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in which it is contained, belong to the academy. The former fu- 
perintendant of the cabinet, Mr. Sparmann, has been fet afide, 
and fucceeded by Dr. Quenzel, a young man of great induflry, 
to whom the academy are indebted for the new order in which 
the cabinet, that was formerly in the utmofl confufion, is now ar¬ 
ranged. Dr. Quenzel is a confiderable proficient in natural hif- 
tory, and the academy could not have made choice of a more 
proper perfon for undertaking that charge. 
In 1799 the academy was divided into feven different claffes, 
and a certain number of members was afligned to each. This 
divifion of the fciences was indeed a fevere trial of the abilities of 
the academicians. In order to make fuch a diflribution with 
philofophical precifion, it would have been necefiary either to de¬ 
duce the genealogy of all the fciences and correfponding arts, from 
the parental flock of common principles in the human mind ; or 
in fome other way to have made an accurate, though g meral 
clarification of the various objedls of truth or knowledge. 
The great Lord Bacon formed a plan in his book De Augments 
Sclent 1 arum, of all the arts and fciences of which man is capable, 
by referring them to the leading powers of the mind ; memory, 
judgment, and imagination. This plan has been followed almofl 
by every author that has come after him, even by the writers of 
the^French Encyclopaedia. But thefe gentlemen have declared, 
with great candour and judgment, that they experienced an em- 
barrafiment in the arrangement of their fubjedts, in proportion to 
the latitude allowed of arbitrary choice ; as the different branches 
of 
