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4, Geneva. JMuseum.—The donations have been nei- 
ther less rich nor less abundant, than in the preceding year. 
They are not only the product of the generosity of our fel- 
low-citizens, but many strangers of distinction have been 
disposed to give to this establishment proof of the interest 
they take init. The apartments of mineralogy and orni- 
thology, have been particularly enriched by these new gifis. 
The museum has acquired a new kind of importance and 
usefulness ; its halls, laboratories, and instruments, were used 
during the last two winters, for gratuitous courses of chem- 
istry and philosophy, applied to the arts, and of elementary 
mathematics, which the committee of industry has opened to 
artists. These courses given by able professors, have been 
eagerly attended. The municipal council of Geneva has 
given a new proof of its desire to encourage and favour the 
culture of the sciences, in granting the sum of 40,000 florins, 
(about $3700,) for the purchase of the collection of appara- 
tus of Professor Pictet, ancient inspector general of public 
Instruction.—Rev. Encyc. Nov. 1824. 
5. Borpeaux Linnean Socrety.-This learned society 
celebrated for the seventh time, the féte of Charles Linnée, 
its illustrious patron. In the hall of the conservatory of 
arts, elegantly decorated, and ornamented with the bust of 
H. M. Charles X. a numerous and select company collected 
at an early hour. M. Dareeuas, the president, opened 
the session by an interesting discourse, on the pleasures and 
utility of the natural sciences, and particularly of botany. 
The lectures then commenced in the following order: A 
report upon the labours of the society, from November 
1823, to the present time, by M. Cuave, secretary The 
history of the coffee tree, by M. Venot, M. D. Notice of 
the French colonies of Senegal, by M. Treuuere, M. D. 
This notice informed the meeting that the Linnean Society 
of Senegal cherished the hope of naturalizing the coffee 
plant in that colony, the first stalk which had been produced 
having ornamented the room at the time of their celebration 
in July. Reflections upon the sensibility of vegetables by 
M. Cuansanen, M. D. Notice of the vine and its pro- 
ducts, by M. Partuon, M. D. A poem, entitled Rural 1l- 
lustons, in which was exhibited the portrait of an old man, 
who wished, before he expired, to enjoy for the last time, 
the spectacle of nature, produced in the meeting, feelings at 
