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1812i] The New University of Berlin, 
than comprehensive, which he has pre¬ 
sented to the King of Prussia, for the 
use of the new university. The care of 
this collection has been committed to the 
learned Illger, a profound explorer of 
nature, who has been culled from 
Brunswick to the new university, as 
pgirticularly capable of rendering this 
collection of curiosities useful. The 
King has likewise, for the same mu¬ 
seum, recently purchased of Herbst, 
a cjergyman at Berlin^ his famous 
collection of crustaceous fish ; and nego- 
ciations for various other collections have 
been set on foot. If to these be united 
the regularly classified botanical-garden, 
under the care of the great Wildenow, 
the whole will not fad to be productive 
of the most gratifying results in the study 
of physiology. 
The celebrated Hermstaedt w-ill read 
lectures on Technology and Ciiemistry, 
and Will be ably supported and assisted 
by other eminent chemists, A course of 
lectures on Mathematics and Astro¬ 
nomy, will he delivered by Professors 
'I'rallers and Oltmanns. Trallers 
will have apartments in the palace, where 
a small observatory is to be built for 
practical instruction, and rooms will 
be prepared for him for the pur¬ 
pose of making experiments in the 
theory of colours, constructed after 
the plan of Goethe. The Royal Ob¬ 
servatory, over which Bode and Ideler 
pieside, will likewise be included in the 
arrangement, because the Academy of 
Arts and Sciences is in every respect to 
be closely united with tlie university. 
Proi'essor Keil, from Halle, with a 
salary adequate Co his merit, has 
been appointed over the department 
of Medicine.; and w-ill accordingly 
commence his lectures in the course 
of the present winter. The coun¬ 
sellor of state, IIoFELAND, will also pre¬ 
side over a department ot the university, 
and deliver lectures on various eco¬ 
nomical subjects. Practical Surgery is 
to be taught by BeRnsi ejn, from HuUe, 
Other physicians and professors of medi¬ 
cine and surgery, who have long consti¬ 
tuted at Berlin an independent school, 
to which students from ditferent parts of 
the country resorted, will now be united 
with the University; anarrangementwhich, 
it is expected, will be attended with the 
happiest effects.—For the juridical de¬ 
partment, Savigny, from Lanchkuty lias 
been engaged, and will begin a course of 
lectures bu civil law. Several other 
publicists Gdtiin^en^ 
LeipsiCf and Jerea, have likewise been 
applied to. Schmalz and other 
lawyers of established celebrity need 
only be mentioned.—The faculty of 
Theology was not in October sufhciently 
organised; De Wette, invited from 
Heidelberg, was nevertheless to begin to 
deliver a course of lectures critical and 
explanatory.—Wiiatever appertains to 
antiquarian knowledge and philology w-ill 
be taught by the celebrated Wolfius; to 
which department his Latin lectures, de¬ 
livered last winter, were considered 
as a formal introduction, Blittmann, 
Spalding, HEiNDORF,and Bernhardi, 
w-ill assist in reading lectures in their 
respective sciences, Wileon and Sar- 
TORIES are to preside* over the his¬ 
torical department. The bare mention 
of a Fichte and a Schleiermachee 
suffices to indicate that abstract philo¬ 
sophy has not been disregarded. The 
university is therefore now opened^ both 
for masters and for students. It is go¬ 
verned by an appropriate academic se¬ 
nate; and will be provided with every 
arrangement that has for centuries been 
tried, approved, and adopted, as useful in 
the discipline of great public schools. 
The University at Helmstaedt merits, 
above all others, an impressive notice 
at its dissolution. Its influence on 
the culture and improvement of science, 
in Germany, was so considerable, that 
its fame will be reiterated by remote 
posterity. In those prosperous times 
when, about 1634, it was the com¬ 
mon parent of learning within the do¬ 
minions of seven, and about 1641 of 
three, illustrious principalities; it w-as 
justly styled “ their most splendid orna¬ 
ment and most valuable treasure,’' It 
lust much of its ancient splendor, 
when George II. in 1737, resumed the 
property bestowed on it by his pre¬ 
decessors ; and erected at Gottingen^ 
under the direction of Mukchhausen, 
the Georgia Augusta. Well may to 
the latter be addressed the line of Ho¬ 
race: 0 matre pidchi afilia pulchrior I 
The daughter did not merely obscure 
the mother’s lustre, bur, tlie latter being 
dead, the former beepmes the heiress 
of the deceased. But Helmstaedt will 
nevertheless receive due .honours after 
her demise; the learned Bruns having, 
previous to his being removed from 
HclmsUiedt, began to publish a Register 
of the famous men who had Uistm- 
guislied that seat of learning; to which 
the University Library furnished mat®= 
riabj which had been collected with in-s 
