Great Congress q/' Philosophers at Berlin. 2^3 



an ample reward in being able to claim as entirely her own, 

 the inheritor of his talents and his name. 



The six succeeding days were occupied in the morning by 

 a meeting of the academy, at which papers of general interest 

 were read. In the afternoon, through the arrangement of M. 

 de Humboldt and M. Lichtenstein, various rooms were appropri- 

 ated for different sections of the academy. In one, the chemi- 

 cal philosophers attended to some chemical memoir, whilst the 

 botanists assembled in another room, the physiologists in a 

 third, and the natural philosophers in a fourth. Each attended 

 to the reading of papers connected with their several sciences. 

 Thus every member was at liberty to choose that section in 

 which he felt most interest at the moment, and he had at all 

 times power of access to the others. The evenings were ge- 

 nerally spent at some of i\\e soirees of the Savans resident at 

 Berlin, whose hospitality and attentions to their learned bre- 

 thren of other countries were unbounded. During the unoccu- 

 pied hours of the morning, the collections of natural history, 

 which are rapidly rising into importance, were open to exami- 

 nation, and the various professors and directors who assisted 

 the stranger in his inquiries, left him equally gratified by the 

 knowledge and urbanity of those who so kindly aided him. 



A map of Europe was printed, on which those towns only 

 appeared which had sent representatives to this scientific con- 

 gress; and the numbers sent by different kingdoms appeared 

 by the following table, which was attached to it : — 



The proportion in which the cultivators of different scien- 



