448 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
of Italy. The modern coins are of gold, silver, and bronze or brass, 
and some of them scarce and valuable. Among the gold coins of 
England there are —_ fine guinea pieces, of Charles II, Queen Anne 
and Geor ite Likewise : 
A soflectlon of European and American autographs in forty quarto 
cases bound as books. They have been chiefly collected by purchase 
at considerable cost. The American includes a complete collection of 
the signers of the Declaration of Independance. 
_ It is unecessary to go.into further details.—Those desirous of avail- 
ing themselves of so good an opportunity of purchasing, either for pri- 
vate use or for endowing public institutions, will probably desire to ex- 
amine for uitindehiaed when the fullest information will be a 
OBITUARY. 
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1b. Berzelius, padaoanes Aug. 26, 1848.)—On the 7th m4 
, died the eminent Swedish chemisty Berzelius. In ace 
s of any other class of men of science, Berzelius stood out as a 
marvor the first magnitude. ‘To him more than to’ any others an, be- 
longs the. honor of applying the great principles which had been estab- 
lished by Dalton, Davy, Wollaston, Gay-Lussac, and himself, in inor- 
ganic chemistry, to unfolding the on which regulate the combinations 
forming the structures of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. 
Berzelius was born in’ the village of Vafvérsunda, it 
ialiggnith 3 in Ostgothland, on the*29th of August, 1779,—not at Lin- 
kagring on the 20th of August, as is often erroneously stated in the 
many notices of him. His father kept the parish school in the village 
medica ‘ shoenio on. 
olenesen 1798, ‘Berzelius passed his philosophical examination as 
rat final'one for M.D. At this time he left the. Univer- 
in conjunction wilh ‘Eke eber: pat linera 
1 nt the examination for a license to 
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his voyages round the world, and age 
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and chemical pharmacy. Spaurnau died in 1806,—and Ber 
ius by his inaugural dissertation on galvanism, and other papers, 
Sipotity obtained for himself a sufficient degree of confidence to be ap- 
pointed his successor. Although this chair embraced a very wide ta 
c ects, os was “are the case with Swedish chairs at that time, 
hee: Sem 
