1806; )} 
_ Dr. Rerp will deliver the imtrodu€tory 
leGure to his fummer courfe, on the The- 
ory and Practice of Medicine, on Friday 
the 30th of May, at eight o’clock in the 
evening, at his houfe, Grenville-ftreet, 
Bronfwick-fquare; at which. place 
the fubfequent leftures will alfo be deli. 
vered, at ten o'clock in the morning, 
every Monday, Wednefday, and Friday, 
until the conclufion of the courfe. . 
That eminent engraver Mr. S. Mrnp1- 
MAN has recently commenced a new pub. 
lication under the title of ‘* Picturefque 
Views and Antiquities in Great Britain.” 
~ The whole work ts intended to be.comprifed 
in fifteen numbers, each of which will 
contain four plates, executed by himfelf, 
with defcriptions in Englifh and French. 
The firft number is executed with great 
tafte and elegance; and -we may augur 
from this fpecimen, tlat the entire work 
will dohonour tothe Englith durz. 
Mr. Horwe has laid before the Royal 
Society of London a paper defcribing a 
particular affeétion of the proftate gland. 
This difeale, which occafioned fo much 
pain, has hitherto been deemed trremedi- 
able; butit-is now hoped, the caufe hav- 
ing been difcovered, that ih's phyfiological 
difeovery may prove of incalculable ad- 
vantage in relieving the fufferings of, pa- 
tients fuppofed to be labouring under the 
effects of calculi, and other urinary difeafes, 
Dr. HERSCHEL has communicated a 
paper on the quantity and velocity of the 
folar motion, from which he illuftrates 
the caufes of the fidereal motions applied 
to fiars of fix different magnitudes. 
Mr. Lysons has prefented to the An- 
tiqaarian Society fome. extracts from the 
records kept in the Tower, in which it 
appears that Edward I. was extremely at. 
tached to different kinds. of {ports and 
paftimes, and particularly a game of cards 
which he learnt at Pakftine during his 
croifade, where it appears that painted 
figures had been in ule long before the 
reputed invention of cards in France, ‘in 
the eleventh century.—This gentleman 
has given feveral extra‘ts relating to, the 
condudé of the-laft Weith Prisce of Wales 
in 1260, and his reluctance to fubm't to 
Engl domination, . 
Mr. Marco .m exhibited to this fociety 
the core of a horn found in &t. Paul’s 
Church Yard, nine feet below the furface 
of the ground. This bone he fuppofed 
to have belonged to fome animals facrificed 
in the days of heathen fuperftition, as it 
has been alleged that the fite of this build- 
ing was anciently a place where the Ro- 
mans offered up faqifices to their gods! 
I 
the action of heat. 
Literary and Philofopbical Latelligences 243 
A mining inftrument, found in an old 
mine near Caiftleton, Derbyhhire, was ex- 
hibited: it is of the igure cf a common 
carpenter’s gouge; the upper part of i¢ 
covered with fpar, which is evidently 
formed upon it, and adhering to it on all 
fides. Itis thought that this mine has 
not been worked fince the days of the Sax- 
ons, but the iniirument is undoubtedly of 
a much more modern date, forthe forme 
ation of fpar is not one of the flowek pro- 
cefles of mineral aggregation. 
Mr, JosupH Srevens has invented a 
fimple and accurate mode of conftruding 
gazometers, for purpofes where uniform 
preffore is eflential, by the application of 
aa hydroftatical regulator. : 
On Wedne(day the 16th of April, the 
Royal College of Surgeons adjudged the 
Jackionian Prize for a805, to John Hyf- 
lop, Eig. furgeon, Fenchurch-ftreet, for 
the beft differtation on ‘ Injuries’ of the 
head from external violence.” 
Mr. Ropert Hauer, of Axminfter, 
has difcovered that the /friped or ribbana 
grafs, is found to be very excellent food 
for cattle; that it produces an earlier 
crop than moi other grafs, and that 
i: will bear cutting three or four t mes 
during the fummer: of courfe he re- 
commends the culture of it to farmers 
in general, 
Sir Jamés Haut has laid before the 
public. a feries of experiments, fhewing 
the effects of compreffion in modifying 
Thefe we fhall, here- 
atter, under the article «* Learned Socie- 
ties,”” detail at large. 
M, Dacuroepen, Prefident of the 
Academy of Ufeful Sciences at Erfurt, 
has announced to that Society that M, 
Humboldt purpofes to addrefs a Memoir 
on a {pecies of earth which he found heap- 
ed up into hills on the berders of the 
South Sea, and which, according to the 
analyfis of Vauquelio, contains 4%; of 
wrrejaeias Hy 
Since Louifiana has been ceded to the 
United States, two Societies for the pro- 
motion of fcience and literature have been 
efablithed, one at New Orleans and the 
other at Natchez. The former, called the 
Literary Society, intend to pubd|:th a month- 
ly magazine, principally for the purpof: 
of fpreading a knowledge of the country, 
and to amule and inftruét their readers by 
a colieétion of paperson a (variety of ufe- 
ful fubjeéts, The latter, which wats 
eltablithed in 1803, originally called 
‘¢ The Miliffippi Society for the Acquire. 
ment and: Diflemination of Ue'nl Know- 
ledge,” coniits of from thirty to forty 
MeINoers, 
