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try and commerce seem to have taken a fresh start, but the movement 

 is very much confined to Austria. — Rev. Encyc. Sept. 1830. 



5. The last annual meeting of the Naturalists and physicians of Ger- 

 many, was held at Hamburg, in September last. This scientific re- 

 union was founded in 1822, for the purpose of rendering the scientific 

 men of Germany, acquainted with each other, and of facilitating an 

 exchange of ideas and discoveries, and producing a union of efforts in 

 favor of the progress of science. After having held their meetings 

 successively at Dresden, Berlin, Frankfort, and Heidleberg. They 

 decided on meeting at Hamburg, and the Senate of that city were the 

 more gratified in receiving them as their Burgomaster, Bartels, one of 

 the most learned and influential citizens, had been chosen President 

 of the assembly. Every thing was done to give them an agreeable 

 reception ; the chamber of finance placed at the disposal of the Pres- 

 ident, funds sufficient to treat them in a style worthy of the occasion. 

 M. De Struve the Russian Minister, a distinguished mineralogist, was 

 invited to attend the meetings, and was placed at the head of the sec- 

 tion of mineralogy. 



The assembly consisted of upwards of 400 persons, among whom 

 were Prof. Berzelius of Stockholm, Agardh, of Lund, Count Stern- 

 berg, of Prague, and others from Edinburgh, London, Copenhagen, 

 Vienna, and even from Baltimore. 



Prof. Struve pronounced a discourse, as interesting as instructive, 

 on the merits of the Germans in Astronomy; and' the director of the 

 imperial garden at St. Petersburg, M. Fischer read a memoir concern- 

 ing the foundation and actual condition of this garden so magnificent- 

 ly endowed by the emperor. At the last session held on the 26th 

 September, they decided on motion of Count Sternberg to meet the 

 next year at Vienna, it being understood that it was the Emperor's 

 wish that his learned Society should meet in his capital. The ses- 

 sions were conducted with great harmony, and the provision that had 

 been made for dining parties and soirees, greatly contributed to the 

 general satisfaction. — Rev. Encyc. Oct. 1830. 



6. Petersburg Botanic Garden. — Loriis Riedel who has been con- 

 nected as botanist to the scientific expedition of M. Langsdorf at 

 Brazil, has brought from Rio-Janeiro, for the botanic garden a collec- 

 tion of more than a thousand living Brazihan plants, beautiful and 

 rare, among which are many that have not before been found in any 

 Botanic Garden in Europe. This rich acquisition, joined to the young 

 plants which the garden of Petersburg had before obtained from seeds 

 sent from Brazil, will be sufficient to fill a large Green-house in 



