PART III. 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
Art. I. Natural History in Foreign Countries. 
GERMANY. 
Tue German Naturalists and Physicians held their eighth Annual Meeting 
at Heidelberg on the 18th of September. Professor Tiedmann was chosen 
first manager, and opened the assembly with a discourse on the progress 
of the natural sciences, their present state, and their influence on civil 
society. Among these influences some of the most important were, a taste 
for facts instead of hypothetical reasoning; a love of truth, from observ- 
ing the fitness of means to ends in natural objects; and universal charity, 
from observing the care bestowed by the Author of nature on all his works. 
Mr. Brown of London and Professor Whewell of Cambridge were present. 
Professor Lichtenstein delivered the accustomed valedictory oration, con- 
cluding with the following words :—‘“ We now take leave of you, and of 
this friendly abode of science, with feelings of the most grateful recollection 
of the abundant and various information and enjoyment which our meeting 
has again afforded us on this occasion. Neither the banks of the Elbe, nor 
those of any greater or smaller stream that we may visit in the sequel, will 
ever be able to efface or to obscure the lively image which we now carry 
away with us from the wood and vine-covered hills of the Neckar.” (J’0- 
reign Quarterly Review, p. 352.) 
Hamburgh was appointed the place of meeting for the year 1830. 
George Dahl, the noted insect dealer of Vienna, whom we were disap- 
pointed in not seeing, when we spent a fortnight in that city last Septem- 
ber, lately returned through Florence from an eighteen months’ tour in 
Calabria, Sicily, &c., with a rich harvest of insects which he has collected 
for sale, to add to his former stores enumerated in his Coleoptera and Lepi- 
doptera ( Vienna, 1823, 8vo), a catalogue of 104pages, specifying about 6000 
species, at prices generally very moderate: 4 to 12 kreutzers (1d. to 3d.), 
for common species, and 15 to 30 for the rarer only. Very few exceed a 
florin (2s.).— W,S. Florence, April 2, 1830, 
SWITZERLAND. 
The Swiss Naturalists held their last Meeting in July at the Monastery of 
the Great St. Bernard. More than eighty naturalists attended from the 
different towns and cities of Switzerland; a great number of strangers were 
also present. Three meetings were held; various excursions made in the 
neighbourhood, and two entomologists from Lausanne collected more than 
2000 species of insects. “ A letter from one of the German naturalists 
present has been published in the MZorgendlatt, in which it gave us pain to 
observe the following remark on our countrymen:— On the first evening 
after their arrival at the Monastery, the strangers, and particularly the Ger- 
mans, very soon became acquainted with each other. New groups were 
formed every instant, A frank and cordial gaiety, the result of mutual 
kindness, soon prevailed among us. The English alone remained strangers 
