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which considerably increases their incomes without adding 

 to their labours, as they are entitled to fulfil their clerical 

 duties by a chaplain, to whom they allot oiilv a small part 

 of the emoluments. When a professorship becomes va- 

 cant, the consistory or senatus academicus proposes three 

 candidates, out of whom ihe king chooses one. 



There are two printing-houses at Lund, that of the uni- 

 versity belongs to M. Berling. M. Anders Lidbeck, son of 

 the botanical professor of this university, publishes a weekly 

 journal entitled " Nytt och Ganmial," i. e. "Modern 

 and Antient Times." The short distance between Lund 

 and Copenhagen enables the learned men of this university 

 to have a greater facility of conmiunication between Den- 

 mark and Germany than their philosophical brethren of 

 Upsal and Abo. Thirty years ago a literary society was 

 established under the name of the Physiographical Society ; 

 it has published several useful works, which evince the so- 

 lidity of the acquirements of its members. 



Professor Retzius possesses a fine cabinet of natural his- 

 tory ; there is a very fine collection of seeds in it. The 

 cabinet of M. Flormann, adjunct of the faculty of medicine, 

 is particularly interesting from the great number of prepa- 

 rations it contains relative to veterinary uicdicine ; and 

 M. Fremling, professor of speculative philosophy, has a 

 very fine mineralogical cabinet, plenty of rare medals, and an 

 extensive library. 



The cathedral is the grandest building in the small ciiv of 

 Lund ; it is the only remains of its antient splendour. This 

 mass «f stones, which seems to have been heaped up by the 

 hands of giants, in order to brave eternity, has been from 

 the earliest periods regarded as one of the wonders of Swe- 

 den. Swenon, king of Denmark, began the building of this 

 edifice in 1012; but the time when it was finished is un- 

 known. It was consecrated in 1 145 by archbishop Eskild. 

 It is the largest church in all Sweden, and it is said that it a 

 good deal resembles the cathedral of Spires. Before the Ke- 

 i'ormation, there were at least fifty altars in different chajicls, 

 all richly endowed. It is of the ibrm of a cross, and, ac- 

 cording to vulgar tradition, its two towers represent the two 

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