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thousand dollars, for the use of the college, beside a great 
number of | 
39. A translation of the works entire of Sir Walter Scott, 
preceded bya historical notice of the author, ame ornament- 
ed with his portrait, is about to be publi 
40. M. Bonpland, the distinguished easels who ac- 
companied Baron Humbold in $. America, has established 
himself with his family at Buenos Ayres, where he is enga- 
ged in forming a garden of rareand curious plants. He has 
already collected a great number. His researches have 
brought to light a plant which grows in water, and which 
contains a great quantity of tannin. He proposes to profit 
wb: . in re a Perot St at Parana. | 
- Lithographic printing of MSS.—A society has been 
seetii at Munich, for printing Oy the Lithographic process 
all the best manuscripts of the Turk, Arabic, Persian, and 
Tartar languages, and to spread them throughout the East by 
way of Trieste. The introduction of printing has been con- 
stantly opposed in those countries by the interested efforts 
of copyists, but still more by the difficulty, and indeed im- 
possibility of imitating by common types the various orna- 
ments which the Turks and Arabs are accustomed to attach 
to their manuscript ‘S. 
i phy affords the ae imitating them in per- 
gions 
42. Fi reke+The Emperor has given orders for the 
erection in this city of a geese exactly similar to that of 
olersen at Athens. The celebrated group ie Theseus by 
master, by executing his statue of a a see size. 
anova is seated before a torse of Jupiter, the work of which 
admire 
he appears to 
, group is greatly admired for dignity of expression, 
as well as for its deignsiay, and the skill with which the 
drapery Is disposed. 
