, confidered the influence of elec- 
tricity in the mincral kingdoin; its ac- 
tion.on the carburet of iron, and various 
other utineral bodies; and alfo its ime. 
portance, as tending to elucidate many 
phenomena in the ‘Ycieuce of veology, 
In the courfe ofthis Paper, were de- 
tailed an account of feveral original ex 
periments on the effects of electricity on 
certain chemical mentftruas in all of 
which the negative pole difenvaged Oxy- 
gen, and the pofitive hydrogen, 
The Copleyaun Medal has’ been ad2 
judged to T. A. Kyrcur, Efy. for his 
numerous difcoveries in vevetable e phivtis 
ology. Sir Jofeph Banks, upon prefent= 
ing’ Mr. Knight with the reward of his 
lubours and high merit, pronounced a 
moft able difcourfe on the parfuits of this 
gentleman, Ee noticed his’ refearches 
and ‘obfervations on the alburnous juices 
ot. plants) i its c/vent elaborating the 
buds and'leaves, and in its defeent forin- 
mg wood; aud of his difcovery of the'nas 
tural decay of apple-trees," and of the 
gratts, which decline ‘and became’ un- 
productive at the fame time with the pa- 
zent ftock, The learned Pretideat: re- 
ferred next to the experiments, which 
went to prove that all vegetables radiate 
by a are only, and not by airy iis 
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