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The number of pupils of the University of Moscow, which in Janu- 
ary, 1880, celebrated the 75th anniversary of its foundation, had, dur- 
ing the scholastic year of 1829, 660 exclusive of 18 candidates and 
38 surgeons who continued their studies in it. The total number of 
students in the 296 institutions of public instruction of the eleven goy- 
ernments of the University circuit, was 15,601. These students were 
divided as follows. 
Number and kind of establishments. Number of pupils. 
Gymnasia, - - - - - - ll 1,089 
District schools, 2 - ‘ - - 94 7,506 
Parish and primary schools, - -. - 134 4,945 
Boarding and private schools, - = 64 994* 
Watvetity of Moscow, - 6. sl So-) eee wale WS 
Boarding school for the nobility at Moscow, : =i STR 
High school of Demidoff, - - - - iy Tee oe 
Total number of establishments, - —- 296 15,602 
The number of pupils in 1829 was 1,300 more than in 1828; and 
that of professors and masters 827, which makes about 18 pupils to 
one master.— Rev. Encyc. Sept. 1830. 
10. Destruction of Live Stock by Wolves in Russia.—In the gov- — 
ernment of Livonia alone, the following animals were destroyed by 
Wolves in 1823. The account is an official one. 
Horses, - - ee © Goats, - - - 2 
Fowls, ef 3 ee ee 183 
Horned cattle, - - 1,807 Swine, - - - 4,190 
ves, - - - 733 Sucking pigs, - - 312 
Mean a LAOS Doge, Se eae 
Lambs, - - 726 Geese, - . - 673 
Idem. 
MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY. 
1. Voltaic electricity.—Professor Saverio Barlocci, of Rome, in a 
Memoir on the influence of solar light in the production of electrical 
Phenomena, relates the following experiments :—Having decomposed 
* beam of light, by the solar prism, he caused the red ray, and the 
Violet ray to fall on two disks of copper, painted black, and to each 
sk was adapted a copper wire. ‘T'wo rings of copper sliding on two 
Vertical rods of glass, were attached each to one of the wires, so as 
* Of whom 362 are boys, and 632 girls. 
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