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4, Geneva. Museum.—The donations. have been nei- 
ther less rich t nor less abundant, than in the preceding year. 
They are not only the product of the generosity of our fel- 
low-citizens, but many strangers of distinction have been 
deport to give to this establishment proof of the interest 
they take in it. The apartments of mineralogy and orni- 
thology, have been particularly enriched by these new gifts. 
The museum has acquired a new kind of importance and 
usefulness ; its halls, laboratories, and instruments, were used 
during the ‘last two winters, for gratuitous courses of chem- 
istry and philosophy, applied to the arts, and of elementary 
mete mates which the committee of industry has opened to 
sts. These courses given by able professors, have been 
cagbely: attended. The municipal council of Geneva ee 
given anew proof of its desire to encourage and favour 
culture of the sciences, in granting the sum of 40,000 Martie: 
(about $3700,) for the purchase of the collection of appara 
tus of Professor Pictet,. ancient PRC NEE STN of public 
Instruction.— Rev. Encye. Nov, 1824. 
rpeavx Linnean Society.-This learned society. 
seiatientan for the seventh time, the féte of Charles Linnée, 
its illustrious patron. In. the hall of the’ conservatory o 
arts, elegantly decorated, and ornamented with the bust of 
H. M. Charles X. a numerous and select company collected 
at an early hour. . Dancenas, the president, opene 
the session by an interesting discourse, on the preseies and 
utility of the natural anes: and particularly of botany. 
The lectures then commenced in the following order: A 
report upon the biben urs ae the ews from November 
1823, to the present time, by M. Cuave, secretary. The 
history of the coffee tree, by M. Venot, M. D. Notice of 
the French colonies of Senegal, by M. Teuterr, M. D. 
This notice informed the meeting that the Linnzan Society 
of Senegalgcherished the hope of naturalizing the coffee 
plant in that colony, the first stalk which had been produced 
having ornamented the room at the time of their celebration 
in July. Reflections upon the sensibility of vegetables by 
M. Cuansaner, M. D. Notice of the vine and its pro- 
ducts, by M. Parton, M. D. A poem, entitled Rural = 
lustons, in which was ‘exhibited the portrait of an old m 
who wished, before he expired, to enjoy for the last ine, 
the spectacle of nature, produced in the meeting, feelings at 
