But numerous as have been writers of poetic and dramatic literature during the present century in Germany, the tendency of the German mind has of late years been rather to science than fiction; and the immense impetus given to time taste for scientific inquiry by A. von Humboldt's travels and observations, and by his Cosmos and Views of _Nature, has been followed by the prosecution of the most profound researches in every department of physical and natural science, and by the appearahee,of a multitude of records of travel, among the more important of which we can only instance a few, as, for example, those of Illartius in Brazil, Pi ppig in S. America, Tschudi in Peru, Schu bert in Greece, Lepsius and Brugsch in Egypt, Schomburgk in British Guiana, Glitz laff in China, Siebold in Japan, the three brothers Schlagentweit in tilt; Alps and in Central Asia, Barth and Vogel in Africa, and Leichhardt in Australia. In conclusion, we can only group together the names of a few of the many eminent Germans who by their labors have at once enriched the science of the world, and enhanced the literary and scientific glory of their own country. again referring to writers whom we .may have already mentioned, we may specially instance, in astronomy and mathematics, Bessel, Encke, Struve, Gauss. and Mitdler; in the natural sciences, and in medicine, J.
MUller, Ehrenberg, Carus, Oken, Schleiden, Von Buch, Liebig, Kopp, Simon Dove, Valentin Moleschott, Bischoff, Rose, Poggen dorf, Erdmann, Gmelin, Grille, Vogel, Rokitansky, Wagner, Schonbein, Helmholtz, and Dieffenbach; in history and biog raphy, Niebuhr, Leo, Duncker, Preuss, Bottiger, Varnhagen von Ense,.Pertz, Lappen berg, Pauli, etc.; in geography, ethnology, statistics, and travels, Berghaus, Petermann, Stein, Hubner, KlUden, Kohl, Reinbeck, Bunsen, Ideler, Lassen, Unger, Zimmermann; in the history of language, literature, and the fine arts, and on politics and the social sciences, Vilmar, Bouterwek, Kuno Fischer, Waagen, Heinsius, Heyse, Becker, Creu zer, Lersch, Wachler, Ernesti, Jacobs, Savigny, Eichhorn, Ersch. See Grimm, Geschichte d. Deutschen Sprache, and Deutsche Grammatik ; Bopp, Comparative Gram mar ; Bessel, Heber des Leben des ; M. Muller, On the Science of Language; Kober stein, Gra ndri.ss der Deutschen Nationalliteratur ; the works of Wackernagel, Vilmar, Kurz, and Cholevius; and in English, Hallam's Europe in the Middle Ages.