192 Miscellatieous Facts and Observations, 



D:ni. Equ. ab Acrel, administratio hujus externa 

 cauta, saepe auxilium prgestitit." 



47. Our University (Kiel) has considerably increased 

 the number of its institutions for the improvement of 

 Medicine and Natural Histor}-. We have now got a 

 Botanical Garden, which begins to flourish. We have 

 lately opened an Academical Hospital, and a house for 

 Lying-in Women. The young Weber and Mr. Mohr 

 (the last an excellent botanist) now publish a Botanical 

 Magazine, which contains many good treatises. 



Entomolog)' finds many friends in Germany. A 

 Dr. Klug has published a volume, in quarto, with fine 

 engravings, on the genus Sirex. It is a work of great 

 merit, and written in the true Linnaean spirit of natural 

 history. He proposes to publish, in the same mamier, 

 the other genera of this class. 



A Mr. Meigon, at Aix la Chapellc, has published a 

 system of the Diptera of Linne, in two volumes, and a 

 tliird is prepaiing. This work contains only German 

 Insects, but the author takes the characters of his genera 

 from all the parts of the bodies of the insects, and thus 

 establishes a great number of genera. 



I take the liberty of sending to you my Systema 



