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complaisance to permit his head (o be rr.oddicd entire. Craniolosj'. 

 The writer of this article adds, that if craniology should 

 continue to be fashionable in German}', it will be but a 

 point of common prudence in all celebrated men to follow 

 this example, in order that their craniums m.ay be suffered 

 to remain in their graves. The same artist, Klauer, his 

 executed in plaster a cranium, furnished with all the pro- 

 tuberances and organs for the use of students of the theory 

 of Dr. Gall. 



We also learn, that Dr. Kelch, professor of anatomy, 

 at Konigsberg, has examined the cranium of the celebrated 

 Kant, and finds that it is amply provided with all the pro- 

 tuberances and indentations which Dr. Gall has announced 

 as indicative of the talents which that Gex'man philosopher 

 has displayed. 



Greek Manuscripts probably existing in Russia. 



The St. Petersburgische Monathschrift, a monthly Journal, Probability that 

 published in the capital of the Russian empire, contains an "\^"y ^''^^'^ 

 article which is highly interesting to literature. It relates to recovered in 

 the progress of knowledge and civilization in Russia, from the I^^^sia. 

 earliest ages to the time of Peter the Great. The most striking 

 part, is that in which considerable hopes are entertained that 

 some of the Greek manuscripts, which are supposed to be lost, 

 will be recovered in that empire. Kotzebue, in his periodical 

 work, gives the following abridged account. 



Jaroslas I. son of the great Waladimir, caused a great Narrative res 1 

 number of learned men to come from Greece, and employed P^^^'^S *'^^"^ 

 them to translate into Sclavonian those Greek books of which, 

 the originals were at Kiow, in the church of St. Sophia. Con- 

 gtantine was so much attached to the sciences, that he pos- 

 sessed more than a thousand Greek manuscripts, many of which 

 were translated by his orders into Sclavonian, and distributed 

 in the schools. Alexis Michalowitz being desirous of coni- 

 paring the translations with the text, purchased in Greece, 

 particularly at Mount Athos, about five hundred manuscripts, 

 which are still at Moscow, in the library of the Synod. If it 

 be allowed that this last collection may consist almost to- 

 tally of bibles, or the works of the fathers, it may nevertheless 



be 



