172 Miscellames. 
(The following articles were extracted by Prof. J. Garscom.y 
STATISTICS. 
1. National Encouragement of Science-—The following circum- 
stances are stated by Charles Babbage, M. A. F. R.S. L. and E, » 
Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge, in his work “ on the decline of 
cience.” 
Examples of a few of those men of science, who have formerly 
freld, or who now hold, high official stations in the governments of 
their respective countries. j 
Department of 
Country. Name. Science. 
Publie Office. 
President of the Con- 
servative Senate. 
France (|M. Carnot _ |Mathematics [Minister of War. 
France {Marquis Laplace* |Mathematics > 
: Minister of Public In- 
France {Baron Cuvier} Natural His- struction. 
tory 
Prussia (Baron Humboldt aoe Lan- ethos to Eng- 
. 5 a ; 
Sassi Pe ainegg Pom: Chemistry Minister of the Interior 
Prnssia | ( Baron Alexander/The celebrated|Chamberlain to the King 
Humboldt raveller : 
of Public Fnstruction, 
President of the Italian 
j Academy of Forty: 
Modena |Marquis Rangonil| |Mathematics 
; : : 3 ee f the 
Tuseany |CountFossombroni{|/Mathematics } has duke of Peseby: 
M. Lindenau4 Astronomy (Ambassador. 
Saxony 
celebrated work into our language, has just arrived in England from —— A 
f Author of Lerons @ Anatomie Comparé—Récherches sur les Ossemens' fo? 
siles, &c. &c. 
$ Author of Traité de Chimie Applique aux Arts. : 
| Author of Memoria sulle Funzioni Generatrica, Modena, 1824, and of various 
other memoirs on Mathematical subjects. 
§. Author of several memoirs on mechanics and hydraulics, in the Transactions of 
the Academy of Forty. 
1 Author of Tables Barometriques, Gotha, 1809—Tabule Veneris nove et fee: 
rect, Gothz, 1810—Investigatio Wovn Orbite a Mercurio circa Sotem descrip'® 
Goth», 1813, and of other works. 
* Author of the Mecanique Celeste. The first Vol. of the first translation of 6 
merica- 
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