Memoirs of science and the arts [electronic resource] : Or A general abridgment of the transactions published by the principal learned and œconomical societies established in the different parts of the world: consisting of a member of curious and interesting articles in agriculture, botany, history, antiquities, biography, chemistry, mechanics, &c. &c. The whole selected with judgment from the transactions of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies of London and Edinburgh; the Linnæan Society; Society for the Encouragement of Arts; the Bath Agricultural Society; Royal Irish Academy; Philosophical Society at Manchester; American Philosophical Society; the African Association; Society of Natural History at Paris; Royal Society of Gottingen; Society of Natural Philosophy and Academy of Sciences and Belles Letters at Berlin; the Asiatic Transactions, &c. By a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, of London. In three parts. Illustrated with twenty nine copperplates.