So that, for a population of about thirty-six millions, there are in Germany twenty-two universities; six belonging to Prussia, three to Bavaria, two to the Austrian states, two to the Grand Duchy of Baden, two to the Electorate of Hesse Cassel, and one to each of the following states, Saxony, Wirtemberg, Denmark, Hanover, the great duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Saxe-Weimar, and Switzerland.

Among the professors are enumerated not only the ordinary and extraordinary ones, but also the private masters, whose courses are announced in the weekly programmes. Popish Germany, containing about nineteen millions of inhabitants, possesses only six universities; while protestant Germany, for seventeen millions of inhabitants, has no less than seventeen: it has thus been calculated, that the proportion of students is one hundred and forty-nine to two hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, in the protestant parts of the country, and only sixty-eight to the same number in popish states. But it should be stated, that no mention is here made of the popish ecclesiastics, who study not in the universities, but in seminaries. Many other cities formerly possessed universities, which have been suppressed. Philo. Mag.

Magnetic Equator. The magnetic observations made by Captain Duperrey, of the Coquille sloop of war, which sailed from Toulon, on a voyage of discovery, in August, 1822, and returned to Marseilles in April last, are numerous and interesting Every body knows that there are on the surface of the globe, a number of spots where the compass ceases

*The king of Bavaria has ordered this university to be transferred to Munich, a a capital which offers many more resources for instruction than the small town of Landshut.

to point, and that a line drawn through those spots is called the magnetic equator. This equator must not be confounded with the terrestrial equator, round which it winds, as it were; sometimes passing to the north of it, and sometimes to the south, to a greater or less extent. In the course of his voyage, Duperrey crossed the magnetic equator six times; and the result of his observations renders it extremely probable, that the whole line is moving parallel from east to west, with such rapidity, that, since the year 1780, when its position was ascertained by scientific men in a very satisfactory manner, it has advanced no less than ten degrees towards the west. French paper.

Aerial Phenomena at the top of the Pic du Midi. M. Ramond has lately read to the Academy of Sciences at Paris, the conclusion of his memoir on the meteorology of the Pic du Midi. He has established the important fact, that, while the wind at the foot of the mountain blows in all directions, at its summit it is constantly southerly; and that this southerly current is that which the earth's motion produces in the higher regions of the atmosphere, from the equator to the poles.

One day Mr. Ramond was witness, on the Pic du Midi, of a singular spectacle; his own shadow, and the shadows of two persons who were with him, were thrown on a cloud a little distance above them, with a surprising exactness and sharpness of outline; and, which was more extraordinary, these shadows were surrounded by resplendent glories of the most brilliant hues. "A beholder of this magnificent sight," M. Ramond observes, "might fancy himself present at his own apotheosis." This effect has been observed by Bouguer, Saussure's sons, and others; and Bouguer explains the glory by the decomposition of light through frozen particles suspended in the cloud; but M. Ramond rejects this explanation, because the slightly elevated cloud on which the shadows appeared, could not, he thinks, from the temperature prevalent on the Pic, hold in suspension any frozen particles. Lond. Jour. of Science.

Power of the Sun's Rays. Mr. Mackintosh, an intelligent gentleman, who is contractor for the government works carrying on at Stonehouse Point, Plymouth, and descended in the divingbell with workmen, for the purpose of laying a foundation for a sea-wall, reports, that when the machine, which is provided with convex glasses in the upper part of the bell, was twenty-five feet under water, to his astonishment he perceived one of the workmen's caps smoking; on examining it, he found that the rays of the sun had converged through the glass, and burnt a hole in the cap; also, that similar effects had during hot weather frequently occurred on their clothes, so that the workmen, now aware of the cause, place themselves out of the focal point. Ibid.

Lamps without Wicks. Though Mr. Davis, a lecturer at Manchester, appears to have been the first to exhibit these lamps in the form in which they are now so generally known, yet, in justice to Mr. H. H. Blackadder, of Edinburgh, it should be stated, that the discovery of the principle, that oil passed through a capillary tube, produces a flame without the aid of a wick, is entirely due to him. He described the process in the "Edinburgh Philosophical Journal." New Month. Mag.

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