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The Royal College of Surgeons of 
Edinburgh have appointed Mr. Joun 
‘Tuomson Profeflor of Surgery to the 
College, and have directed him to deliver 
annually, during the winter feafon, a 
Courfe of Lectures on the Principles and 
Prattice of Surgery. The courfe will be 
commenced on Wednefday the 31ft of 
Oétober. 
Though what is faid of the Olberzan 
Hercules appears to have been an impofi- 
tion, as it was very early fufpeéted to 
be, an article has appeared in one of the 
papers which appears entitled to better cre- 
dit. It ftates, that Dr. OLBERsS has dif- 
covered a comet in Bootes. In fo large a 
conftellation, this inieiligence is of very 
little ufe: but it makes another ftate- 
ment, which may be ufeful: that he has 
difcovered another New Plazet. Of the ob- 
fervations for feveral days thefe are three : 
1804. 
Sept.re R.A. 2° 26° 1. Degko°.37" N. 
Obferver, Hardinge. 
3. 1° 29’ 39" 
9 39 Age tie 
0° 49' 19"S. 
IIe aPiget 54 9S miet Gor 
Olvers. 
Appearance as of a ftar of the 8th 
magnitude, reddifh. If its apparent mo- 
tion fhould continue to be retrograde, 
and its declination to encreafe at the 
fame rate to 8th November from 8th 
September, being 61 days, its geocentric 
place would be then as underwritten: 
R. As 353° 59/6". . Decl. 13° 25' 53" S. 
Which would give its place a little W. 
of D of the Southern Fifh in Right Afcenfon, 
but about 14° S. of it: in a fpace very 
clear from any confpicuous ftars, on 
‘Thurfday the 8th of November next, 
when it would pafs the meridian about 
half paft eight in the evening, with an 
alt. of about 26°. It appears that its 
Defcending Node lies very near to the Equi- 
nottial Poznt, and that the Inclination of 
its orbit is confiderable. Its apparent 
motion in R.A. 7’ 33” daily. Retro- 
grade motion in Declination, 12' 34" S. 
daily. By its Retrogradation, which ape 
pears pretty equable, its relative velo- 
city, compared with that of the Eaxth, 
may be calculated: and it will be found 
Cif thefe remarks upon the tables from 
which the extract has been made are 
correct) to be not far from Mars in the 
fiftem, but proper to the Suz. If the 
{pots of the Sun were obferved in Sep- 
tember laft, (an opportunity which the 
writer. of this article regrets to have 
neglected,) they were probably found un- 
ulually large, numerous, and denie. - 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
[Nov. 45 
Mr. Winsor, the patentee of the new 
Coke, is every Monday, Wednefday, and 
Friday exhibiting the curious and very 
beautiful effects of this new difcovery, at 
the Lyceum, in the Strand. To the eco- 
nomift, as well as to the natural philofo-. 
pbher, the exhibition will be deemed of 
the urmof importance. Mr. W. demon. 
{trates very fatisfagtorily to thofe who are 
at all acquainted with the principles of 
chemittry, that all combufible fubitances, 
fuch as the wood and coal which we com- 
monly ule, wili yield, at a fmall expence, 
five cofily produéts, viz. oil, pitch, acid, 
coke, and inflammable gas: that the latter 
produé& alone not only, when properly 
managed, furnifhes the moff intenfe beat, 
but the pureft light. 
and apparently with great juftice, that the 
difcovery muit, if properly encouraged, 
be the moft prolific fource of the wealth of 
nations. — We mean in our next number to 
give a full account of the whole procefs. 
The difcovery faid to have been lately 
made, by Earl SraNnHopPe, of a particular 
mechanifin by which the keys of mufical 
inftrument are made to print the notes 
when they are tcuched, has been claimed, 
as is ufual in cales of this kind, by certain 
continental mechanics. A Berlin Journal 
affirms that a fimilar invention was pro- 
duced at Berlin, ky Hohfield, fifty or 
fixty years ago. 
builder, at Stutgard, has alfo given out 
that he is at prefent confiruéting a ma- 
chine by which whatever is played on the 
keys of an inftrument, will be printed by 
the movement. .This mechanic profefles 
to have had the idea from Biegal, a ma- 
thematician, of Biberack. We ftate thefe 
Hence he infers, 
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claims, but, at the fame time, inform the. 
feveral claimants that the method was 
known and defcribed in one of the early 
volumes of the Ph:lofophical Tranfactions 
of the Royal Society of London. 
Several new editions of the Cleffics 
have lately made their appearance in Ger- 
many, where polite literature is very much 
cultivated. Scumieper has jut publifh- 
ed Quintius Curtivs, with notes and ela-' 
borate commentaries. ; 
W aGNeR is about to prefent the pub- 
lic with a new edition of Cicero de Legt- 
cus. . 
ScuuTz, well known as the editor of 
Efchylus, is proceeding in an’ edition of 
the Complete Works of Cicere. . 
And Konic has lately publifhed a 
Commentary of the Satires cf Perfius. _ 
FasRE D°OLIveT has lately publifhed, 
at Paris, a tranflation of the Poetry of 
the 13th Century, in two yolumes, The. 
work 
” 
Pfeiffer, an organ. — 
