4804.) 
ones, with a view, it is faid, to guard 
the morals, but truly the politics, of the 
inhabitants. 
A monument ere&ted at Upfal, in ho- 
nour of Linneeus, is nearly finifhed. It 
is placed in the New Mufeum of Natural 
Hiftory, founded by Guftavus Iff. The 
defign was furnifhed by Desprez. The 
hall to which the name properly belongs, 
and which is deftined to public lectures, 
occupies the whole extent of one of the 
wings of the edifice. The grand entrance 
opens into the botanical garden. Ama- 
jeflic portico of eight Doric columns is 
placed in front. The ftatue of Linnzus 
is raifed in aniche, lighted from above, 
to which there is an afcent by feveral eps 
of white and black marble. Allegorical 
ornaments, figures in bas-relief, decorate 
the whole extent of the hail. 
A valuable colle&tion of minerals has 
heen made at the Rofenburg Palace, at 
Copenhagen, as part of a Mufeum of Na- 
tural Hiftory. The Danifh Government 
has purchafed for it the fhells, minerals, 
and petrifactions of SPENGLER, Superin- 
tendant of the Cabinet of Curiofitics, for 
which they have paid 11251]. which is faid 
to be lefs than half its value. 
Mefirs. LEE and Kennepy, botanifts 
and florifts, of Hammerfmith, near Lon- 
don, have lately fent to the Mufeum of 
Natural Hiftory at Paris an affortment of 
one hundred fpecies, or varieties, of dif- 
ferent fhrubs, almott all foreign to Eu- 
rope, and aboriginals of the Cape cf Good 
Hope.. Only eight of thefe (pecies were 
to be found in the national colleétion, 
and the major part of the others has now 
been introduced for the fir time. They 
have arrived fafe, and are in the beft ftate 
of prefervation, They are all now, ex- 
cepting two or three, in full vegetation, 
put out abundance of flowers, and pro- 
_mife the happieft growth. In return for 
this cargo, the direétors of the Mufeum 
have tranfmitted to Mefirs, Lee and Ken- 
nedy four chefts of vegetables, fele&ted 
from among the novelties brought from 
the Antiiles, by Captain Baudin, and 
from among thote of feveral other foreign 
countries. 
We learn from the notice of the fittings 
of the Royal Academy of Sciences, of 
Gottingen, that M. HarbINc, at Li- 
Jienthal, was fortunate enough to find 
again, in the night from the 18th to the 
igth of February, 1803, the planet Pallas, 
of OLBERS, which, for feveral months, 
could not be objferved by reafon of its 
proximity to the fun. Guided by the 
ephemerides of that conftellation, furnifh- 
ed by M. Gauss, he found it on the 18th, 
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at 14h. so’. mean time, in the welt, near 
C. (No. 39) of the Bull Poniatowyski, 
agreeably to the Catalogue of Stars of 
Bode, between two fmall telefcopical ftars. 
On the 19th, at 16h. go’. it had ad- 
vanced direétly to the north, upon Ne, 
36. On. the) 20th, <1¢ h: 40’. he found 
it-on the eaftern fide of a triangie, formed 
of three {mall tars. Its apparent right 
afeenfion was, at 15h. 30%. 13/.==272°. 
38’. 27". north declination, 7°. 20’. Oa 
the arft, 16h. 38’. it was in the fouth, 
under three {mall itars, in the middle, be- 
tween Nos. 36 and 42 Yauri Pon. At 
17h. of, 14", its apparent right afcenfion 
Wwas'==.290°. 56'.. 29". declination =7". 
26’. 3". It refembleda ftar of the twelfth 
to the 13th magnitude, and its light had 
rather a reddith afpect. With a feven- 
foot telefcope there was no diftinguifhing 
any enlargement in the nebulofity obferv- 
ed Jaft year about it. In the fame notices 
Dr. O.bers in like manner announces, 
that, on the receipt of this news from M. 
Harding, he fought again for the above 
fiar, and had the pleafure to obferve it 
on the night following, February 21.— 
M. Olbers finds it thus:—17 h. 6’. ro!’. 
right afcenfion = 272°. 56’. 45".; declina- 
tion = 7°. 31'. 14'’.—-On February 23, he 
finds it—1gh. 24’. 56!. right afcenfion—= 
273°.28. 39/'. 5 declination = 7°. 46’. 1", 
The firtt obfirvation was compared with 
No. 36 Tauri Pon. according to Bode; 
the fecond with No. 42 Tauri Pon... M. 
Olbers fays, that the declinations are rae 
ther doubtful, for this reafon, that Pallas, 
being ‘very remote fiom the earth and 
from the fun, has, at prefent, but a very 
fecble light, and it appears nearly as 
bright as the fourth fatellite of Saturn. 
M. Olbers intends to tranfmit to the So-~ 
ciety any further obfervations that he 
fall make on this new planet. 
M. VANDEN SANDE has difcovered a 
method of making beautiful folid blue 
paint with turnfole—‘* Take turnfole, 
and boil it a moment with alum and wa- 
ter; ftrain the liquor through paper, and 
precipitate it with the ley of pot ath, a 
{mall excefs of which muft be added to the 
decompofition of ihe alum. This excefs 
of pot-afh gives the paint its blue colour. 
Take the depofit and make it into cakes. 
It muft not be uled with acids, nor be ex- 
poled to acid vapours, till the articles for 
which it has been ufed, have been vara 
nifhed. 
M. D’EDELCRANTz mentions the fol- 
lowing compofition as vey effectual in 
healing wounds in trees :—** With lin- 
fecd-oil (made very drying, by boiling 
each pound with an ounce of litharge) 
mix 
