286 ‘Transactions of the Geological Society of France. 
way. (Lafeln zur Bestimmung d. Mineralien, etc. Munich, 1833, 
Ato.) 
M. G. Suckow has promised a work on Mineralogy for 1834, 
(Grundriss der Mineralogie. Darmstadt, 1834, 8vo.) 
Lronuarp has given a second edition of his Elements of oryc- 
tognosy, (Grundzug der Oryctognoste, in 8vo.) He has adopted 
the chemical system of GmELEN. 
Prof. Demetrius Soxotov has published at St. Petersburg, a 
treatise on Mineralogy, (Roukovadstvo k. Mineralogii, 2 vols. 8vo.) 
Gustavus Rosr has commenced his treatise on Mineralogy, by 
the publication of the crystallographical part of his work, (Elemente 
der Krystallographie, etc. Berlin, 1833, Svo.) After the example 
of MM. Weiss and Rarzesure, he gives at the end of the volume 
a complete table of the species arranged according to their different 
systems of crystallization, adding by the side of each mineral, its 
chemical formula and occasionally some interesting remarks. 
M. Uuope has given a philosophical essay, concerning the devel- 
opement of the mechanical laws of crystallization, (Versuch einer 
genetischen Entwickelung, etc. Bremen, 1833, 8vo.) 
MM. Leopotp Pitua and M. F. Cassoua, commenced in 1832, 
a semi-monthly journal of geology, entitled lo Spettatore del Vesu- 
vio di campi Flegrei. 
The Imperial Mineralogical society of St. Petersburg, have pub- 
ished but four Memoirs in 1831. The University of Moscow, com- 
menced in 1833, a monthly journal of Science, entitled Outcheniia 
ZLapiski imp. Moskovskago Ouneversiteta. Numerous libraries and 
cabinets for the illustration of science are rapidly forming in various 
parts of Russia. Even in the government of Irkutsk, in Siberia, a 
gymnasium which existed in 1805, has undergone much improve- 
ment since 1828. It has a library of many thousand volumes, a 
physical cabinet, a collection of minerals, of rocks and of shells. 
In a preparatory school of Mines, mineralogy and the sciences which 
are connected with mining, are taught. 
Russia presents a most remarkable example of the rapidity with 
which intelligence pervades a community but partially civilized. 
The government takes the lead in promoting this diffusion of knowl- 
edge. ‘The sciences contribute to the augmentation of national 
wealth, and the researches which this supports, lead to new discov- 
eries. 
