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STATE OF ZOOLOGY 
Madagascar, a point which remains for verification. It is cer- 
tain, that by the inspection of Chinese drawings, we learn that 
this, or another equally crested, inhabits the waters of 
that region. Nor can we pass over in silence, the growing col- 
lections of the University of Grenoa ; nor the worthy professor 
who presides over it ; nor the unrivalled entomologist, Massi- 
miliano Spinola, whose capacious mind embraces at once the 
highest philosophy of the science, and the minute details of 
insects; nor the zealous naturalist Verany, founder of an in- 
teresting ornithological collection at Nice, a diligent designer 
of animals, and second to none in the knowledge of Cephalo- 
poda. But in Turin, undoubtedly the most cultivated city of 
Italy, we need not wonder to see the three chief branches of 
natural history respectively superintended by three men, equal 
in every virtue and talent, a Gene, a Moris, a Sismonda. The 
first of these, an eminent zoologist, though entirely devoted to 
editing the Transactions of the Turin Congress, has not wanted 
time or energy to continue his researches on the Animals of 
Sardinia, and to enrich the incomparable museum of which I 
was lately a witness, as well as to study the fresh-water fish 
of that kingdom, from which great results are promised for 
Ichthyology. Dr. Bellingeri ceases not to investigate the 
fecundity of animals, and the development of their intellect, 
from which researches he deduces many ingenious arguments. 
Pavia preserves her ancient lustre, which is amply main- 
tained by Busconi, always intent on liis profound studies, 
especially on the Batracliia^ with which he alone has hitherto 
been dissatisfied ; and which will open to us, I feel confident, 
a new field of knowledge, including the anatomy of the Pleu- 
rodeles, which I discovered in that collection, where for fifty 
years it lay confused with the Tritons and Salamanders. And 
now the country of this distinguished man boasts also in 
respect to Zootomy, of a Panizza, who ever strives for the 
attainment of fame, formerly by means of medical and now 
by natural science, and whose advancement is likely to be 
aided by his ingenious scalpel which he generously dedicates 
to our instruction, of which his excellent Memoir on the Lam- 
prey is a recent example. The rich collection of Serpents, 
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