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loffes which Pavia fuftained lat year by 
the death of the illuftrious SPALLANZANI,: 
of BARLETTI, of PRESCIANI, and of the 
oetical geometetr, MASCHERONI, and ex- 
clufive of thofe caufed by the abfence of 
MoscamTl, of GREGorY FonTawna, and 
the difgrace of CARMINATI, the untyer- 
fity fill retains that air of {plendour which 
rendered it formerly one of the moft bril- 
liant in Europe. The univerfity is di- 
vided into three faculties, philofophy, me- 
dicine, and law. The elements of ma- 
- thematics are taught by Mariano Fon- 
TANA. ‘The learned “Gregory Fontana 
has beenremoved from the chair of mathe- 
matics to be employed on the Cifalpine 
code. His place is fupplied by LorTert. 
The mixed mathematics have been con- 
fided to Profeflor GRaTOGNINI. ALEX- 
ANDER Nogza retains the chair of phy- 
fics ; his lectures are very inftructive ; he 
follows the experimental phyfics of Pout. 
The fingular difeovery of VoLTa, refpec- 
ting the electric fluid, has been already pub- 
lifhed in the literary journals: Heis at pre- 
fent labouring with indefatigable zeal on 
new and ingeniousexperiments. It is hoped 
he will foon. have it in his power, from a 
number of fa&ts collected, to forma theory 
which may throw fome light-on the ob- 
{cure phenomena. 
paring a Memoir, which contains a fylla- 
bus of all that he has done in eleétricity 
during one year, with many details on the 
gefcription of his apparatus, &c. In the 
abfence of VENTURI, Profeflor Benrer- 
BEN explains general phyfics. MaNGILLI 
fucceeds SPALLANZANI in the department 
efnatural hiftory. The Confervators of the 
Mufeum are, Citizen Royp for zoology ; 
and MarTinic formineralogy. ‘The courfe 
of Profeflor Granorint has for its obje& 
the analy fis of ideas. In the faculty of medi- 
cine, the profeffor isthe Ex-conful of Rome, 
PaNnazzi. This phyfician is a fubfitute 
for the learned Moscati, who has been 
for many months incaptivity. Pathology 
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He is, at leaft, pre- 
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is taught by Dr. Raccr. ‘This chair has 
been taken away from Rasorl, on ac- 
count of his predileétion for the Brownian 
doétrine, Dr. Panazzr fupplies the part 
of Mofcati; in the theorico-pra&tical as 
weli as in the clinical part of mediciné. 
Legal medicine and the police of medicine 
are the objeét of another courle given by 
the phyfician Racci. The {chool of chee 
miftry is maintained with diftinction by 
BRUGNATELLI. He is now occupied in 
the experiments of Volta on the diffolution 
of metals by the electric acid. In fact, 
the difcovery of Volta is yet in its infancy ; 
only a {mall number of fats are collected, 
and prudence feems to require, that we 
follow ele€tricity in its combination with 
oxygen, before we undertake to advance 
a theory. Nocca reads'leftures of agri- 
culture till the {pring, when he will com- 
mence his courfe of botany.  Profeffor 
SCaRPa continues to demonftrate anatomy 
in the univerfity, and to perform the cli- 
nical part of chirurgery in the hofpital of 
The young ftudents flock in 
crowds to both the courfes. » Young 
Jacost, nephew of Scarea, has obtains 
ed, under the title of Repetitor, the chair 
of comparative anatomy and phyfiology, 
vacant by the premature death of Pres- 
ciant. The inftitutes of chirurgery and 
midwifery enter. into the JeGtures of 
Profeffor Nesst. Of the faculty of law, 
the letter of Citizen Salmon takes little 
notice, but informs us, that Monry, the 
Roman poet, one of the moft celebrated 
of Italy, is profeffor of eloquence; alfo, 
that Nani reads leGiures on the criminal 
law, and BurFriGNaNpD1 on the treaties 
of civil jurifprudence, the hifttory of laws 
and cuftoms, with the elementary princi- 
ples of law; and ALPRUNI on the law of 
nature and the rights of nations., And 
laftly, the letter obfervés, that Profeffor 
RidoxFr gives a differtation twice a week 
on geography and natural hiftory. 
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