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The number of pupils of the University of Moscow, which in Janu- 

 ary, 1830, celebrated the 75th anniversary of its foundation, had, dur- 

 ing the scholastic year of 1829, 660 exclusive of 18 candidates and 

 38 surgeons who continued their studies in it. The total number of 

 students in the 296 institutions of public instruction of the eleven gov- 

 ernments of the University circuit, was 15,601. These students were 

 divided as follows. 



Number and kind of establishments- Number of pupils. 



Gymnasia, 11 1,089 



District schools, 94 7,506 



Parish and primary schools, - - - 134 4,945 



Boarding and private schools, - - - 54 994* 



University of Moscow, - 716 



Boarding school for the nobility at Moscow, - - 272 

 High school of DemidofF, 79 



Total number of establishments, - - 296 15,602 



The number of pupils in 1829 was 1,300 more than in 1828; and 

 that of professors and masters 827, which makes about IS pupils to 

 one master. — Rev. Encyc. Sept. 1830. 



10. Destruction of Live Stock by Wolves in Russia. — In the gov- 

 ernment of Livonia alone, the following anim.als were destroyed by 

 wolves in 1823. The account is an official one. 



1. Voltaic electricity. — Professor Saverio Barlocci, of Rome, in a 

 memoir on the influeiice oi solar light in the production of electrical 

 phenomena, relates the following experiments : — Having decomposed 

 a beam of light, by the solar prism, he caused the red ray, and the 

 violet ray to fall on two disks of copper, painted black, and to each 

 disk was adapted a copper wire. Two rings of copper sliding on two 

 vertical rods of glass, were attached each to one of the wires, so as 



*^ Of whom 362 are boys, and 632 girls. 



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