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VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Facluding Notices of Works in Hand, Deomefiic and Foreign. 
@,* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
R. WItLaN has in the prefs a work 
on the Cow-pox, and on its varieties 
and anomalies, to be illuftrated by engrav- 
ings, in the manner of his werk on Cuta- 
neous Difeafes. It comprizes the follow- 
ing feStious : . 
1. On the Combined Inoculation of the 
Variolous and Vaccine Fluids. 
2. On the Charateriftics and Effects of 
Perfe&t Vaccination. . 
3. On Imperfe& Vaccination. 
4. Small-pox fubfequent to Vaccination. 
5: On the Cutaneous and Glandular Dif- 
eafes imputed to Vaccine Inoculation. 
6. On the Chicken-pox and Swine-pox. 
7. On the Inoculation of the Chicken-pox. 
$3. Extermination of the Small-pox. 
The Appendix confifts of Letters from 
Dr. Jenner, and other phyficians and fur- 
geons in the principal towns of Great Britain 
and Ireland. 
Lord Orford’s Royal and Noble Au- 
thors, are about to make their appearance 
in a fplendid form. They are to be ac- 
companied by portraits, and {pecimens of 
the writings of the different authors, 
which will extend them to feveral volumes. _ 
‘The editor is Mr. T. Park. 
Mr. Georce CHaLMeERs will fpeedily 
publith Caledonia; or, An Hiftorical and 
Topographical Account of North Bri- 
tain, from the moft Ancient tp the pre- 
gent Times; with a Dictionary of Places, 
Chorographical and Philological. 
The friends of the late Dr. Prieftley 
have recently ereéted, in the Unitarian 
chapel, Birmingham, an elegant monu- 
ment to his memory, with an appropriate 
infcription by Dr. Parr. An artiit of 
that place has alfo finifhed a medal, on 
one fide of which is an admirable likenefs 
of Dr. Prieftley; on the reverie, the in- 
{cription by Dr. Parr. 
Dr. WaLcor has returned to the me- 
tropolis from Fowey, and is at this time 
employed in printing a new collection of 
Qdes and Elegies in his own inimitable 
ftyle,.to be entitled Zr iffia, or the Sar 
vows of Peter. The idea is founded on 
his-aHeged exclufion from his fhare of 
the loaves and fifhes during the late 
ae in Adminifiration. ‘ ’ 
c BeEDDOEs has in the prefs a Report 
from 4n Inftitution at Briftol for invetti- 
gating the Origin, and cutting fhort' the 
Progrefs, of Coniumption, Scrophula, 
Sac other. prevalent Disorders in FE amilies 
and Individuals, Thefe cafes have bece 
kept for feverai years by various m-dical 
gentlemen, who will be named, as well 
as by the editor, who will accompany 
them occafionally by practical ob{crya~ 
tions. + 
The two great farcophagi, which were 
taken among the other antiques trom the 
French at Alexandria, have been recently 
removed from the court-yard of the Bri- 
tith Mufeum to the new building in the 
garden intended for the reception of the 
Townley colle&tion of marbles, and the 
Egyptian and other antiquities. 
The Arundel, Selden, and Pomfret 
marbles, ftatues, &c. at prefent depofited 
in the Moral Philofophy School at Oxford, 
are fhortly to be removed to the Radcliffe 
Library. 
Dr. Joun Moonie, of Bath, who was 
employed with the forces during the late 
war in India, propofes to publith by fub- 
{cription, A Hiftory of the Military. Ope. 
rations of the Britifh Forces in Hin- 
dooftan, from the Commencement of the . 
War with France in 1744, to the Conclu- 
fion of the Peace with Tippoo Sultan in 
17843; Comprifing a Narrative of the 
Tranfactions of the Engiith Nation ig 
India during a Period of Forty Years. 
The Work will be elegantly printed, and 
comprifed in two large volumes, royal 
quarto, and will be embellifhed with maps, 
charts, plans, and views, illuftrative of 
the fubject. 
A new weekly paper on an improved 
and liberal plan, is announced at Ox‘ord, 
under the title of the Oxford Univerfity 
and City Herald, and Midland County 
Chronicle; with the Motto, Pro Rege, 
Lege, Aris, et Focis. This makes the 
203d weekly provincial publication 
in Great Britain and Ireland, of each of 
which one thoufand copies are fold on the 
average. At fixpence each Paper, the an- 
nual return to their proprietors is 263,gool, 
and at the duty of threepence-halfpenny per 
Paper, they yield to the State 154,000l. per 
annum. Each Paper contains alfo an aves 
rage of forty Advertifements yielding to 
the proprietors; at feven fhillings each, 
the fum of 147,7841. per annum ; and the 
-duty, at three thillings per Advertifement, 
yields to the State 63,3361. per annum. 
Such are the wonders of one department 
only of our periodical Prefs} 
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