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in that university, has been rendered more precious by the 
learned illustrations of them, undertaken by that active dis- 
ciple of Schlegel, Dr. De Filippi, whose profound knowledge 
of anatomy, and of comparative physiology, seems to refute 
the too strong assertion of the Barbassori, that forty years of 
study, and grey hairs, are necessary to make an anatomist. 
Milan, which has been generously enriched with tlie Decris- 
tofori collection, so well intrusted to the care of Professor 
Balsamo Crivelli, is preparing herself to receive, in a suitable 
manner, the Italian Scientific Congress. And if Dr. De 
Filippi confines himself to the study of Vertebrate Animals, 
the city is more than compensated by her eminent students 
of Malacology, such as the noble Signor Carlo Porro, the able 
compiler of a classed bibliography on that subject ; and of 
Entomology, such as the noble Signor Carlo Bassi, who from 
his very infancy gave token that his genius had happily led 
him to that branch of natural history, in which the serenity 
of his mind and of his style does honour to himself and to 
his country. 
The Venetian provinces yield in nothing to those of Lom- 
bardy, there being one Institute of Science, which is divided 
in equal proportion between both regions. This is not the 
place to speak of many eminent men who compose it. In 
Venice, I mil only mention the ornithological collections of 
Count Contarini, who has made excellent observations on 
the Birds of that country. The many learned writings of 
Dr. Nardo, who is always engaged in completing his Fauna 
Adriatica, are familiar to you ail, as tending to perfect, in 
every point of view, the natural system of Ichthyology. 
Verona has her scientific societies, and thanks to the prudent 
zeal of her citizens, she even has private parties so arranged 
as to be useful to science. The Italian Tyrol also boasts of 
her collections. Even from Chioggia the learned city of Padua 
attracted to her library Professor Naccari, who, if he has not 
yet joined this institution, has certainly the merit of having 
been the first to publish the Embryos of Faunse in the form of 
catalogues, and who yields to none in zeal. Bclluno, abound- 
ing in Birds, has produced a. very useful oniithological synopsis : 
