314 New Berlin University. 
communications from Dr. Thomas Thomson, containing 
an analysis of iron-ore from Greenland,—from Dry Ed- 
monston, Shetland, on the larus elaucus,—and from Dr. 
Barclay om the structure of the cells of hees and wasps. 
At the meeting of the Society on the 6th of April, Mr. 
William Elford Leech read an account of the natural tribe 
of diptera, the eproboscidea of Latreille, with descriptions 
of the species, which he illustrated by drawings and spe- 
cimens. -—— At the same meeting, Professor Jameson 
gave an account of the occurrence of coal in the first sand- 
stone formation in Thuringia and other countries on the 
continent ; from whence he inferred the probability of that 
valuabie mineral existing in the @xtensive red-sandstone 
districts of Scotland. 
Since our last, the first volume of the Memoirs of the 
Wernerian Natural History Society has been published. 
NEW BERLIN UNIVERSITY. 
The new Berlin university was opened for the first time 
on the ist of November 1810. It is divided into four fa- 
culties, as is the case with most of the German universities. 
The palace of Prince Henry of Prussia, which was given ‘by 
the king for the use of the university, has been fitted up in 
a eommodious manner, and divided into ten large lecture- 
rooms, with a hall for the profesors to assemble in. The 
rest of,the palace has been converted into galleries and mu- 
seums. M. Rudolphe has been appointed to the superin- 
‘tendance of the cabinet of comparative anatomy and zoo- 
logy. The superb mineralogical cabinet of the late M. 
Karsten forms one of the most valuable acquisitions to the 
institution ; and has been put under the care of Professor 
Weiss, late of Leipsic, who is also lecturer on mineralogy, 
Count Loflmanseg, author of the superb work entitled 
Flora Lusitanica, has presented to the institution some very 
fine subjects .in natural, history, particularly some rare ar- 
ticles from the Brazils, Anerica, and the South Seas, 
Dr. Gerresheim of Dresden has given a very fine cabinet of 
zoophytes, which has been conymusied to the charge of M, 
Iger of Brunswick. The. king of Prussia has purchased 
M. Herbst’s collection, and. intends . to purchase several 
others. M. Willdeno& has reorganized the garden of plants 
at Berlin, -and after visiting Paris for the purpose of adding 
to bis botanical collection, will resume the chair at Berlin 
as lécturer on that science. 
Hermstadt lectures on chemistry, Tralles and fahbe Olt. 
mans on mathematics and astronomy, ‘The observatory of 
thee 
