SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 299 



The Univerfity is under the care of the Minifter of public 

 infttudion : It has, however, its own particular administration q^™^^ 

 and jurifdiclion ; the ordinances, by which its members are regulations. 

 governed, are regulated by itfelf: It has the right of cenfure ^ us P rivi - 

 both with regard to the books printed by itfelf, or thofe 

 brought from abroad. All articles which it may want are 

 allowed to pafs the frontiers without examination or tax. Its 

 corrcfpondence is poft free, and its paper is not fubjeft to 

 duty. The houfes of the profeflbrs are free from taxes and 

 .all charges. The profeflbrs have the rank of the feventh Frovifion for 

 clafs, and the fludents that of the twelfth, or that of fubaltem P rofcir ° rs > &c ' 

 officers, receive commiffion as fucb, and wear fwords. The 

 profeflbrs after twenty-five years duty, or in cafe of incurable 

 ficknefs, receive their penfions for life, and may even receive 

 them while refident in other countries. On the death of a 

 profeflbr, his widow and children continue to receive hiss 

 penlion, until the widow marries again,, or the children 

 attain the age of twenty-one years. The Emperor has 

 granted a yearly revenue to the Univerfity of 130,000 rubles. 



Botanic Garden> fyc. at Copenhagen. 



A fura of 4,500 rix dollars, which the government had 

 granted in \ 80:3, for the Botanic Garden at Copenhagen, 

 has been employed, partly in paying the debts of the eftablifh- 

 ment, and partly in conftrufiing a new hot-houfe. This has 5500 plant? 

 garden, which pofleffes 3,500 plants of different kinds, j s ^^peOion, 

 open one day in each week, for the curious, and every day 

 for botanic ftudents. The directors in their laft report, hav- 

 tng.made fome propofals for the improvement and eftablifh- 

 ment of the garden, the government has granted them an 

 additional fum of ' 4000 rix dollars, and an annual fum of additional grants 

 £00 for repairs; and have befides fettled, that the appoint- ma 

 ments of perfons employed in the garden, fliall be increafed 

 to 720 rix dollars, to commence this year. 



M. Giefecke, a Pruffian mineralogifr, who ha$ been a Propofed mine- 



oonfiderable time at Copenhagen, is about to be employed raIo S lca l ex P ed i- 

 . ° ' ,,, J tIon t0 Green- 



by government on a voyage to Greenland, where he is to land. 



pafs fome years in examining that country, with regard to its 



mineralogy and geology. Hitherto the Moravian religious 



miffionaries have alone been able to refolve to live fome 



years 



