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It is probable that \vc may shortly have an opportunity of 

 publishing a translation of Mme. Power's original memoir, 

 read to the Genoese Academy; and we shall suspend, until 

 then, any observations upon the nature of the conclusions 

 which this lady has deduced from her experiments. 



Scientific Expeditions. — We have received some details re- 

 specting the more dangerous of the two expeditions, which 

 have been undertaken this year, at the expense of the Impe- 

 rial Academy of St. Petersburgh ; viz. that of M. de Baer, to 

 Nova Sembla ; and that of M. Parrot to the North Cape. — 

 In the night of July 14th, M. de Baer arrived at the coast of 

 Lapland, and set sail from thence on the 24th. Within five 

 days the expedition reached the entrance of the Matotschkin- 

 Schar, or the great straits separating the two islands of Nova 

 Sembla. The north wind had cleared the sea of ice, and ex- 

 cursions were made from that point to every quarter, as well 

 as communications established with the walrus-hunters. The 

 district toward the Carian sea was still covered with ice, which 

 afterwards broke up, so that a boat could enter it; here stormy 

 weather exposed the expedition to great danger. On the 13th 

 of August they met with immense numbers of Beroe, in icy 

 cold water, whose swimming-bladders presented a most beau- 

 tiful variety of colours. On their return, they found on an 

 island near Beluga Bay, Rossmyslow's hut, (who had winter- 

 ed there in 1767), where they recruited. On August 16th 

 they sailed through the straits of Matotschkin, which in the 

 mean time had become quite free from ice ; and then to the 

 south, as the wind was from the north. After landing in a 

 bay, still without a name, and surveying Kostin-Schar, as well 

 as the mouth of the Nachwatowa, where part of the crew was 

 almost lost in hunting the rein-deer, the season heing already 

 much advanced, (end of August), they repaired to the penin- 

 sula of Kola, (Lapland). 



The expedition was, upon the whole, very successful ; and 

 the collections obtained are comparatively rich. They con- 

 sist of 90 Phanerogamous, and about 50 Cryptogamous plants, 

 and more than 70 invertebrated marine animals. 



M. Solomon Miiller has at length returned to Heidelberg, 

 after an absence of fourteen years, of which three were spent 

 in Sumatra, and most of the rest in other parts of the East 

 Indies. He has penetrated very far into the interior of Bor- 

 neo, and has brought from thence a specimen of the Orang- 

 Utang, between 6 and 7 feet in height. 



Dr. Gaimard, the well-known traveller, is making prepara- 

 tions for a scientific tour through Scandinavia, up to the 



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