162 Nations lately become Literary. [Ch. XXVI, 



In Mathematical Science y Kotelnikof, Rumof- 

 sky, and Inokhodzof, have shown themselves ac- 

 complished in a very respectable degree, by their 

 memoirs in the transactions of the academy. Be- 

 side these, Koselsky, Anit^chkof, Golovin, and 

 Siretuschkin, have published distinct works on 

 various branches of the Mathematics, which, be- 

 side doing honour to their authors, have contri- 

 buted to extend the knowledge of this science 

 among their countrymen. 



For contributions to the science of Geography^ 

 Russia is still more distinguished. The Statistical 

 S^irvey of the Russian Empire, by Pleschtscheyef, 

 is a very instructive and valuable work. In ad- 

 dition to this, the various publications of Suyef, 

 Irodionof, Kotoftzof, and Hackman, are all con- 

 spicuous and useful. 



A little more than thii'ty years ago, the science 

 of Medicine was wholly uncultivated in Russia. 

 It is said, that scarcely three books had been pub- 

 lished on this subject in the whole empire, antece- 

 dently to the year 1770. Since that period, the 

 progress of medical knowledge has been astonish- 

 ingly great, and the number of medical publica- 

 tions remarkably increased. To professor Ambo- 

 dick, his countrymen are indebted for valuable 

 publications on anatomy, physiology, materia me- 

 dica, and obstetrics, beside translations of some 

 important works on different branches of the heal- 

 ing art. The medical works of Schumliansky, 

 Tichorsky, Samoilovitch, and Terekhofsky, both 

 original compositions and translations, are also 

 mentioned with applause by the literary histo- 

 rian- of that country. It is, moreover, proper to 



