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Strasburg. 
Hererman.—* Professor of Botany. I have seldom 
conversed with a man of a more acute or more 
enlarged mind.” 
ScHurRER.—“ Nor was I less obliged to Professor 
Schurer, teacher of Philosophy.” 
Lawtru.—* Professor of Anatomy, a man of ability.” 
Naples. 
N. Pacirico.—*“ A zealous botanist and able ma- 
thematician. His library possesses four vo- 
lumes of the botanical plates of Cupani, an un- 
published work of the most extreme scarcity.” 
Dr. Cyrititi1.—<His garden contains some rare 
plants, and his library and old herbarium were 
made by Jmperato.” 
“Don Firrerpo Cavo.ini is the most ingenious 
and indefatigable naturalist in this part of the 
world; whose observations on corals and other 
marine animals rival those of our illustrious 
Ellis for extent and fidelity.” 
Genoa. 
Durazzo.— Science is a plant of slow growth, nor 
is it yet a fashionable pursuit among the Ge- 
noese. The Durazzo family stand almost sin- 
gle as its encouragers. The Senator Marcellino 
Durazzo, owner of the great palace in Strada 
Balbi, has a romantic country-seat at Pino, 
where he very kindly received us, and gave an 
entertaining narrative of his going to France 
in the year 1747, to solicit the assistance of 
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