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and who notwithstanding the successive losses of his remit- 
tances, in natural history and antiquity, collected in India, 
has not failed to enrich his country with many very curious 
things, took possession of his chair as professor of Physics 
and natural history at Leyden on the 3d of May last, by a 
discourse; De augmentis, que historie naturali ex India in- 
vestigatione accesserunt. He fills the place vacated by the 
eath of the celebrated professor Brugmans. Professor 
Siegenbeck has celebrated this academical solemnity by a 
piece of latin verse in which the success of an ‘illustrious 
and more fortunate traveller is finely distinguished. 
ic, meliore usus fortuna, Humboldius, ille 
Inclyta Germani gloria lausque soli, 
Ventorum sprevit rabiem, et graviora pericla, 
ries inum que subiunda dabat, 
Et, nubes superans nunc, mox in Viscera terre 
Descendens, late qua patet orbis, opes, 
Quas habet immensas rerum natura, stupenti 
Intulit Europe, nomen ad astra ferens. 
20. Public Instruction.—Method of J. J. Ordinaire.—T he 
unequivocal success which has attended the method of 
teaching latin, invented by Ordinaire, Rector of the Acade- 
my of ancon, authorizes us to remind our readers, 
that since the publication of this method in January 1821 
we have directed their attention to the importance and the 
happy results.of the applications which it has successively 
received. 3 
The theoretic principles upon which it is founded, had 
obtained the unanimous approbation of the members of a 
special commission, to whose ju nt the work had been 
submitted by the royal council. This commission composed 
of inspectors-general, and professors of great learning and 
experience, terminated its report by proposing that a large 
school should be established in Paris for the purpose of ap- 
plying the system under the direction of the inventor him- 
self. Various circumstances have delayed the execution 
of this project. M. Ordinaire deeply convinced of the rec- 
titude of his principles, and entertaining no doubt of the 
success of their application, of which he had made such 
rigorous trials, commenced on the first of June 1821, the 
application of his method at Paris in the fine establishment 
of M. Morin in Rue Louis le Grand. The superiority of 
