a new Mineral Species. - 7 



ments and in patriotic zeal, who has been most forward in esta- 

 blishing the National Museum at Prague, an establishment emi- 

 nently calculated to be useful to traveUers, who thus find 

 means to examine at once the productions of the country ; but 

 still more important for the inhabitants, to whom it affords an 

 opportunity of acquiring information in various branches of 

 knowledge, and among whom, in particular, it diffuses a taste for 

 the natural sciences. 



