in her scientific annals; and proud, as
well she may be, of having fostered and brought to maturity the genius
of the first Herschel, she has reaped an ample reward in being able to
claim as entirely her own, the inheritor of his talents and his name.

The six succeeding days were occupied, in the morning, by a meeting
of the academy, at which papers of general interest were read. In
the afternoon, through the arrangement of M. de Humboldt and M.
Lichtenstein, various rooms were appropriated for different sections of
the academy. In one, the chemical philosophers attended to some
chemical memoir, whilst the botanists assembled in another room, the
physiologists in a third, and the natural philosophers in a fourth. Each
attended to the reading of papers connected with their several sciences.
Thus every member was at liberty to choose that section in which he felt
most interest at the moment, and he had at all times power of access to
the others. The evenings were generally spent at some of the SOIREES
of the savans, resident at Berlin, whose hospitality and attentions to
their learned brethren of other countries were unbounded. During the
unoccupied hours of the morning, the collections of natural history,
which are rapidly rising into importance, were open to examination; and
the various professors and directors who assisted the stranger in his
inquiries, left him equally gratified by the knowledge and urbanity of
those who so kindly aided him.

A map of Europe was printed, on which those towns only appeared which
had sent representatives to this scientific congress; and the numbers
sent by different kingdoms appeared by the following table, which was
attached to it;--

Russia......... 1
Austria........ 0
England........ 1
Holland........ 2
Denmark........ 7
France ........ 1
Sardinia ....... 0
Prussia........ 95
Bavaria........ 12
Hanover........ 5
Saxony ........ 21
Wirtemburg ...... 2
Sweden ........ 13
Naples ........ 1
Poland ........ 3
German States..... 43
--- 206
Berlin ....... 172
--- 378

The proportion in which the cultivators of different sciences appeared,
was not easy to ascertain, because there were few amongst the more
eminent who had not added to more than one branch of human knowledge.
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