such other remedies to be applied as are indicated.

7th. Renew the external application of hot spirits to the surface of the body, and diligently continue the friction with woollen cloth at least two hours.

8th. Do not despair-By perseverance in warm friction alone many lives have been restored, and in some instances where the bodies have remained in the water for nearly the space of half an hour.

Directions for preventing the fatal effects of drinking cold water.

1st. Avoid drinking whilst the body is heated, or during profuse perspiration.

2d. Wash the hands and face with cold water before drinking.

sd. If these precautions have been neglected, and cramps or convulsions have

been induced, let (in the case of an adult) a teaspoon full of laudanum be given immediately in a cup of spirits and water, and repeat the dose in half an hour if necessary.

4th. At the same time apply fomentations of spirits and water to the stomach and bowels, and to the lower extremities, covering the body with a blanket, or immerse the body in a warm bath, if it can be immediately obtained.

5th. Inject into the bowels a pint of spirits and water, mixed in the proportion of one part of the former and three of the latter.

By order of the Society,
HUGH WILLIAMSON,
DAVID HOSACK,
JOHN W. FRANCIS,

Committee.

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GREAT BRITAIN. HERE are at present in the University of Cambridge, 1359 members of the Senate, and 3275 members of the boards, being the largest number on record: the number in 1804 being but 2122, and in 1748 but 1500.

Conversations on Botany, illustrated by twenty engravings, will soon be published in a 12mo. volume.

Mr. Alex. Chalmers has completed that great undertaking, the new edition of the General Biographical Dictionary in 32 vols. 8vo. The magnitude of the labour may be conceived when it is known that this edition has been augmented by 3954 additional lives; of the remaining number 2176 have been rewritten, and the whole revised and corrected. The total number of articles exceeds 9000. Appended to each article are copious references to the sources whence the materials are derived.

A new work has been commenced under the title of The Continental Medical Repository; exhibiting a concise view of the latest discoveries and improvements made on the Continent in medicine, surgery, and pharmacy; conducted by E. Von Embden, and assisted by other gentlemen of the faculty. It will be published in quarterly numbers.

Dr. John Clarke, of Cambridge, has ready for publication, in two volumes, 24 Vocal Pieces, with Original Poetry, written expressly for the work, by Mrs. Joanna Baillie, Walter Scott, Esq John

Stewart, Esq. William Smyth, Esq. James Hogg, the Scots' Shepherd, and Lord Byron.

A proposal has been made in a letter addressed to a gentleman at Hull, to light up the whole of that town with the refuse of the blubber brought by the Greenland ships, which at present is not only unserviceable, but a nuisance to the neighbourhood. From a small part of this refuse, says the writer, I should, I doubt not, be able to light up the whole of Hull much better than it could be done by oil in the ordinary way, and at one-fourth of the expense, by preparing a gas from it which would excel in brilliance the gas obtained from coal, require less purification, and be less noxious. On this subject, Mr. J. B. Emmett has published some experiments which he made last summer. By distilling various oils, previously mixed with dry sand or pulverized clay, he obtained at a temperature a little below ignition, a gas which appeared to be a mixture of carbureted and super-carbureted hydrogen gases. It produces a flame equally and often much more brilliant than coalgas; and gives out no smoke, smell or unpleasant vapour. It differed very little in quality whether obtained from mere refuse or good whale sperm, almond or olive oil, or tallow. For the sake of so important a branch of our fisheries, which is threatened with serious danger by the general adoption of coal-gas for the purpose of illumination, we shall be

highly gratified to learn that the prospect of encouragement thus held forth is likely to be speedily realized.

At a meeting of the Bath Literary and Philosophical Society, Dr. Wilkinson, in remarking upon a paper presented by Dr. Wollaston relative to the theory of the diamond cutting glass, mentioned that he had some micrometers made by the late Mr. Coventry, where the lines on glass had been so finely drawn, that the cross lines formed a series of squares, so minute that 25 millions of squares are equal to no more than one square inch!!

Mr. Southey is engaged. in writing a Poem, the scene of which is laid in Connecticut, and of which the subject is King Philip's wars.

From Steel's List, May 1, 1817.-Variation of the Magnetic Needle. It does not appear, from recent observations on the variation, that the Magnetic Needle is returning again to the North; for during the last eighteen months, its declination has been found to increase several minutes; hence, its receding from its western limits becomes a question of importance to the literary world.

Among the extraordinary instances which have occurred of living animals being found deeply buried in solid substances, where they had apparently existed for ages, the following is one of the most singular.

Two coalmen, working in a coal-pit belonging to Viscount Dudley and Ward, in the parish of Tipton, in the county of Stafford, in clearing or breaking up a stratum of coal called the stone coal, about four feet thick, and lying about fifty yards from the surface of the earth, discovered a living reptile of the snake or adder kind, lying coiled up in a small cell within the said solid coal, which might be about twenty tons weight. When first discovered, the reptile moved, and soon afterwards crept out of the hole, but, upon being exposed to the air, died in about ten minutes. The thickness and solidity of the coal must have kept it entirely from the air. The hollow place in which it lay was split by means of an iron wedge, and was rather moist at the bottom, but without water. The cell was about the size of a common tea-saucer, and the - snake was about nine inches long, of a darkish ashy colour, and a little speckled. The above facts were sworn to before a magistrate, March 5th, 1817.

The University of Cambridge has lately received a donation of twenty thousand pounds sterling, from an un

known benefactor. The gift is to St. Pe ter's College.

Bonaparte is said to have denied the authenticity of the Conversations imputed to him in Warden's Letters. FRANCE.

Madame de Genlis is about publishing Memoirs of the Marquis de Dangeau, written by himself, with anecdotes relating to the age and reign of Louis 14th.

Dr. Esquirol has read to the Academy of Sciences of the Institute, a memoir on the kind of mental derangement to which he gives the name of hallucination, a new term, denoting a species of insanity, in which the patient receives through one or more senses, those impressions which sight alone otherwise conveys. In support of the principles and considerations which he has developed, he adduces some very curious facts, and among others, the case of a person, almost the only sign of whose derangement consisted in his hearing secret voices, which incessantly reproached him with something that he had done.

M. Laugier, who was the first that discovered the presence of sulphur and of chromium in aerolites, has submitted to the Academy of Sciences a memoir, in which he proves by the details of chemical analysis the identity of the elements of those substances with the enormous masses of iron found in Siberia by Pallas, and which seem in their composition and origin to be like other masses found in different parts of the world, in the midst of vast plains from all the fossils of which they differ.

Dr. Alibert has completed a very important work under the title of Nosologie naturelle, ou les Maladies du Corps hu main distribuees par Famille. It forms two 4to. volumes, each containing about 700 pages and 22 plates magnificently coloured after nature. From the extraordinary opportunities for observation enjoyed by the author as physician to the Hospital of St. Louis, and from the reputation which he has already acquired, a work of the highest professional authority may be expected in this new performance, the first volume of which will shortly appear.

M. Decandolle is engaged upon a work which cannot fail to prove highly acceptable to all the lovers of botany. It is written in Latin, and entitled: Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturele ; sive Ordines, Genera, et Species Plantarum secundum Methodi naturalis Nermas digestarum et descriptarum. It will be

the first general botanical work in which the species will be classed in natural families, and described according to the principles of that method, which, though still in some respects imperfect, has already rendered important services to the science. The first volume, containing introductory matter, and the five orders of Ranunculacea, Dilleniacea, Magnoliacea, Annonacea, and Menispermea, is just ready for publication, by Messrs. Treuttel and Wurtz, at whose new establishment in Soho-square, London, it may be procured.

General Jomini has obtained the Emperor's permission to visit Switzerland. He is occupied, it is said, in writing a history of the two last campaigns, from ma terials furnished by Field Marshal de Tolly and others.

M. Volney, who is now a Count and a Peer of France, has just published a new edition of his RUINS. This is the fifth edition, and he has accommodated it to the times, by suppressing opinions which experience has proved to be erroneous, and adding reflections which the events of a long life have suggested to him. He has also published another work, entitled, New Researches in Ancient History.

A French chemist has discovered that heated substances fall to the same temperature in elastic fluids in the inverse ratio of the gravity of the gases.

The Chevalier de Gassicourt proposes to apply the principle of the Hydraulic press of Pascal, to propelling vessels. If practicable, this would supersede the use

age, and be able to speak and write their own language correctly. The instruction is delivered in the Atheneum, but they will be at liberty to frequent the Lyceum also. The objects of instruction are-the languages, especially the ancient Greek, Latin, German, French, Italian, and English-Philology, or a critical knowledge of the ancient authors, the department of Criticism, Poetry, Mythology, and Archaiology;-Geography and History,-Mathematics, theoretical and practical;-Philosophy;-Oryctology, Botany, and Zoology, experimental Philosophy, and Chemistry. The students are lodged and boarded in the Atheneum, on the payment of one hundred florins (Dutch money); in this the expense of instruction is included.

A scientific establishment has been formed at Vienna, called the "Polytechnical Institution," upon an extensive plan, and calculated to produce very important effects, particularly upon the manufacturing and commercial interests of the Empire.

The catalogue of the late Leipsic Easter Fair occupies 330 octa vo pages, being considerably thicker than of late years, a proof of the favourable influence of the present pacific state of affairs upon the branches of trade connected with literature and the sciences.

Professor C. D. Ebeling off Hamburgh, and Professor Herman of Lubeck, have begun the publication of a new Magazine, or Literary Journal. The American department will occupy cor siderable space in this work, and be conducted by Mr. Ebeling; the African and Asiatic by Mr. Herman. It is inter.ded to devote the chief part of this work to exotic informa tion. It will appear once in two months, and six times year; and be regularly forwarded to New-York as fast as published, by the learned and excellent aythors.

SWITZERLAND.

Mr. Maillaudet of Neufchatel, announces in a foreign Journal that he has succeeded in resolving the celebrated problem of perpetual motion, so long regarded as a scientific chimera. The piece of mechanism to which he applies his principle is thus described. It is a wheel, around the circumference of which there is a certain number of tubes which alternately radiate or turn towards the centre; rendering the moving power at one time strong, at another weak, but preserving throughout such an intensity of force, that it is necessary to keep it in check by a regulater.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A violent hail storm was experienced at Cadiz, Ohio, on the 5th ult. of a very extraordinary nature. The hail stones were generally of two inches circumference, and some of them nine or ten. But a phenomenon is attested by John Busby, Esq. which transcends every thing we have ever heard of the kind. He deposes that, “before the hail ceased, there fell before his eyes, not exceeding thirty feet from him, a mass of congealed matter, which he thinks would have undoubtedly weighed between thirty and forty pounds;" that "the noise occasioned by its fall, notwithstanding it was in the woods, and on soft ground, might have been easily heard fifty rods, though it fell when storming, and when the wind blew very high and hard ;" and that “ on striking the ground, it burst into a vast number of pieces resembling hail stones, of different shapes and sizes, one of which was nearly the size of his two fists when closed."Mr. Busby is represented to be a gentleman of undoubted veracity.

The Auburn (N. Y.) Gazette of July 23, contains the following notice of a strange phenomenon. "The waters of the Owasco Lake and its outlet, passing through this village, have been singularly affected during the last week; the water, naturally very clear and pure, became very thick, of a greenish hue, emitting a most nauseous smell. Many fishes were seen floating down, some dead, others nearly exhausted. Various causes have been assigned for this phenomenon, such as, the heat of the weather, the calmness of the atmosphere, and consequent decomposition of a portion of the water. The waters have now nearly acquired their original sweetness and purity.-We are informed that the neighbouring lake, the Skaneatales, has not been affected in a similar manner-we see no reason why the like causes should not produce the like effects in both instances. Exaggerated accounts may have gone abroad respecting this affair-we state for the information of the public, that no evil consequence has arisen to the health of the inhabitants, nor do we think any is an ticipated."

The following article is extracted from a paper published at Erie, Pa. "On the Sd July, 30 miles below this place and 3 miles from land, the crew of the schooner General Scott, saw a Serpent 35 or 40 feet in length, and its neck, which it put out of the water a few yards from the vessel, ten or twelve inches in diameter. Its colour was a dark mahogony, nearly

black. The lake was smooth, and they had a perfect view of it for more than a minute."

A Sea-serpent that has lately appeared in the harbour of Gloucester, Massachusetts, has deservedly excited a great deal of attention. This monster of the deep, whose existence has hitherto been deemed fabulous, has been seen, day after day, by hundreds of our adventurous citizens, who have employed every means to capture or destroy it. Its head is said to be as large as that of a horse, its body of the size of a barrel, and its length from 80 to 100 feet..

Dr. Mitch, of this city, has received a letter from the Hon. Josiah Meigs, of the Land Office, enclosing an account which he had received from a friend in the western country, respecting a discovery of some remains of the Mammoth. The bones were found "in the East Branch of the White River, which is itself a branch of the Wabash, at a point 44 miles, in a right line, distant from the mouth of the Wabash. The Eastern Branch of White River unites with the Western Branch at a point 29 miles in a straight line, distant from the mouth of White River."

"Measurement of the upper jaw of a Mammoth, found in the Eastern Branch of White River, on the first of July, 1817, and now in the possession of Mr. Shotts, at the Falls of that Branch. Breadth of the jaw bone at the posterior exterior 201-2 inches,lengthofthe jaw 25 inches, circle of the bone 25 1-2 do. length of the posterior grinder, 5 divisions and 3 rows, 7 3-4 inches, breadth of the same across, 3 1-2 inches, depth in the bone, 6 inches. Mr. Shotts promises to make strict search for other parts of the animal-and will forward them to President Monroe."

Mr. Davis, of Hudson, Columbia County, New-York, bas in the press, the Life, Deeds, and Opinions of Doctor Martin Luther, faithfully translated from the German of John Frederick William Fisher, Superintendent at Plauen, in Saxony. By John Kortz. The work will be ready for delivery previous to the approaching Centurial Jubilee, commemorative of the reformation commenced by Martin Luther.

A few copies of a Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon, by Claudius James Rich, Esq. Resident for the Hon. East-India Company, at the Court of the Pasha of Bagdad, with Plates-have been received by James Eastburn & Co. of New-York, one of which has been purchased for the City Library The Babylonian bricks,