'Took the 1st vol of Lodges' "Illustrations of British History" to the Library; I brought the 2nd volume; the 5th volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" not beeing yet come in. Brought also the "European Mag" for Jan 1798. It contains proposals from Dr Gleig (the editor of the last 6 vols of the Encyclopedia Britannica). For publishing 2 supplementary volumes at 25 s a volume, in which will be particularly contained the new theory of chemistry.'