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Scientific Intelligence.

Citizen Berthollet communicated a notice on a particular acid which lie had . discovered , and to which he gives the name of . the zoolnic acid , because it is extracted essentially from animal substances . Citizen Dolomieu read a memoir on the Tourmalines found in Mount St . Gothard , the object , of which was to examine how far colour , considered as a character of stone , can determine its nature .

Lastly , the new experiments of Citizen Vauquelin on the red lead of Siberia , and the new earth which he found in the beryl , or aigue marin , were the subject of another memoir .

PYROTECHNICS , THE Paris papers announce , that an experiment is soon to be made there with a balloon that will continually discharge a shower of fire , by means of a machine which they denominate infernale . BOTANY . IK the neihbourhood of Oporto there is still standing in a garden

g , which about 30 years ago was in the occupation of Mr . Wood , an Eng lish merchant many years resident there , a surprisingly large orange tree , which at that time usually produced the vast number of 15 , 000 or 16 , 000 oranges in one season . The tree is now in a decaying state , but it is still looked upon by the nei ghbouring inhabitants with a sort of veneration , and they point it out as an objeft

worthy the attention of all strangers . The cocoa-tree is the most profitable plant in the known world . Numberless instances have been known of a single acre of cocoa-trees , in the island of Jamaica , producing to the owner a clear profit of upwards of icot .

NATURAL HISTORY . ON the 19 th of April , a cat in the Grass-Market , Edinburgh , brought forth a kitten of a curious description : it has eight legs and four ears ; two of the latter are close together upon the top of the head , the-others in the usual places . From the navel , backwards , it separates , and has all the parts complete of two , —one male , and the

other female . The fore parts are of those of a single animal , excepc the ears and legs . It was haired and full-grown , and probably had come into the world alive .

MINERALOGY . UPON the authority of the late Mr . Wedgewood , every succeeding mineralogist has given theSidnea , by some called the Austerralis , as a distinct genus of earth . Professor Klapro . th lately made some experiments by which he thought himself warranted to reject it ; but Mr . Nicholson in his Journal doubted whether his experiments were

rnade on the same substance , which doubts have been completely removed by a course of experiments made with the most scrupulous accuracy , by Charles Hatchet , Esq . On the present occasion every suspicion of inaccuracy , from the subject employed being different , is completely removed ; for the remainder of the identical specimen analysed by Mr . Wedgewood , was by Sir Joseph Banks put into the

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LONDON: Article 1
TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 2
MEMOIR OF THE COUNTESS OF DERBY, Article 3
DESCRIPTION OF THE SOURCE OF THE RHINE, Article 4
WISDOM AND FOLLY. Article 7
HAWKESWORTH'S NOTES on ROBERTSON'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. Article 10
LETTER II. Article 12
PROCEEDINGS OF A GREAT COUNCIL OF JEWS, Article 14
COLVILLE. Article 17
THE LIFE OF XIMENES, ARCHBISHOP OF TOLEDO. Article 23
A BRIEF ENQUIRY INTO THE LEARNING OF SHAKSPEARE. Article 29
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 33
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 38
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 41
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 45
POETRY. Article 47
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 49
IRISH PARLIAMENT. Article 55
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 56
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 57
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Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.

Scientific Intelligence.

Citizen Berthollet communicated a notice on a particular acid which lie had . discovered , and to which he gives the name of . the zoolnic acid , because it is extracted essentially from animal substances . Citizen Dolomieu read a memoir on the Tourmalines found in Mount St . Gothard , the object , of which was to examine how far colour , considered as a character of stone , can determine its nature .

Lastly , the new experiments of Citizen Vauquelin on the red lead of Siberia , and the new earth which he found in the beryl , or aigue marin , were the subject of another memoir .

PYROTECHNICS , THE Paris papers announce , that an experiment is soon to be made there with a balloon that will continually discharge a shower of fire , by means of a machine which they denominate infernale . BOTANY . IK the neihbourhood of Oporto there is still standing in a garden

g , which about 30 years ago was in the occupation of Mr . Wood , an Eng lish merchant many years resident there , a surprisingly large orange tree , which at that time usually produced the vast number of 15 , 000 or 16 , 000 oranges in one season . The tree is now in a decaying state , but it is still looked upon by the nei ghbouring inhabitants with a sort of veneration , and they point it out as an objeft

worthy the attention of all strangers . The cocoa-tree is the most profitable plant in the known world . Numberless instances have been known of a single acre of cocoa-trees , in the island of Jamaica , producing to the owner a clear profit of upwards of icot .

NATURAL HISTORY . ON the 19 th of April , a cat in the Grass-Market , Edinburgh , brought forth a kitten of a curious description : it has eight legs and four ears ; two of the latter are close together upon the top of the head , the-others in the usual places . From the navel , backwards , it separates , and has all the parts complete of two , —one male , and the

other female . The fore parts are of those of a single animal , excepc the ears and legs . It was haired and full-grown , and probably had come into the world alive .

MINERALOGY . UPON the authority of the late Mr . Wedgewood , every succeeding mineralogist has given theSidnea , by some called the Austerralis , as a distinct genus of earth . Professor Klapro . th lately made some experiments by which he thought himself warranted to reject it ; but Mr . Nicholson in his Journal doubted whether his experiments were

rnade on the same substance , which doubts have been completely removed by a course of experiments made with the most scrupulous accuracy , by Charles Hatchet , Esq . On the present occasion every suspicion of inaccuracy , from the subject employed being different , is completely removed ; for the remainder of the identical specimen analysed by Mr . Wedgewood , was by Sir Joseph Banks put into the

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