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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Edinburgh University. — The Royal Commission for visiting the Scottish Uni- 

 rersities has now given in its report, and is consequently dissolved. We look 

 arixioiisly for the judgment which may be passed upon those flagrant mal- 

 practices which we have already exposed, and evidence of which will thus be 

 brought before the country. 



Lectures on Comparative Anatomy. — A course of lectures on the comparative 

 anatomy and physiology of the Mammalia, (founded on the course of M. de 

 Blainville,) is being delivered in Edinburgh this winter by Mr. T. W. Jones, 

 a gentleman whose minute and extensive knowledge of anatomy eminently 

 qualifies him for the task. 



Multum in parvo — On the 25th March 1829, notice was given that in the 

 course of the ensuing Session of the Wernerian Society, Professor Jameson 

 would read an Essay, to be entitled, " Man traced from the monadal to the 

 perfect state, and contrasted in the different stages of his growth with various 

 tribes of animals, from the zoophyte to the orang outang." The scientific 

 world wait on the tip-toe of anxious expectation. 



Zoological Society of Dublin. — A zoological society has recently been formed 

 in Dublin, on the plan of the London Society. 



Papal persecution of Science. — An English gentleman, recently returned from 

 the continent, informs us that in March last he entered the papal territories 

 at Civita Vecchia with a collection of plants gathered in the neighbourhood of 

 Perpignan, Thoulouse, &c. in the Bas Pyrenees, and that the myrmidons of 

 an ignorant and superstitious High Priest immediately seized and confiscated 

 his little herbarium, as illegal goods, and militant against the Papal power. 



Veterinary Art in Austria. — In the German provinces belonging to the crown 

 of Austria, the government has made several appointments of veterinary sur- 

 geons, (there styled " physicians,") and granted them an annual allowance of 

 fifty pounds. These appointments are by preference bestOAved on individuals who 

 have studied and been examined, or have graduated at the Veterinary Insti- 

 tution in Vienna, — ^have filled the office of teacher, and have been bred in that 

 school. The government appoints the place where they are to exercise their 

 functions — Athenaeum, 



Museum of the Andersonian University of Glasgow — The managers of Ander- 

 son's University have purchased the entire ornithological collection of Joseph 

 Sabine, Esq. F.R.S. consisting of upwards of two thousand specimens. We un- 

 derstand that the collection of arctic birds is unrivalled, and what is of greater 

 consequence, the British collection is perhaps the finest ever formed. The 

 splendid hall which is to contain the Museum, is rapidly approaching to com- 

 pletion. 



