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SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



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Tl-dlic LiBRAniEs.— Munich has seventeen public libraries, into 

 every one of which .strangers unquestioned may enter, peruse, and de- 

 part in peace. Oftliese institutions the most celebrated are lending 

 libraries, Statistics preacli wliere sermon docs not lift its voice. Here 

 arc its word.s. In Loudon, there are, in round luimbcr.s, 500,000 vo- 

 lumes accessible to the public, or about an average of 22 volumes to 



every 100 inhabitants. DubUn -n-ith all its deficiencies, has 59. In 

 rari.s, the propoi-tioii is IGO volumes to every 100 inhabitants; in Ber- 

 lin, 182; in Florence, 317; in Copenhagen, 4G7; in Dresdreu, 490; iu 

 Munich 780. So tliat Paris is six times better provided than London; 

 Berlin, 7 times; Florence, 13 times; Copeuhagen, 19 times ; Dresden, 

 20 times; imd Jlunich, 32 times.— Co;-TO;)o?KfeHil o/ Iho BuUdcr. 



