76 Double Stars and the 
Scarpa, and received from the Royal Society of London a 
gold medal for the discovery of his condenser. In 1801 he 
was at Paris, where he explained his pile; the Institute de- 
creed to him a gold medal as a testimony of its admiration, 
and he was placed among the number of the eight foreign 
associates of that learned body. Advantageous offers were 
afterwards made to draw him to the great capitals, but he 
preferred his country to the brilliant prospects which were 
ae, to him; he was no less, on this account, the Euro- 
avant, so true it is, that true genius has no need of a 
lathe thistieie, to be known and appreciated to its just extent. 
. olta, aged hinsel weary, retired to Como, where he contin- 
ued to occupy himself with philosophy, and particularly with 
mete ~ ee ite been 
i i ip epee retin March nite 
pursuit of science! If one by his i inventive genius, has open- 
ed a new career to the sagacity of the human mind, the 
other, by a foree of conception which raised. him to the most 
sublime generalizations, has traced a route which ‘no person, 
perhaps, will attempt: to follow. The'theory of the 
by Newton can-expect no future Laplace ; mere of 
electricity an owes its great progress to Volta, has right 
to ask —A. D. L. R. Bib. Univ. Juillet, 1997 
ce by Prof. John Gatieodas) 
= eal year 1824 the Meier vesir 
} y of Dorpat in Livonia, 
furnish zrand achromatic Telescope of Fraun- 
imstrument of the kind ever ‘con- 
