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and who notwithstanding the successive losses of his remit- 

 tances, in natural history and antiquity, collected in India, 

 has not failed to enrich his country with nnany very curious 

 things, took possession of his chair as professor of Physics 

 and natural history at Leyden on the 3d of May last, by a 

 discourse ; De augmentis, quiz historice naturali ex Indies in- 

 vestigatione accesserunt. He fills the place vacated by the 

 death of the celebrated professor Brugmans. Professor 

 Siegenbeck has celebrated this academical solemnity by a 

 piece of latin verse in which the success of an illustrious 

 and more fortunate traveller is finely distinguished. 

 Sic, meliore usus fortuna, Humboldius, ille, 

 Inclyta Germani gloria lausque soli, 

 Ventorum sprevit rabiem, et graviora pericla, 

 Barbaries hominum quae subiunda dabat, 

 Et, nubes superans nunc, mox in Viscera terras 

 Descendens, late qua patet orbis, opes, 

 Quas habet immensas rerum natura, stupenti 

 Intulit Europae, nomen ad astra ferens. 



20. Public Instruction. — MethodofJ.J. Ordinaire. — -The 

 unequivocal success which has attended the method of 

 teaching latin, invented by Oi'dinaire, Rector of the Acade- 

 my of Besancon, authorizes us to remind our readers, 

 that since the publication of this method in January 1821 

 we have directed their attention to the importance and the 

 happy results of the applications which it has successively 

 received. 



The theoretic principles upon which it is founded, had 

 obtained the unanimous approbation of the members of a 

 special commission, to whose judgment the work had been 

 submitted by the royal council. This commission composed 

 of inspectors-general, and professors of great learning and 

 experience, terminated its report by proposing that a large 

 school should be established in Paris for the purpose of ap- 

 plying the system under the direction of the inventor him- 

 self. Various circumstances have delayed the execution 

 of this project. M. Ordinaire deeply convinced of the rec- 

 titude of his principles, and entertaining no doubt of the 

 success of their application, of which he had made such 

 rigorous trials, commenced on the first of June 1821, the 

 application of his method at Paris in the fine establishment 

 of M. Morin in Rue Louis le Grand. The superiority of 



