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details refpefling the rural ceconomy of 
Germany, fimilar to thofe by which 
Youne iliuftrates that of England: 
Voss, the famous poet and philologift, 
has been lately, for fome time, with a 
friend, at Ulm, and is expected to accept 
the appointment of Profeffor of Philology 
in the Univerfity of Wurtzburgh, with a 
falary. of 3000 guilders, to which he is 
invited by Count Thurheim, prefident of 
the regency. 
- The manufacture of paper is now pro- 
fecuted with very confiderable aétivity 
and {kill, at different paper-mills which 
have been eftablifhed in the vicinity of 
St. Peterfburgh. 
Schools for Veterinary Medicine have 
been lately inftituted at St. Peterfburgh, 
Molcow, and Lubny, in the Ruffian domi- 
nions. Six ftudents of furgery have been 
alfo fent from Ruffia to attend the Vete- 
rinary Schools at Berlin and Vienna. 
On the 21ft of September, about eleven 
o’cleeck at night, Mr. Bope, in the Ob- 
fervatory at Berlin, had a view of the new 
planet firft difcovered by Mr. Infpe&tor 
HarbDInNG, at Berlin, on the rft of Sep- 
tember. Its nearing was eaft-by-north, 
14. of the Whale, according to Mr. Bede’s 
catalogue of the ftars.” It appeared as a 
planet of the feventh magnitude. He cal- 
culated its meridian altitude at rth. 55’21"; 
its apparent right afcenfion at 3 59° 27' 46"; 
its fouth declination 3° 38’23”". He con- 
fiders it as a planet not known before Mr. 
Harding’s difcovery, and belonging to the 
region of Ceres and Pallas. 
The’ Society lately inftituted at Lau- 
fanne, to exterminate the Small-pox by 
Vaccination, have publicly offered to pay 
roo livres to any perfon who, after fuc- 
cefsfully undergoing vaccination under 
their care, fhal] take the fmall-pox. 
M. Lecoux pe Fiatx, member of 
the Afiatic Society, at Calcutta, who had 
~Jong been employed in the Eaft Indies; 
has been recommending and endeavouring 
to introduce into France, the fimple me- 
thod of the Hindoos, for cleaning and 
bleaching linen and cotton. cloths, by 
means of fteam. 
In a memoir lately read to the Phyfical 
Society, of Geneva ; M. Huser proves, 
by decifive experiments; 1. that bees 
make wax, by an internal fecretion ; there- 
fore, the wax does not exift in the pollen 
of the ftamina, but they extract it from 
the faccharine part of the honey ; the fugar 
given them for food, furnifhes wax juft as 
well as honey itfelf: 2. that the pollen of 
the ftamina is deftined entirely to feed the 
worms or larve of the bees. If, there- 
fore, you deprive a hive of pollen, and 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence, 
[ Nov. 1, 
give the bees honey, they will till make 
wax, but the worns wil! perifh of inani- 
tion ; if you deprive it of honey and leave 
the pollen, the worms will continue to 
thrive, but the bees will not make an 
atom of wax. 
Ina paper prefented to the Agricultu- 
ral Society of the department cf Vienne, 
by M. Siauve, a method is fuggefted 
for the purification of water, ufed foe 
domeftic purpofes, and for the feparation 
of thofe particles of felenite, to which are 
owing the incruftations on tea-kettles, 
and other utenfils. ‘This method is ex. 
tremely fimple, and confifts in placing 
horizontally, in the middle of a common 
water-butt, a falfe battom perforated 
with a great number of {mall holes. The 
butt being’ thus divided into two equal 
parts, the upper is filled with pieces of 
charcoal, which muft neither be too large © 
nor too fmall, thoroughly burned, light 
and well-wafhed. Immediately under the 
cock, by which the water enters the butt, 
muft be placed a fmall hollow cylinder, 
capable of holding one or two quarts, and 
perforated with feveral holes at the lower 
extremity. The ufe of this cylinder, 
being merely to break the force of the 
water, and prevent it from falling upon 
the charcoal with fuch violence as to de- 
tach from it any particles of dirt, and 
wath them through into the lower recep- 
tacle, it is of little confequence of what 
material it is made. The water thus 
filtered into the lower divifion of the butt, 
will always be perfeétly limpid an? falu- 
brious. - M. Siauve thinks, that this con- 
trivance might be made fubfervient to the 
interefts of agriculture as well as domefiie 
economy ; and that it would be highly 
advantageous to provide water thus filter- 
ed for the cattle, during the whole of the 
dog-days, and particularly when the ponds 
and fireams are infe&ted by the rotting of 
hemp and flax. 
Extra& and faithful tranflation of cer- 
tain paflages, contained in an interefting 
Tralian letter, from M. L> ABBE’ MorELLI, 
at Venice, to M. Chardon Ja Rochette 
‘¢ Tt is not my intention to relinquifh,” 
fays this learned librarian, “ the continu- 
ation of my Bibliotheca Manufcript2 ; but 
my numerous avocations, and the re- 
fearches that I am engaged in, for my 
friends and correfpondents, leave me nc 
leifure for ftudies that require time an 
attention. To fatisfy the defires of cer 
tain individuals, I have publifhed a diffe 
tation relative toa few Venetian Voyager 
that are but little known. I have reque 
ed our common friend, M. de Villoif 
to tranfinit you acopy. The hiftory 
