nutes ; and he will, no doubt, push these the summer, the British surveyors are to be ingenious and interesting experiments much joined by two eminent French academicifarther.-It appears that such earth will ans, with a view of connecting the trigonoabsorb the hundredth part of its weight of metrical surveys of the two countries, and moisture without having its power sensibly thus not only attaining a greater degree of impaired, and is even capable of absorbing geographical accuracy, but obtaining, peras much as the tenth part. It can hence haps, à more satisfactory solution of the easily be made to freeze the eighth part of problem respecting the true figure of the its weight of water, and might even repeat earth. The French gentlemen appointed the process again. In hot countries, the to assist Colonel Mudge and Captain Colby powder will, after each process, recover its are, M. Biot and M. Mathieu of the Insti. power by drying in the sun. Ice may there- tute of France, whose principal object is, to fore be procured in the tropical climates, measure the length of the pendulum at and even at sea, with very little trouble, and Greenwich, Edinburgh, and the Orkneys. no sort of risk or inconvenience.

A new and ingenious instrument, called In the Bath Literary and Philosophical the Colorigrade, has lately been constructed Society, the Rev. Mr Wright has described by M. Biot, for giving names to different a very ingenious method of working a ship's colours, according to the place which they pump by mechanical means, when the crew occupy in Newton's scale. By this means are too few in number to attend to that du- colours may be described accurately and ty, and particularly in a heavy gale. It was scientifically. used by Capt. Leslie in June last, during a A new species of resin from India, has voyage from Stockholm to America, when been analysed by J. F. Daniell, Esq. F.R.S. the crew were exhausted with pumping, and It consists of the ship was sinking. He fixed a spar 2- Extractive matter soluble in water, 0.4 loft, one end of which was ten or twelve feet Resin soluble in alcohol and ether, 62.6 above the top of his pumps, and the other Resin insoluble in alcohol and ether, 37.0 extremity projected over the stern; to each end of the spar he fastened a block : he then

100.0 fastened a rope to the spears of his pump, It forms a very admirable varnish, which is and after passing it through both pulleys a- not only highly transparent, but bears the long the spar, dropped it into the sea astern : heat of the warmest climate without crackto this end he fastened a cask of 110 gallons ing or changing colour. measurement, and containing 60 or 70 gal. Mr Pond, the astronomer royal, has dislons of water, which answered as a balance covered in the stars a Aquilæ á Lyræ, and weight: and the motion of the ship made a Cygni, a constant parallax of half a se the machinery work. When the stern of cond; but he is disposed to ascribe it to the ship descended, or any agitation of the some other cause than that of the ordinary water raised the cask, the pump-spears de- parallax. Dr Brinkley of Dublin found scended, and the contrary motion raised the the parallax to be two seconds. spear, and the water flowed out.

A stone is said to have been lately found was thus cleared in four hours,

at Pompeii, on which the linear measures At a meeting of the commissioners ap- of the Romans are engraved. pointed to manage the yearly grant of The Congo sloop of war is arrived at £10,000, voted by Parliament for finishing Deptford. Several large cases, containing the college of Edinburgh, the plan of Mr the natural productions of Africa, collected W. Playfair being adopted, the prize of 100 in the late expedition to the Congo, have guineas was adjudged to that gentleman. been sent to Sir Joseph Banks, for the purAccording to Mr Playfair's plan, the exter- pose of being assorted in their respective ior of the building, as originally planned by classes : many of them are of a kind hitherAdams, is to be retained with very little al. to unknown, and the whole will shortly be teration ; but there will be a total departure submitted to the inspection of the public. from the internal arrangements. The south- Mr Murray has succeeded in fusing two ern side of the quadrangle is to be occupied emeralds into one uniform mass ; also two almost entirely by the library, which will sapphires into one, by the compressed mixbe 190 feet long, and one of the most ele- ture of the gaseous constituents of water in gant rooms in the kingdom. The western the oxihydrogen blow pipe. side is to be appropriated to the museum, Mr Locateli, the celebrated mathema. and the other two sides are to be occupied tician of Milan, has invented a new piece chiefly as class rooms.

of mechanism (says a Paris paper), by means A new mode of giving additional strength of which vessels may ascend rivers without to iron and steel, is proposed by Mr Daniell. the assistance of a steam-engine. The first His plan is to twist metal in the same man- experiment, which was made on a small ner as strength and compactness are given boat, completely succeeded. The inventor to hemp and flax.

asserts, that his plan is applicable even to a The trigonometrical survey of Great Bri. man of war, and that it will secure her from tain, under the direction of the Ordnance the danger of shipwreck. The strength of Board, proceeds without interruption. The a single man, or at most that of a horse, is maps of three-fifths of England and Wales sufficient to put this machine in motion. are already completed. In the course of

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