392 Foreign Laterature and Science. 
Zoology, Entomology, Botany and Mineralogy, and. the... 
collection of drawings is said to be one of the most remark- 
able which has ever been seen as to the number and variety | 
of its subjects, and will furnish materials for the most inter- 
esting and complete work which navigation has ever yet 
produced. The national museum will be greatly enriched ." 
by these discoveries and collections. The report concludes; - 
thus. ‘‘ It remains for the Academy to desire only two. 
things,—first, that.a publication, sufficiently in detail should 
speedily be made in order that science may reap the ben- 
efit deducible from this voyage.—Secondly, that labours so...’ 
arduous and important may claim for those who have per- ) 
formed them the just rewards of Government. These re- 
wards will become fresh motives. of encouragement, to. the 
officers and all other persons attached to the service of our 
marine, to circulate every kind of knowledge which may 
place them in a condition to render those important servi- 
ces to science which the interesting and curious event of 
these voyages may enable them to furnish.” 
55. Leipsic fair.—This is the most famous place in. the 
world for the sale of books. _ At the Easter fair of last year, 
there were exhibited 12,700 new works in German, Greek 
and Latin, and 262 in foreign languages, such as French, 
Ttalian Danish, Polish, &c. " 
56. The fair of Nishegorod in Russia, which is attended 
by large caravans from Buchava, was last year so abundant 
that the merchandise brought to market, was estimated at 
139 millions of Rubles, about 33,360,000 dollars.—.4@n. de 
Pindustrie Nationale No. 7. 
57, Consumption of Coffee.—At atime when commerce 
is languishing, it is not useless to note as one of the causes. 
of this evil the prodigious diminution in the consumption of 
coffee. Ithas. been calculated that anterior to 1819, the 
common. consumption in Europe rose to 69 millions of 
pounds, whilst in 1819 it, was only 37 millions.—Idem. 
58. Caterpillars.—A gardiner at Glasgow, having obser- 
ved that a piece of woollen cloth which, blown by the wind, 
had accidently lodged upon a goose-berry bush, was soon 
covered with caterpillars, took the hint of putting pieces of 
