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many. Privy counsellor Jacobi is still tallied of as its prN ^ 



sident. Among the other academicians, whose names have 

 been mentioned, are Mr. Seyffer, whom the emperOr Napo- 

 leon appointed engineer geographer in the war against Rus- 

 sia and Austria, and who has been director of the observa-^ ^ 

 tbry at Gottingen ; Eichhorn, the historian and orientalist, 

 whom the king^has likewise called from Gottingen ; Wiebe- 

 king, of Vienna, whose skill in hydraulics has already been 

 of service to the kingdom ; and Wolf, known by a very good 

 history of the Jesuits, to whom all the archives of Bavaria 

 are opened, for the purpose of his compiling a national his- 

 tory. 



The royal library, which is already a very good one, will l^oyal library 

 be increased by a committee appointed to select for it every 

 thing of value in the libraries that are suppressed. 



The collection of paintings at Munich has long been ce- Collection of 

 lebrated; but, -since the galleries of Manheim and Dussel- ^ ^ *'^* 

 dorf have been added to it, it is unquestionably the finest 

 in Europe, next to the Napoleon Museum. 



A decree has been issued at Naples for forming 'a society Royal Acade- 

 consisting of forty men of letters, to be called the Royal &^AmruiU« 

 Academy of History and Antiquities. The first twenty at Naples, 

 members are to be named by the king; and when these have 

 assembled, they are to nominate three persons for each of 

 the remaining vacancies, out of whom the king will choose 

 one to fill it. It is to have a perpetual secretary appointed 

 by the king, and to choose its own president for three 

 months. The directors of the museum, excavations, and 

 royal printing office, are always to be chosen from its mem- 

 bersi The academicians are to be admitted at court. 



Mr. John Maeltz, of Vienna, has exhibited at Paris a Mechanical 

 musical machine of his invention, to which he has ariven the ^'"i^^tion of 

 name of panharmomcon, 1 his machme, moved entirely by instruments 

 springs, gives the sounds of vairious wind instruments with ^"^ others. 

 a clearness and perfection never before attained. The in- 

 struments that compose it are the gerrnan flute, flagelet, 

 clarinet, hautboy, bassoon, horn, trombone, serpent, and 

 trumpet ; beside kettle drums, a great drum, cymbals, a 

 triangle, &c. Pieces are performed by it with great preci- 

 sion, and the forte and piano distinctly marked. The exe- 



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