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eluded ill the class of revisionaries, but very inaccurate as far as 

 respects the other classes, and consequently upon the whole always 

 below the truth. We may therefore reckon in the empire ten mil- 

 lions and a half of subjects who are not Russians. 



The number of Inhabitants at present in Russia is 41,253,483, 

 and this number is certainly a minimum. 



According to these data the number of Russian inhabitants 

 amounts to 31,043, 183, and the foreigners subject to the empire do 

 not exceed one qu.irter of the whole people. This is a proportion 

 very advantageous for the ruling nation. The variations in the total 

 amount will not alter this proportion. 



And these 31 millions oi Russians have tlie inestimable advantage 

 of a concentrated population, while the other nations are spread 

 over a prodigious extent of country. The Russian nation forms the 

 centre of this immense empire, it inhabits the best cultivated pro- 

 vinces, and is the best situated for communicating both by land and 

 water. The south of Russia begins to be peopled by the surplus of 

 the Russian population. All these advantages double the force of 

 the Russian nation, and ensure it the most decided preponderance. 



Article VIII. 



Outline of .Dr. Berzeliuss Chemical Nomenclature, 

 By the Editor. 



I TROMisED, in a preceding number of the Annals of Philo- 

 sophy, to present my readers with a sketch of the chemical nomen- 

 clature of Berzelius ; because some knowledge of it seems to me 

 requisite for understanding the important papers with which this 

 excellent and indefatigable chemist has already enriched this 

 Journal. It was contrived by the author in consequence of a new 

 edition of tlic Swedisli JMiarmacopoeia, and has been adopted in that 

 work. An account of it was published by the author in the Journal 

 de Physique for 1811, vol. kxiii. p. 263 : and in Gilbert's Annalen 

 der Physik for 1812, vol. xlii. p. 37. From these two works I 

 derived my knowledge of it. 



The nomenclature is in Latin, It will be necessary merely to 

 exhibit a list of the terms, with an English translation of each, and 

 an explanation where it seems necessary. 



I. IMPONDERABiLIA. LMPONDERABLE BODIES. 



Electricitas positiva Positive electricity. 



negativa Negative electricity. 



Lux Light. 



Caloricum Caloric, or heat. 



MagiictLimus Magnelism. 



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