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FRANCE.

ART. 52. Mémoires de la Société médicale d'émulation pour l'an-5 de la république. Paris, large Svo.

This volume confifts of 44 Differtations and Memoirs, together with a lift of fuch Effays as have been fent to the editors, but are not yet printed. The Society fully anfwers its title, not being in any respect inferior to the Société de medicine et de pharmacie, which is authorized and fupported by the fate, and which in. the place of the Journal de Médicine, difcontinued in the year 1793, now publishes a new Journal, entitled:

ART. 53. Recueil périodique de la Société de Médicine de Paris. 4to.

Of this work, a number, forming fix fheets, appears every month. Nineteen fuch have already been published. Some of the last have treated particularly of the Brownian Syftem, two tranflations of which into French have lately been made; one from the Italian, with the obfervations of Frank, by Leveille, and the other from the German verfion of Weikard, by Bertin. We may likewife take this opportunity of mentioning three other Medical Journals, namely:

ART. 54. Obfervations médicales, Journal périsdique, par les Citoyens Waton et Guerin;

which is likewife publifhed monthly, and commences with the prefent year: the

ART. 55. Journal de l'Art de conferver la fanté et de prolonger la Vie, par Giles Latourette;

a number of which appears at the end of every decade; and the ART. 56. Journal, or Recueil de découvertes et d'obfervations fur la Pharmacologie, par la Société des Pharmaciens à Paris;

of which two numbers only have appeared. In the first number is given, by Truffon, Director of the Society, the Hiftory of the College des Pharmaciens, together with the plan of Lectures and inftructions adopted by its members.

ART. 57. Obfervations de Lamoignon Malefherbes fur l'histoire géné rale et particulière de Buffon et Daubenton. Paris, 2 Voll. in 8vo. (pr. 6 livr.)

To this pofthumous work of a very able and ingenious writer, is prefixed an Introduction, from which the reader will be able to form

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fome judgment of his uncommon induftry, and comprehenfive knowledge. Thofe perfons who poffefs the Natural Hiftory of Buffon and Daubenton, will confider this as an indifpenfably neceffary fupplement to it, rendered ftill more valuable by the interesting literary notices with which it is enriched.

ART. 58. Le Botanile cultivateur, ou defcription, culture, et ufages de la plus grande partie des plantes étrangères, naturalifées et indigènes, cultivées en France et en Angleterre, rangées fuivant la méthode de Juffieu, par Dumont-Courfet. Paris, 3 Voll. in 8vo.

We are here presented with a compilation, which, according to the Magazin Encyclopédique, may, to the general botanical ftudent, in fome meafure fupply the place of more expenfive works, fuch as the Hortus Kewenfis, Miller's Lexicon, the Fiora Françaife, &c. and which, indeed, appears to be as perfect and comprehenfive, as fuch an abridgment can be expected to be. On the fubject of botany, to which it feems that a more than ordinary degree of attention is at prefent paid in that country, we may likewife point out the three following new, and really valuate publications, namely;

ART. 59. Tableau fynoptique de la méthode botanique de Durande, printed for the école polytechnique (pr. 3 liv.)

ART. 60. Tableau fynoptique de la méthode botanique de B. et L. Juffieu-printed likewife for the use of the école polytechique (pr, 18 liv.) and

ART. 61. Hiftoire des plantes d'Europe, ou Elemens de Botanique practique, par Gilibert. 2 Voll. in Svo. (pr. 15 liv.)

ART. 62. Hiftoire naturelle des Oifeaux d'Afrique, par Vaillant,

Of this expenfive and important work two volumes have appeared, in three different forms. That in 12mo. may be regarded as a fequel to Büffor, and has only black plates. The price of each livraison in this fize is 7 liv. only.

GERMANY.

ART. 63. Allgemeine geographische Ephemeriden, heraufgegeben von Hn. Maj. von Zach, 1798; 10 St.-General Geographical Ephemerides, published by Mr. de Zach, 1798; Part 10.

Befides original geographical and aftronomical communications, by Oriani and Wurm, articles of Correspondence from St. Petersburg and Paris, and mifcellaneous accounts relative to Malefpina's and Baftiamente's Voyage of Difcovery, and the difcoveries made by Eiche in North-West America, this volume contains Reviews of, and criticisms upon, the following Books and Maps, namely, 1. L'Inde en rapport avec l'Europe, par Anquetil du Perron; 2. A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the World, by G. Vancouver;

3. An Account of the English Colony in New South-Wales, with fome Particulars of New Zealand, by D. Collins; 4. Ruffischer Atlas des Bergcadetten corps (Ruffian Atlas Southern Provinces, Continuation); and, 5. Karte vom Herzogthum Holstein, &c. Chart of the Dutchy of Holftein, the Districts of Hamburg, Lübeck, and Eutin, by B. Jena ALZ.

ART. 64. Magyar Minerva. Elsö Kötet. Anyos Pál Munkaji.-Hungarian Minerva. Vol. I. Works of Paul Anyos. Vienna, 260 pp. 8vo. (pr. 1 Fl.)

This author died in the year 1784. His works are here published by Joh. Batfányi, a diftinguished poet, and heretofore editor of the Magyar Museum. They confift of moral and occafional poems, as alfo of letters in verfe and profe, and have undoubtedly confiderable merit. A Preface and Notes have been added, by the editor.

ART. 65. Kleinere Hebräische Sprachlehre. Ein Aufzug aus dem gröf fern Werke, von Joh, Severin Vater, Prof. zu Jena.-Short Hebrew Grammar; an Extract from the larger Work of J. S. Vater, Profeffor at Jena. iv and 170 pp. 8vo. Jena, 1798.

A very excellent abridgment of a defervedly approved Hebrew Grammar, calculated chiefly for the use of those who, not having ftudied this language according to any other system, have no prejudices to combat, and nothing to unlearn. ས་ Ibid.

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ART. 66. Joh. Jac. Griefbachii, Commentarius criticus in textum Græcum Novi Teftamenti. Particula 1.168 pp. in 1. 8vo. Jena, 1798.

The firft Part, which contains a re-impreffion of fix Programmata written four years ago, proceeds indeed no further than through the first twenty chapters of Matthew, but will occafionally be continued. The author's object in it is, to ftate more fully than could be done confiftently with the plan of his edition of the Greek Teftament, his grounds for the opinions which he has given in it of the most impor tant various readings, to which it is his intention in this work chiefly to confine himself. The writers against whom his oppofition feems to be principally directed, though they are indeed feldom named, are Mill, Weiftein, and Matthäi.

Ibid.

ART. 67. Plato's Briefe nebft einer hiftorifchen Anleitung und Anmer kungen von J. G. Schloffer.-Plato's Letters, together with an hiftorical Introduction and Remarks, by J. G. Schloffer. xxxii and 250 pp. in 8vo. Königsberg.

Several writers, among whom we may particularly reckon Meiners, have expreffed their doubts in regard to the authenticity of thefe Letters, which is, as may be expected, maintained by the prefent tranflator. He appeals, on this occafion, to the Bibliotheca Græca of Fabricius, and to the opinion of Tennemann, ftated in his Differtation on the Doc

trine of the Immortality of the Soul, as held by the Socratics, and in his Syftem of the Platonic Philofophy. The ftyle certainly bears very little refemblance to that of Plato, and the want of order which prevails in many of the Letters, is altogether unworthy of him.

In the hiftorical Introduction, which has unquestionably confiderable merit, we are prefented with the hiftory of the ftate of Syracufe, from its first origin to the overthrow of the government of Dionyfius by Timoleon, in which the author very properly dwells on thofe events to which the Letters themselves have a reference. The Letters likewife in the tranflation, which is fometimes not perfectly correct, and generally inferior to that of Morgenfiern, are arranged in chronological order. The notes are intended either to illuftrate hiftorical events, or to anfwer objections to the genuinenefs of the Letters, or, laftly, to account for, and vindicate, the tranflator's version of different paffages. Ibid.

SWEDEN.

ART. 68. Guide du Voyageur aux carrières et mines de Suède, à l'ufage des etrangèrs curieux, des Mineurs et Mineraloges par Gustave Engeltrom, Confeiller des Mines. Stockholm; 110 pp. with a large Chart.

This work, as indeed appears from the title, is defigned for the accommodation of foreigners, who vifit Sweden for the fake of examining the mines there, or of making mineralogical collections. In the Royal College of Mineralogy are charts of all the different mines, with collections not only of Swedish, but likewife of foreign minerals, both arranged according to the places where they are found. He who would vifit thefe mines to the greatest advantage, should choose the fummer for this purpose, about the latter part of May, and the beginning of June, when the nights are very far from being dark. Mr. E. has, both in the work, and in the chart, defcribed for them feven diftinct tours, or excurfions, from Stockholm as the middle point, with the feveral pofts and diftances, in Swedish miles; and at each mine, the dif ferent forts of minerals which are to be found there. He has like wife occafionally mentioned other objects of curiofity, and antiquities, to be met with on these routes.

ART. 69. Skrifter af Sällskapet för allmänne medborgerlige kunskaper. III. Bandet.-Writings of the Society for the Improvement of General Orvil Knowledge. Vol. III. Part IVI. 220 pp. 8vo. Stock

holm.

The most interesting articles forming thefe new livraisons of a valuable collection of differtations on fubjects of common life, are, Part I. Is there any material difference between Man and Woman, exclufively of that of fex? Anfwered very much in favour of the fairfex, chiefly on the grounds adduced in an effay on the fame fubject,

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published at Berlin, 1792. 2. Obfervations on the custom of expofing the bodies of malefactors under execution to the public view; of which the author highly difapproves. 4. Exhortation to inftitute parochial Schools. Holland, fays the writer, has 1700 public fchools; the city of London only 131 schools for the inftruction of the poor; and the whole kingdom of Sweden not more than 500.

In the Second Part, we fhould point out, 1. Propofals for promoting marriages and population-among country people of the lower claffes. 2. On certain prejudices of civil fociety-fuch as that of its not being allowed to private perfons in Sweden to write on public affairs; on the idea of improving the moral conduct of men by means of corporal punishment, &c.

From the Third Part may be felected the following articles: 2. Some obfervations on the general fate of agriculture. The author reckons in Sweden 160,000 citizens, and 1.883,537 boors.

In the Fourth Part we may recommend the following pieces: 2. On the difadvantages arifing from the ceffation of commerce by means of exchange, and the general ufe of money. 3. On certain ceremonies and cuftoms among ancient nations, which have had a great influence on their characters and manners. 4. Proposals intended to prevent the decrease of pr pulation-chiefly by a diminution of the number of capital punish ments, and good medical inftitutions.

Some obfervations on Banks form the most important article in the Fifth Part; and, in the Sixth, the continuation of those on the decrease of population.

ART. 70. Vetenskaps-Handlingar för Läkare och Fältkärer utgifne af Sven Hedin, M. D.-Scientific Notices for Phyficians and Surgeons, published by S. Hedin, M. D. Affeffor of the Medical College, and Fellow of the Royal Medical Society at Copenhagen. Vol. II-IV. 8vo. Stockholm, 1798.

The plan of this work is more extenfive than that of the Wekofkrift för Läkare-Journal for Physicians, of which twelve volumes have been published. It contains indeed but few original medical differtations, but very circumftantial accounts of the latest medical writings, collected either from the works themfelves, or the different foreign jour. nals, in which they are reviewed; fuch as, the Journal der Erfindungen Journal of Difcoveries); the Medicinifche chirurgifche Zeitung (Me dico-Chirurgical Journal); Gruner's Almanach; Richter's Medici nifche und chirurgische Bemerkungen (Richter's Medical and Chirurgical Obfervations); Theden's neue Bemerkungen (Theden's new Obfervations); Crell's and Girtanner's Annals; the Italian Biblistheca Medicochirurgica; the Mémoires de la Société de Médicine; the Journal de Médicine; the Médicine éclairée ; Medicinal Facts and Obfervations ; the Me, morie di Matematica e fifica della Società Italiana, Sr. At the end of cach number are given thort biographical accounts of eminent ancient and modern phyficians, in alphabetical order, as far as the letter M.

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