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iry and commerce seem to have taken a fresh start, but the movement 
is very much confined to Austria.—Rev. Encyc. Sept. 1830. 
5. The last annual meeting of the Naturalists and physicians of Ger- 
many, was held at Hamburg, in September last. This scientific re- 
union was founded in 1822, for the purpose of rendering the scientific 
men of Germany, acquainted with each other, and of facilitating an 
exchange of ideas and discoveries, and producing a union of efforts in 
favor of the progress of science. After having held their meetings 
successively at Dresden, Berlin, Frankfort, and Heidleberg. They 
decided on meeting at Hamburg, and the Senate of that city were the 
more gratified in receiving them as their Burgomaster, Bartels, one of 
the most learned and influential citizens, had been chosen President 
of the assembly. Every thing was done to give them an agreeable 
reception ; the chamber of finance placed at the disposal of the Pres- 
ident, funds sufficient to treat them in a style worthy of the occasion, 
M. De Struve the Russian Minister, a distinguished mineralogist, was 
invited to attend the meetings, and was placed at the head of the sec- 
tion of mineralogy. 
4he assembly consisted of upwards of 400 persons, among whom 
were Prof. Berzelius of Stockholm, Agardh, of Lund, Count Stern- 
berg, of Prague, and others from Edinburgh, London, Copenhagen, 
tenna, and even from Baltimore. 
Prof. Struve pronounced a discourse, as interesting as instructive, 
= the merits of the Germans in Astronomy; and the director of the 
imperial garden at St. Petersburg, M. Pischer read a memoir concern- 
ing the foundation and actual condition of this garden so magnificent- 
ly endowed by the emperor. At the last session held on the 26th 
September, they decided on motion of Count Sternberg to meet the 
pein year at Vienna, it being understood that it was the Emperor’s 
Wish that his learned Society should meet in his capital. The ses- 
S10ns were conducted with great harmony, and the provision that had 
been made for dining parties and soirees, greatly contributed to the 
seneral satisfaction. Rev. Encyc. Oct. 1830. 
6. Petersburg Botanic Garden.—Louis Riedel who bas been con- 
Hected as botanist to the scientific expedition of M. Langsdorf at 
*razil, has brought from Rio-Janeiro, for the botanic garden a collec- 
"on of more than a thousand living Brazilian. plants, beautiful and 
“are; among which are many that have not before been found in any 
Botanic Garden in Europe. This rich acquisition, joined to the young 
Plants which the garden of Petersburg had before obtained from seeds 
from Brazil, will be sufficient to fill a large Green-house in 
