1806.] 
of time, in the manner of the organ ; and 
its tones have the effect of violins, violas, 
and violoncellos together. 
The Pruffian Government has lately 
ordered a prize-medal to be ttruck, for tie 
purpofe of promoting Vaccine Inoculation. 
‘The value of the gold one is 50 ducats, 
and the filver one weighs 8 ounccs. On 
one fide is a buft of the king, with this 
circumicription :-—** Fredericus Wilhelmus 
Rex Pater Patria.’ The reverfe contains 
a Cow, carrying the Goddefs of Health 
through the fea, and is repretented as juft 
reaching the fhore. The circum{cription 
ais ‘* In te fuprema falus.” 
Dr. GALL has met with the fame flat- 
tering reception at Copenhagen, as at 
Jena, Berlin, Drefden, and other cities in 
Germany. He has read two courfes of 
lectures on his Craniology, during which 
he exhibited two remarkable f{culls, viz. 
the {cull of Bifhop Abfalom, (which is 
preferved in the cabinet of curiofities at 
Copenhagen, ) and that of General Wurm. 
fer. In both thefe the organ of courage 
was, very diltingtly. marked ; but no trace 
of it was difcoverable in that of Axlinger 
the poet. A caft of Bifhop Abfalom’s 
butt has been taken. Dr. Gall interds 
to pay a vilit to the anacomilts at Paris, 
before he publifhes his long-expected 
fyftem. 
M. SYLVESTER DE SACY is now at 
Genoa, where he is employed in invelti- 
gating all the antique monuments of Li- 
guria, and particularly in examining the 
manuieripts which relate to the Public 
Infiitutions of that country, and the trade - 
of Genoa to the Levact. 
Mr. HUMBOLDT is fafely arrived in 
Beilin, where he intends to arrange and 
prepare for publication the numerous and 
woft important obfervations he had made 
dusing his late travels in America. They 
are expected to make ten volumes in 
quarto. 
, .The fecond part of Mr. Reuss’s 
Gelebrte England, with its fupplement 
and continuation, from 1790 to 1803, has 
lately been publifhed at Berlin. 
terefting publication contains an account 
of living Britifn Authors, and of their 
works, chiefly abridged from the annual 
work entitled Pablic Characters. 
Dr.STRUVE has contrived an apparatus 
to fhew by means of Galvanilm whether 
the. appearance of death be real. This 
will be efteemed a difcovery of confidera- 
ble importance, by thofe who reflect on 
the fatisfaction which recovery from ap- 
parent’ death mult give to the friends of 
the individual fuppoied to be dead. 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence, 
logy. 
This in- 
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The Ruffian circumnavigator, Captaig 
KRUSENSTERN, who, after his return 
from a voyage round the world, had con- 
veyed the Ruffian ambaflador Rafanow 
to Japan, is, after remaining feven months 
in that country, returned to Kamt{chatka. 
Dr. Gauss, of Brunfwick, has ccom- 
municated to the Gottingen Society the 
rejult of his obfervations of the new planet 
Harding, or Juno, and the elements of 
its orbit, calculated from his own obfer- 
vations, and thole of Meflrs. Zach and 
Olbers. 
M. GieseCKE, a Prufhan mineralogift, 
who has been a confiderable time at Co- 
penhagen, is about to be «mployed by 
government on a voyage to Greenland, 
where he is to pals fome years In examin- 
ing that country, its mineralogy and geo- 
Hitherto the Moravian religious 
miffionaries/have alone been able to re- 
folve to Wwe fome years in thar country 
for the converfion of the natives: it will 
be no little honour to the {ctences, if M. 
Giefecke fhal}. bring himfelf to moke a 
dike facrifice tor their advancement. 
M. Canova, the celebrated {culptor, 
is engaged in_erecting at Vienns, a 
{pléndid Maufoleum of the Arch-dachefg 
Chriftina, an immenfe compobtion of eight 
marble figures, larger than life 5 the mo- 
dels and execu'ion of which have deen 
long admired at Rome, where they were 
formed. M. Canova, before his departure 
from Rome, exhibited a colofial group, 
reprefenting Theleus combating wih fl 
Centaur. This group is/to be execuied 
in marble for the city of Milan... The 
aitifts and connoiffcurs of Rome feem ta 
efteem this wok fuperior to every other 
which has been executed by this ingenious 
and indefatigable artill. | 
According to the report of the minifer 
of public initruction, there is at prefent in 
Reffia 494 inflitations for esucation, di- 
reCied by 1475 matters, ani attcnded by 
33.434 {cholars. The exsence of thele 
eftablifhments cofts government annusily 
almoft two millions of roubles. Among 
thefe are not reckoned thofe for the-corps 
of cadets, or for pages. the academy of 
arts, the f{chools of commerce, nor the 
inftitution for femate education. Thofe 
who know the flate in which Ruihen edu- 
cation was at the acceflion of Alexander, 
may judge by this detail what he haz dong 
towards enlightening his valt empire. 
M. SEsskeN has Jately, ater much 
labour, fupplied the oblervatory of Li- 
lienthal with two mirrors of 15 leet focus, 
and rr inches aperture. They bea: the mag. 
nifying pewer of 2000 on proper fabjects, 
RoBERTSON, 
