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Miscellanies. 



(Tiw; following articles were extracted by Prof. J. Griscom.) 



STATISTICS. 



1. National Encouragement of Science. — The following eircum- 

 stances are stated by Charles Babbage, M. A. F. R. S. L. and E., 

 Professor of Mathenjatics, Cambridge, in his work " on the decline of 

 Science." 



Examples of a few of those men of science, who have formerly 

 lield, or who now hold, high official stations in the governments of 

 their I'espective countries. 



Country. 



France 

 France 



France 



Prussia 

 France 

 Prussia 



Modena 



Tuscany 

 Saxony 



JVamr. 



Marquis Laplace* 

 M. Carnot 



Baron Cuvierf 



Baron Humboldt < 



Count Chaptal| 

 ) Baron Alexander 

 \ Humboldt 



Marquis Rangoni|| 



CountFossombroni'^ 

 M. Lindenau^ 



Department of 

 Science. 



Mathematics < 



Mathematics 

 C Comparative 

 7 anatomy, 

 \ Natural His- 

 (tory 



Oriental Lan- 

 guages 



Chemistry 



The celebrated 

 traveller 



Mathematics 



Mathematics 



Astronomy 



Public Office. 



President of the Con- 

 servative Senate. 

 Minister of War. 



Minister of Public In- 

 struction. 



Ambassador to Eng- 

 land. 



Minister of the Interior. 



Chamberlain to the King 

 of Prussia. 



Minister of Finance and 

 of Public Instruction, 

 President of the Italian 



•Academy of Forty. 



Prime Minister of the 



Grand duke of Tuscany. 



Ambassador. 



* Author of the Mecanique Celeste. The first Vol. of the first translation of this 

 celebrated work into our language, has just arrived in England from America ! 



t Author of Leqons d' Anatomic Ccmpar6 — Recherches sur les Ossemens fos-' 

 siles, Sfc. Sfc. 



\ Author of Traite de Chimie Applique aux Arts. 



II Author of Memoria sulle Funzioni Generatrica, Modena, 1824, and of various 

 other memoirs on Ivlathe'matical subjects. 



§ Author of several memoirs on mechanics and hydraulics, in the Transactions of 

 the Academy of Forty. 



^ Author of Tables Barometriques, Gotha, 1809 — TabulcB Veneris nova et cor- 

 recteB, Gothae, 1810 — Investigatio JYova Orbitce a Mercurio circa Soletn descriptcei, 

 Solhre, 1S13, and of other works.- 



