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some even with little novels) are of historical and geo- 

 graphical argument. 



" The more serious sciences increase daily. The 

 Universities of Germany are in great agitation. Pro- 

 fessors are sought for, and emigrate everywhere. The 

 newly-modelled Universities in Bavaria, viz. Ingolstadt 

 and Wiirsburg, where even protestant Theology is pro- 

 tected, and new professorships thereof established ; the 

 many new universities in Russia, which take almost all 

 their professors from Germany, and whither more than 

 thirty were called, and liberally paid (some 4 to 6000 

 rubles, or dollars, per annum^ besides a dowery for their 

 wives, in case of death, &:c.), has occasioned this emi- 

 gration. This even increases the number of authors ; 

 for many wish to recommend themselves for promotion. 



" The Medical Annals of Hufeland go on (the 19th 

 volume has appeared), as well as his Reviews of physi- 

 cal books. Voight's Collection for Natural Philosophy 

 is continued : Beckmann's Oeconomical and Physical 

 (that is, in the German sense, natural philosophical) 

 Library also. It contains only Reviews. Scherer's 

 Chemical Journal is continued by him, and many 

 others. Several new Medical Magazines and Reviews 

 have commenced, as two for the Medicina Forensis ; 

 and a Journal of new and real inventions. 



" Richter's excellent Chirurgical Library is publish- 

 ed rather slowly. Several of the practice of physic, as 

 well by Brunonians (at the head of whom is the 

 warlike professor Roschlaub, now at Landshut) as by 



