till live in the memory of the Swedish nation, and
are honoured for their patriotism and valour.

{54} The University of Upsala is the most celebrated in the north. It
owes its origin to Sten Sturre, the regent of the kingdom, by whom it was
founded in 1476, on the same plan as the University of Paris. Through
the influence of the Jesuits, who wished to establish a new academy in
Stockholm, it was dissolved in 1583, but re-established in 1598.
Gustavus Vasa, who was educated at Upsala, gave it many privileges, and
much encouragement; and Gustavus Adolphus reconstituted it, and give it
very liberal endowments. There are twenty-four professors, and the
number of students is between four and five hundred.--ED.

{55} See novel of _Ivar_, _the Skjuts Boy_, by Miss Emilie Carlen.

{56} At Calmar was concluded, in 1397, the famous treaty which bears its
name, by which Denmark, Sweden, and Norway were united under one crown,
that crown placed nominally on the head of Eric Duke of Pomerania, but
virtually on that of his aunt Margaret, who has received the name of "the
Semiramis of the North." --ED.

{57} There is now a railway direct from Hamburgh to Berlin.--ED.

{58} A florin is about two shillings sterling.--_Tr._

{59} Herr T. Scheffer of Modling, near Vienna, gives the following
characteristic of this new dipteral animal, which belongs to the family
muscidae, and resembles the species borborus:

_Antennae_ deflexae, breves, triarticulatae, articulo ultimo phoereco;
seda nuda.

_Hypoctoma_ subprominulum, fronte lata, setosa. _Oculi_ rotundi, remoti.
Abdomen quinque annulatum, dorso nudo. _Tarsi_ simplices. _Alae_
incumbentes, abdomine longiores, nervo primo simplici.

Niger, abdomine nitido, antennis pedibusque rufopiceis.

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