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example, tra for some days, and moves’ its limbs after the 
brain is removed ; but its movements are useless, and those of 
the feet in contrary directions, so that, if it takes one step for- 
ward, the next is perhaps made backward. He i imagines that 
the spinal marrow is acted upon by the brain, in the same man- 
ner as the muscles are acted upon by the spinal marrow. 
' The results of M. Le Gallois’ physiological labours were sub- 
mitted, by the National Institute, to Messrs. Humboldt, Hallé, 
and Percy, by whom a particular examination of the filets was 
made. The Doctor repeated all the experiments in their pre- 
sence with complete success; and their report is highly credita- 
ble to the talents of the ingenious ‘author. The subject is one 
of great interest: and we should be glad to see’it investigated 
on this side of the Channel. 
ABSENCE OF MAGNESIA IN HUMAN BONES. 
_ According to the latest experiments made on human bones, 
by Hildebrandt, the analysis of Fourcroy and Vauquelin is con- 
firmed, that they do not contain any oxyphosphate of magnesia, | 
as maintained by Berzelius in his Animal Chemistry. 
A nervous fever prevails at Basle, in Switzerland, which at- 
tacks young persons, and has assumed a character of malignity. 
‘In four or five days the patient expires, and the disease has hi- 
therto proved fatal in every instance. 
In May last the plague raged violently at Smyrna, Odessa, 
and in several islands of the Archipelago. It had also made its 
appearance at Constantinople, but not to such an extent. 
‘. The university of Wilna, in the Russian empire, has resumed 
its former rank among the learned institutions in Europe, and a 
veterinary school has been added to its other lectureships. The 
number of students is from 6 to 700 annually. 
The universities of Halle and Berlin. have been restored to 
their former rank under the auspices of the King of Prussia.- 
The Saxon students have preferred visiting the latter school, 
where 49 professors are to give sia in the course of the 
summer. ate 
The celebrated Dr. Sparzheim, the colleague of Dr. Gall, 
being now in London, purposes to give a Course of Lectures on 
the Physiology of the Brain, at his Rooms, No. 11, Rathbone- 
place, where further particulars may be learnt of him. The 
Lectures are to begin on the 11th of July. 
Geg2 Meteoro- 
