sol] 
produced violent fweats, and always put a 
fiop to vomitting. The dottor, in fome 
particular cafes, rendered the virtues of 
the oil {till more efficacious, by adding 
camphor to it. This difcovery is, of 
courte, very valuable, as the fever cured is 
precifely the fame as that which has made 
fuch cruel ravages in St. Domingo. 
_M. Massieu has eftablifhed at Mou- 
fins, in the department of Allier, a manu. 
factory of earthen ware, capable of refitt- 
ing fire, from which the mot advantage-~ 
ous refults are expe€ted. His firft pro- 
duétions are confined to domeftic ules, 
and have completely refolved the queftion, 
whether it is poffible to manufa&ture 
earthen ware, into the covering of which 
no metallic calx muit be introduced, ca- 
pable of refifting the action of fire and 
acids, and at a cheap rate. The glazing, 
with which they are covered, both within 
and without, is purely filiceous, and can- 
nat be injured by fatty fubftances or 
acids, 
The Batavian Government has rein- 
fated the Univerfities in their ancient pri- 
vileges. The Profeffors atid Students ave 
relieved from the payment of impofts, and 
every thing has been placed on the fame 
footing as before the Revolution. 
The naturaliits who, for eight years, 
have been traverfing Mexico, California, 
and the Spanif Antilles, under the direc- 
ticn of the able Profeflor DE Szssz, have 
returned to Spain. ‘The principal object 
of their refearch was botany, and they 
have completely executed the defign of 
their expedition, M. De Seffé has, for 
feveral years, been actively employed in 
fending feeds to European botanifts, and 
has tran{ported his colleétion of plants to 
the boanic garden of Madrid. He calcu- 
Jates, that he has enriched the fcience of 
botany with two thoufand five hundred 
Monthly Retrolpect of the Fine Arts. aA 
new fpecies. Eighty new fpecies of fith 
have been added to Buocu’s Ichthyology. 
Another great advantage derived from 
this expedition is, that four efablithments 
of natural hiflory, and particularly of bo- 
tany, have beea founded in provinces of 
Spanifh America, where thole {ciences 
had not been before cultivated. 
The block ef pgyplum lately found at 
Pantin, in France, and containing a con. 
fiderable portion of the fkeletonof a qua- 
druped, has been obtained by the Preie@t 
of the Seine; and has been given by him 
to the Mufeum of Natural Hifory. The 
adminiftration has commiffioned M. Cu- 
VIER, one of its members, to examine it. 
This quadruped is one of the eleven f{pe- - 
cies already determined by M. Cuvier, 
from the bones found in the plafter-quar- 
ries, and which conititule an intermediate 
genus between the tapir and the rhinoce- 
ros, no individual of which has yet been 
found alive on the prefent furface of the. 
globe, either by travellers or naturaliés. 
In fize, the animal in queftion was larger 
than a fox, and {maller than a fheep, 
This block from Pantin proves, that ie 
had at leaft fixteen ribs. M. Cuvier nas 
denominated the genus to which it belong. 
ed palzotheriusm. 
In removing the rubbifh of the Cafle 
of Neuilly-PEvéque, fituated near Ifigny, 
in the department of Calyados, was found 
a mutilated ftatue, the head of which is of 
marble, and the body of {tone. Below is 
an infcription, in which may be diftin- 
suifhed the letters WLI. M.; and farther 
on, O. D. IV. The head is in better 
prefervation than the other parts. The 
coftume is that of the knights of the 
eleventh and twelfth centurics. Near i¢ 
were difcovered fome fragments of a collax _ 
of copper gilt. 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
The Loan of all new Prints and Communications of Articles of Intelligence are requefied, 
N a fealon of difficulty and danger like 
the prefent, it cannot reafonably be ex- 
pected that the Fine Arts fhould flourith 
as in times of uninterrupted tranquility. 
The din of arms, difputes of the different 
powers on the Continent, the violence of 
political difcuffioa, and‘ apprehenfions, 
whether real or imaginary, of a hoitile 
invahon, are certainly unfavourable « to 
the cultivation of thofe arts, which at the 
fasne Lime that they have a tendency to the 
extirpation of the favage habits that ufually 
predominate in a convulfed country, im- 
prove the underftanding and humanize the 
heart. But though for a while obfcured, 
they. are not extinguifhed ; and though 
the progrefs of great werks may be in 
fome degree fufpended, we truft that the 
fufpence is only temporary, and that they 
will burft through the cloud with en- 
creafed {plendour. 
Even now, painting has in fome in- 
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