In the first rank amongst these stood a name which, England, too, enrolls amongst the brightest 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. The following table, though not professing to be very accurate, will afford, perhaps, a tolerably fair view:-- Geometers............. 11 Astronomers........... 5 Natural Philosophers . 23 -- 39 Mines............ 5 Mineralogy ...... 16 Geology.......... 9 -- 30 Chemistry........... 18 Geography........... 8 Anatomy............. 12