310 Nations lately become Literary. . 



natives and foreigners. Among the former, Lepe* 



CHIN, GULDENSTJEDT, OzERETZKOFSKY, SoLOKOF, 



Scjyef, Rumofsky, and Florinsky, deserve to 

 be mentioned with particular respect. Among the 

 latter, Pallas/ Gmelin, Falk, ^Epinus, Georgi, 

 Renovantz, and several others, hold an honour- 

 able rank. By the labours and writings of these 

 philosophers, a considerable taste has been excited 

 in Russia, for the inquiries to which they directed 

 their attention. 



In Mathematical Science, Kotelntkof, Rumof- 

 sky, and Inokhodzof, have shown themselves ac- 

 complished in a very respectable degree, by their 

 memoirs in the transactions of the Academy. Be- 

 sides these, Koselsky, Anitschkof, Golovin, 

 and Siretuschkin, have made distinct publications 

 on various branches of the Mathematics, which, 

 besides doing honour to their authors, have con- 

 tributed to extend the knowledge of this science 

 among their countrymen. For contributions to 

 the science of Geography, Russia is still more dis- 

 tinguished. The Statistical Survey of the Russian 

 Empire, by Pleschtscheyef, is a most instructive 

 and valuable work. In addition to this, the vari- 



r Peter Simon Pallas was born at Berlin, in the year 1741, and 

 is the son of a distinguished surgeon of that city. After enjoying every ad- 

 vantage to be derived from the Universities of Halle and Gottingen, he 

 travelled into other parts of Germany, spent some time in Holland and in 

 England, and every where directed particular attention to Natural History, 

 besides improving himself in other branches of knowledge. He was, 

 early in life, invited by Catharine II. to Petersburgh, where he was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Natural History in the Imperial Academy of Scien- 

 ces, and where he has ever since maintained a growing reputation for ta- 

 lents and learning. Professor Pallas is probably the most accomplished 

 Naturalist now living. His Elenchus Zoophytorum ; his Miscellanea Zoolo- 

 gica ; his Nova Species Quadrupedum e Glirium ordine ; his Enutneratio Plan- 

 tarum qua in Horto Procopii, a Demidof Moscua <vi<uent ; his Neue Nordischg 

 Beytrage; his Icones Insectarum, &c. and his Flora Pussica, are too well known 

 and too highly esteemed among natural historians, to render an account of 

 their respective merits necessary. This great man now resides in Crim 

 Tartary, on an estate granted him by the Empress, where, in the enjoy- 

 ment of dignified leisure, he devotes himself to his favowite pursuits. 



