)6-2 Notices respecting New Books. 



During his stay at Lund, Charles manifested a predilection 

 For every thing relating to the sciences. He attended the 

 lectures of the professors ; and one day, when he found 

 them all collected in the library, he testified a desire of in- 

 stantly hearing some public thesis disputed. No person was 

 prepared for such a proposition ; Jean Jacques Doebeln, 

 howev^er, professor of medicine, pronounced extempore an 

 elegant Latin address to the king, and gave this thesis as a 

 subject for discussion : Ohjecta Jiiovent sensus, non lam ra- 

 tione quanlitatis, quam quaUlatis. Ouensel, professor of 

 mathematics, undertook to attack him. 



Although this subject is a very abstract one, the king, in 

 spite of his vivacitv, lent every possible attention to the 

 academical disputation he had thus provoked. As a mark 

 of his esteem for professor Doebeln, he conferred upon him 

 the dignity of nobility, and increased his salaries. 



The chemical laboratory, the concert-room appropriated 

 to the musical exercises of the students, and the hall where 

 the public sales of books take place, are in a separate build- 

 ing in front of the entrance to the cathedral. In another 

 building there is an armoury, which, in winter, is made use 

 of for balls and assemblies. 



The number of students is 150. Every three years the 

 faculty of philosophy creates forty masters of arts. The ex- 

 aminations of this faculty, and of that of jurisprudence, take 

 place in public, and minutes are drawn up of the questions 

 and answers. The faculty of phUosophy has three ways of 

 expressing their opinion upon the degree of talents possessed 

 by the candidates, and the following are the terms made use 

 of: laudatur, apprnbatur, admittitur. 



One of the first public functirtnaries of the state is always 

 chosen as chancellor of the university. The academical 

 senate names him, and the king confirms the nomination. 

 The bishop of Scania and Blekingen is always vice-chancel- 

 lor. This university has sixteen professors, thirteen aggrcgcs 

 or adjuncts, and fourteen masters of arts, who give lectures, 

 and are called docenles or 7nagistri legentes. The salaries 

 of the professors are paid in coin, and they are tolerably 

 large ; some of them are, besides, titulars of good livings, 



which 



