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Africa, La Crau. Nisines boasts not only of an interesting 
general collection, but a special one of the Ornithology of the 
Department of Gard. Montpellier has not fallen from her 
ancient fame, and though in the branch of science which now 
concerns us, she has lost a Duges, she yet contains several 
scientific men, including Professor Lallemand, whom we have 
seen amongst us, and from whom we have some valuable 
observations on the supposed spermatic Animalcules. Stras- 
burg, a city that shares in the advantages of France and of 
Germany, deservedly selected as the seat of the tenth scientific 
Congress of France, possesses a museum which has long been 
celebrated, as well for the professors which formerly adorned 
it, as for those which adorn it still, of whom we have an 
eminent example in our colleague M. Fee. Metz, happily 
situated on that Moselle, which was long since celebrated by 
the lyre of Ausonius, boasts of two faunse in its department, 
one preferable to the other. Rochefort is the abode of Lesson, 
who is ever influenced by that tendency of strong minds to 
attempt too much ; and if we might express a wish in his be- 
half, it would be, that he might be enabled to appear to more 
advantage, by residing in cities better supplied with books 
and cabinets. His last work treats of Man and the Simicse. 
The scientific journals are often adorned with his papers, or 
extracts from them. M. Allard, at Montbrisson, attracts the 
attention of naturalists, by his collection of the three kingdoms 
of nature, which receives daily additions and improvements. 
The nucleus of this collection, was that of Baron Feutrier, 
which still preserves objects possessed by the famous Buflbn. 
Not to be unduly prolix, I confine myself to Normandy, in 
which not only the ancient capital Rouen, but the learned 
city of Caen, and even the little Falaise, are decorated with 
Scientific Societies, Transactions, and Museums. That of 
Rouen is worthily presided over by Professor Pouchet, author 
of a Treatise on Botany, and of an equally valuable one on 
Zoology, of which the second and improved edition has been 
published in the present year; the only work hitherto in 
which the doctrines of his celebrated master, Blainville, are 
adequately developed. A devoted friend to this institution, 
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