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of the body in length. This is named by 
Citizen Lacepede, the long-necked tortoife. 
He next deferibes feveral fpecies of lizards, 
one of which, amongtt others, is very re- 
markable by the form of its tail, which’ 
although very thin, at its firft proceeding 
from the body, terminates ina diik as 
broad as the head. The author, on this 
account, names it the difcofure. And, 
Jaftly, he defcribes.a reptile extremely fin- 
gular, inafmuch as it is a biped. The 
mufeum have fix individuals in their pol 
feflion, lately brought over by Captain 
Baudin. Citizen Lacepede is of opinion 
that New Holland fhould be confidered as 
one of thele 26 divifions, into which he 
has judged it neceflary to divide the ter- 
reftrial globe underthe relation of Zoology. 
It is to be regretted that the public can 
fo feldom partake of the benefit of feeing 
engraved copies of the chef d@uvres in 
the gallery of Dretden. Since the publi- 
cation of la Madonna de Raphael, by 
ScuuLze£, nothing has appeared fince. 
Artifts that wifh to copy any painting or 
other woik of art out of the gallery, meet 
with extraordinary impediments. As the 
academy has an annual revenue of 16,000 
rix dollars, it can hardly be ceconomical 
reafons that prevent the public from being 
gratified in its wifhes. It is with much 
difficulty that the Chalcographic Society 
of Defiau, have been able to procure the 
engraving of fome of the beft known 
paintings from the above repofitory, guard- 
ed with fo much jealoufy. The engravers 
of Saxony are moftly obliged to, employ 
their talents, in decorating frivilous ro- 
mances, almanacks, &c. AW. B@HM, 
however, has lately engraved, in the fron- 
tifpiece of the new teftament publifhed by 
Geetchem, a beautiful copy of the virgin, 
from Carlo Dolce. 
The dramatic works of Count AL- 
FIERI have bren lately tranflated from the 
Ftalian into French, by Citizen B. Perti- 
TOT, of Paris. 4. vols. in octavo. 
The Emperor Alexander I. has lately 
new organized the ancient univerfity of 
Wilna, founded in the year 1578, and 
renewed in 1731, ona plan fimilar to the 
eftablifhments in Germany, of the fame 
kind and fubordinate to the minifter of 
public inftrufion. The council confift- 
ing of profeflors Emeriti, of a€tual profef- 
fors, ot a rector and a curator, to be eleét- 
ed by a majority of votes in the general 
afiembly of the univerfity’s honorary 
members, national and foreigners, to be 
admitted. Foreigners, members of the 
univerfities, are. allowed to quit the em- 
pire, without being liable to pay any taxes 
Literary and Phiisfophical Intelligence. 
[Sept. 1, 
towards the fife. On their entrance into 
Ruffia they may bring ctteéts to the value 
of 3000 roubles, without payihg any 
duties. Tne annual revenue is fixed at 
105,000 roubles in filver, to be defrayed 
by the treafurer of the empire. The 
annual falary of the profeflors, to bea 
1oco roubles ia filver for the principal 
courfes, and 500 ditto, for each jupple- 
mentary couife, &c. 
Citizen BERNARDIN DE Sr. PizRRE, 
the celebrated author of Etudes de la Na- 
ture; or, Studies of Nature, and of Paul 
aad Virginie, (the names of his eldeft fon 
and eldeft daughter), is about to publith 
the latter work, by which he owns has 
gained him the moft friends, by fubfcrip- 
tion, (which has been tranflated into al- 
moft all the European language,) for the 
benefit of his 3 children, of whom. his 
eldett daughter is only 9 years of age, 
and his laft body is carried in the arms of 
his young mother, who nurfes him. ‘The 
intended edition, will contain, befides 
what is in the preceeding ones, a particu- 
Jar advertifement, an explication of the 
figures, fome new netes, an abridged no- 
tice cf the principal works of the celebrat- 
ed artifts that are exciting them(elves to 
bring out the work, in ali the perfection 
of French typography and engraving, and 
a lift of the names of the fubicribers. 
The univerfity of Wurtzburg is the 
only eftablifhment of the kind, fubfifting 
in the newly ceded Bavarian provinces. 
Agreeably to an ordinance lately publifh- 
ed by the eleGtor, this academy will in 
future, be commen to the pupils of both 
the Proteftant and the Catholic religions; 
of courfe, the faculty of theology is to be 
divided into two fections, one of Pro- 
teflant profeffors, and the other of Catho- 
lic ditto. The faculties of jurifprudence 
and of medicine have been confiderably 
ameliorated, particularly the latter, which 
now has chairs for letures efiablithed in 
the hofpitals and occupied by the phyfici- 
ans of thofe houfes. The hofpitals of 
Wurtzburg enjoy the reputation of being 
the beft organized in Germany. One of 
the fuppoted convents is to be converted 
into a lying-in hofpital. A new faculty 
has been founded for philofophy, at the 
head of which the eleétor has placed the 
celebrated SCHELLINGE, of Jena. A 
particular leéturefhip is alfo intended to 
be created for inftruGiicn in the commer. 
cial fciences. In general, the elef&tor has 
confiderably augmented the funds of the 
univerfity ; and an.ong other benefits has 
endowed it with the revenues of feveral 
chapters, abbeys, and fecularized convents. 
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