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fore the ISth iilt.; and that all 

 the other men of war on the Lee- 

 ward-Island station had escaped 

 the fury of the storm. 



22. From a return niiide by 

 Lieutenant-general Conite de Ge- 

 rardin, charged with the office of 

 grand hunter (grandveneiir) to 

 his Majesty, it appears that, in 

 the 86 departments of tlie king- 

 dom of France, 2,416 wolves have 

 been destroyed between the 1st of 

 January, 1816, and the 1st of 

 July, 1817. Of tlicsc 1,804; were 

 males, and r.22 females. In La 

 Vendee 54 were killed, in the 

 Vosges 171, in the Ardennes 1 1 9, 

 in the Aude 128, in Avcyron 45, 

 and in La Creuse 94. Out of the 

 86 departments of France, 61 

 appear by this list to contain, 

 more or less, considerable num- 

 bers of this destructive animal. 



24 Dr. Donald M'Askill, of 

 tlie island of Eitca:, was unfor- 

 tunately drowned off that island, 

 on the '24 th vUt. He was pro- 

 ceeding from Arisaig to l^^igg, in 

 a boat, along witiv the Rev. Mi-. 

 Fraser, minister of the Small Isles, 

 when, by the starting of a plank, 

 the boat instantly sunk, and he 

 and ISIr. Fraser, with two men, 

 perished. 



2.T. The Prussian government 

 continues to grant considerable 

 sums towards defraying the ck- 

 penses incurred by learned men 

 on their travels j and permits 

 them also to di-aw on the funds of 

 different public- establishments, 

 and among others, the Acariemy 

 of Sciences at lierlin. Professors 

 Reaumer and \'onder Flagen, of 

 I5resl;ui, have made, at the ex- 

 pense of the kinic, a tour throniih 

 (jermany and Italy, for the j>ur- 

 pose of visiting all the principal 



libraries and Collections j they 

 have both lately returned to Ber- 

 lin with the results of their re- 

 searches. Professor Reaumer has 

 made important discoveries rela- 

 tive lo the liistory of Germany in 

 tlie middle ages, on Avhich he is 

 about to publish an imj)ortant 

 work. Professor Vonder Hagen 

 has confined his I'esearches chiefly 

 to the manuscripts of the ancient 

 German poets. 



Another professor of Brcslau, 

 Di'. Schottky, has been employed 

 in making researches in the Im- 

 ))erial Academy of Menna, and 

 the nvimerous scientific collections 

 of that cajiital. Professor Keph; - 

 lides and Fosthcr, alfo of Breslau^ 

 are now preparing an account of 

 the interesting tour which they 

 made in 1813 and 1814 in Italy 

 and in Sicily. This important 

 work will appcnr at Leipsic, in 

 tlie Faster fair of 1818. M. Ger- 

 mer, Profi?sor of Mineralogy in 

 the Prussian university of Halle, 

 has sent to the press an account 

 of his journey in Dalmatia and 

 Ragnsa. It contains very curious 

 details on the present state of 

 those countries, their mineralogy 

 and entomology, and also on the 

 inhabitants. 



Professors Becker and Goeschen 

 are travelling in Italy, The for- 

 mer is to collate all the most im- 

 portant manuscri]5ts for his new 

 edition of the Greek classics, and 

 to examine all the ancient inscrip- 

 tions for a great work on Roman 

 antiquities Mhich the academy of 

 Berlin intends to jmblish. M. 

 Goeschen is employed to verify 

 tlie ancient codes, and to make 

 other critical researches on the 

 subject of juris])iudence, which 

 he professes with so much ability 



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