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little success in France, but this is rather the fault of the public than of 
the Professors. The attendance of 3000 of the common people upon a 
course of lectures on embryology, delivered by Agassiz, which we saw at 
Boston, in 1849, is a spectacle which even Cuvier himself was not able to 
secure at Paris, Daubrée has now a vast field open before him, and no 
Museum of Florence—Since we are speaking of the scientific 
movements now oing on in Italy, we may mention, that the visit of 
th 
@Armo, Cuvier studied them in place during his travels in Italy, and it 
‘ppears that since that period eh have not been much disturbed. 
useum of Bologna, founded by Aldrovandus, is fully worthy 
of the high reputation of being the most ancient, and for a long time 
ine Most important museum in Europe 
les very important in relation to the history of the science. Mr. 
Si has hind some objects figured by Aldrovandus and others, of 
Curyceros, and the fragment of a skull preser 
°f Bologna will prove probably that classifying it with the great stag 
Peat of Ireland is an error. ‘ 
Flo eh of Ttaly._The Italian geologists have pa at 
ee to deliberate upon the practical means of executing a geal oe 
uP of Italy. ‘The Exhibition at Florence suggested the idea of thi 
*eunion, and I am happy to be able to transmit some information in 
