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has been finished and furnished with instruments,.so that this: Acad- 
emy possesses the only establishment of this kind, complete and per- 
fect, and the public may soon be in possession of the results of the 
labors of M. Kuprer, who is devoted to this branch. Eight similar 
observatories are to be constructed in different parts of Russia. 
The zoological museum has been enriched by Lanesporr, Mer- 
TENS, and especially by Krrriirz. It contains seven hundred and 
fifty four specimens of three hundred and fourteen species of birds, 
mostly new, and a rich collection of shells sent by Eacmr from Port 
au Prince. The herbarium has received an important increase by 
the collection of plants from India from Dr. Watxicn, director of 
the garden at Calcutta; by that of Freiscuer, at Esslingen, and by 
the remittances of Tourrcuaninor, from Irkutzk, of Haver, from 
Ecatheriaoslaf, and of Karausxy, Kirriirz and Eacer. The 
mineralogical cabinet is enriched by the rare collection of M. 
Srruvs, resident Russian minister at the Hanseatic towns, purchased 
for 50,000 rubles. ‘The Asiatic museum is indebted to M. Can- 
‘a great number of curious medals of 
“a complete collection of Russian 
museum has also received the collection of counterfeit silver medals 
of M. Becker, of Offenbach, to the number of two. hundred and 
ninety six, imitating with great fidelity and admirable skill, the 
antique medals of Greece and Rome. 'The Egyptian museum has 
~ feceived from Admiral Count Hevpen, two stones, one of which is 
sepulchral with hieroglyphic inscriptions, brought from, Greece: 
Agreeably to the proposition of the late M. Mertens, an ethnographic 
museum has. been founded, and has received the objects collecte 
by M. Mertens during his voyage round the world. Among the 
number of important acquisitions must be mentioned the port-folio 
of drawings brought by the expedition of the ships Moller and Sén- 
favine, and presented to the Academy by the savans and artists who 
accompanied it. This rich and precious collection is composed of 
one thousand and twenty eight sheets, the greater portion of which 
will enrich the account of this voyage which the Academy intends 
speedily to publish. M. Lenz has presented to the Academy the 
journal of his travels to Nikolaief and Bakons.. The archeographic 
labors have been continued under M. Srroier, who, arrested, in his 
excursions by cholera morbus, was enabled by this delay to prepare 
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