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inscribed with the name of that prince, and none of them 

 being older than the short period during which the prince 

 of Anjou sat on the throne of Poland. 



VACCINATION. 



A letter from Copenhagen, dated April 27th, says, 

 *' The King has received with great satisfaction the last rc- 

 jjort of the commission for the vaccine inoculation, and at 

 the same time resolved, that their labours shall be continued. 

 He has given orders also, that the clergy, at baptisms, and 

 on other proper occasions, shall recommend to parents to 

 have their children inoculated, and that all medical men, 

 when thev establish themselves in business, shall enter into 

 an engagement to promote vaccination as much as possible. 

 Accordiutf to a general estimate made m the report, 4b0 

 pieces of glass, with vaccine matter, have in the course 

 of last year been distributed ; namely, 230 to different 

 places in Denmark ; 1 1 7 to Norway ; 39 to the Duchies ; 

 30 to Iceland ; 30 to Greenland ; 4 to China ; 8 to the 

 East ludies, and the rest to Sweden, In Copenhagen, 

 during the last year, 1007 persons were inoculated; and in 

 the whole kingdom 7085 ; making altogether a total of 

 28966 inoculated in the three last years, since the intro- 

 duction of this practice. 



BOTANV. 



In honour of Count Alexis Razumofsky, of Mosco, 

 Professor Sprengel, of Halle, has given the name of Ua- 

 zuinov'ia to a trenus of plants belonging to the Syngencsla 

 Puh/gdinia cecji/alis flosci/tosa ; and which stands next to the 

 Evpciloriinn and Piqi/cria. Its generic characters are: 



Cabjx imbricutus, biflorus, ^quamis cariosis laxis. 



Roc. nudum. 



Pal)p. 0. 



Sem. terctia, glnndulosa. 



'I'he species is Raziiniorui paiiicuhitu. 



M. S|)rengel obtained it, bv mc:ans of a friend, from the 

 herbal of Sir Joseph Banks. 



DHATH. 



Professor Vahl, who died at Copenhagen on ihe lOlh of 

 December last, was born at Jkrgin, in Norway, on the 

 jOlh of October, 174 9. In the year 1766 lie left the 

 school of Bergen, and entered at the university of Copen- 

 hncrcn, where he studied a year. From 1767 to 1769 he 



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