192 Foreign Literature and Science. 
mutually acquired in the practice of the honourable functions 
of instruction 
and an annual assessment, every teacher may insure to his 
wife assistance after his death, and to his children a suitable 
e ducation.— Rev. Ency. Mars, 1826. 
11. Necrology.—tItaly has sustained a heavy loss in the 
person of Sctpro BRErsLAK, who died on the 15th of Feb- 
ruary, 1826, at the age of 78. Born at Rome, of a father 
originally from Swabia, he devoted himself, at au early age, 
to the study of the exact and natural sciences. While still 
young, he was appointed, at the request of the celebrated 
Stay, professor of physics and mathematics at Ragusa, a city 
remarkable for the number of its literary men. He there be- 
came acquainted with the learned family of Count de Sorgo, 
and particularly the Abbe Fortis, who inspired him with the 
love of natural history. On his return to Rome, he taught 
in the College Nazareno, the physical and mathematical sei- 
ences, and contributed to the improvement of the mineralo- 
gical cabinet of that college. He had always felt the neces- 
sity of studying nature in nature herself ; he made many 
more conspicuously reveals her mysteries, and he was thus 
led to undertake those geological researches which engaged 
his attention during his life. 
From Rome he repaired to Naples, to examine the prinei- 
pal phenomena which that country presents to the curiosity 
of observers. There he met a second time the Abbe Fortis, 
and also the celebrated Delfico, and other learned men, who 
encouraged him by their example to devote himself to the 
study of natural history. He made the most dangerous ex-. 
iments in the Solfatara of Puzzola, where he erected a 
2 ical apparatus for deriving the greatest possible 
advantage from its mineral ingredients. Obliged, from con- 
siderations of health, to abandon this e rise, he devot 
his attention to the instruction of the pupils of the Royal Ar- 
tillery of Naples, and published, besides various other works, 
his “ Travels in Campania,” of which a French translation 
has been printed at Paris. 
uitical vicissit took him to Rome, and from thence 
to the capital of France, where he associated with the most 
