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The Imperial Academy of Sciences, at Petersburgh, has published the thirteenth volume of its Memoirs, with the title of Nova Acta Academiæ Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitane. To this volume is prefixed the history of the Academy from 1795 to 1796, and biographical accounts of ten academicians, who have died since that period; among whom is the celebrated naturalist, ERIC LAXMAN, who was born at Abo, in Finland, in 1737, and died near Tobolsk, in Siberia, in 1795. Among the reports made to the Academy, is one on the direction of balloons, and another on M. Pallas's Travels in Tauris. The mathematical memoirs inserted in this volume, are thirteen in number, four of which are by the celebrated Euler. The department of physical sciences, comprehends, among others, an interesting memoir on the mines of Siberia, by M. Herman, under the title of Description of the celebrated Silver Mine of Zmeof, or Mount Altai, in Siberia. This mine, which has long been known, has been wrought only since 1745, at the expense of the crown.-The quantity of ore obtained from it annually amounts to 1,200,000 puds; and the total produce from 1747 to 1793, was 34,441 puds of silver, among which was about 1000 puds of gold. The pud weighs from thirtyfive to forty pounds, so that this produce may be estimated at forty-four millions of rubles, or about a million a year. astronomical memoirs are three in number. One, by M. Henry, contains Observations on the Planet Venus; the second, by M. Stephen Rumowsky, treats of the Figure of the Earth; the third is a supplement to Euler's Theory of the Moon, by M. Schubert.

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FOR THE MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY.

[If we had room we intended to insert from the Monthly Magazine a copious memoir on the subject of the following obituary; but we must content ourselves with the following facts, and a reference to M. M. vol. 17.]

On Friday the second day of February were entombed here the remains of the Rev. THOMAS FYSHE PALMER, whose history must be known to most of our readers. The fate of this gentleman is truly interesting. In the year 1800 the term of his exile at New Holland had expired; and he had made preparations for returning to England. He set sail from

Port Jackson, and after many disasters' in the course of a long and various voyage, he was compelled to put into the island of Guam, one of the Ladrones. Here he was detained by the Spanish governour as a prisoner of war, fell sick of a dysentery, to which he had been frequently subject, and died June 2, 1802. He was not allowed to be buried with the common funeral rites, because he was not a Catholick; but his bones were suffered to remain, (as we understand,) near the shore, whether buried or not, we cannot say. An American, captain Samuel W. Balch, of this town, who was there some time after this event, and was interested in the circumstances, humanely considered that he should receive the thanks of Mr. Palmer's numerous friends if he took charge of these remains, and waited for directions from England as to the disposal of them. He obtained from the Spanish governour permission to take them, and a certificate by which they were identified. Mr. Palmer's relations in England, when informed that they were brought to this town, provided for their decent interment. The ceremony was attended by a few gentlemen who felt interested in his character and lamented his fate; and as he had been once ordained a clergyman of the church of England, the funeral service was performed by the Rev. Mr. Gardiner, Rector of Trinity Church, under which the remains of Mr. Palmer are deposited. A marble tablet, placed upon his coffin, contains the following inscription, which the writer hopes will not be unacceptable to Mr. Palmer's friends in England, some of whom he has the happiness to number among his own.

Here lies the body of THOMAS FYSHE PALMER;

Born in Bedfordshire, England, 1747;

Entered of Queen's College, Cambridge: M. A. 1772. B. D. 1781.
Ordained a clergyman of the church of England;

Which he afterwards left, and became a zealous Unitarian;
Exiled 1793, to New Holland for seven years on a charge of Sedition;
Returning in 1800, he was compelled to put into the island of Guam,
Where, being detained by the Spaniards as a prisoner of war,

He fell sick, and died June 2, 1802.

By the care of Capt. Samuel W. Balch, his remains were brought to this town

And decently interred Feb. 2, 1810.

Vir erat doctus, ingeniosus, dilectissimus, et, si rempublicam nulla ex parte attigisset, omni

laude cumulandus,

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