UPSA'LA, a town in Sweden, situated in 51' N. lat., 17° 30' E. long., in an extensive undulating plain, about 300 feet above the sea-level, and has about 5000 inhabitants. The town, which is largo for Sweden, extends over a considerable area, as there are largo gardens to most of the houses. The houses are partly of stone and partly of wood, and mostly two stories high. The streets are wide and straight, and there is a spacious square in the centre of the town. The cathedral was erected between 1258 and 1435, and is con sidered the finest gothic building in the north of Europe. It contains monuments of many distinguished persons, among others of Gustavus I. and Lin:musk. Formerly the kings of Sweden were crowned in this cathedral. The square in which the church stands is surrounded by buildings belonging to the university, which has a library containing nearly 100,000 volumes, a collection of coins, an anatomical theatre, an observatory, a chemical laboratory, and a very extensive collection of natural objects. There is also a botanical garden. The university
was established in 1478; it is governed by a chancellor, and has four facultiee —law, medicine, philosophy, and theology. The number of regular professors amounts to 24, and that of adjunct professors to 14. Tho average annual number of students who attend the lectures is about 1000. The curriculum is modelled on that of the German universities. The Society of Sciences, instituted in 1719, has pub fished several volumes of ' Transactions.' Upsala has also a grammar school, several charitable institutions, and an agricultural society. About 6 miles S.E. from Upsala are the ' morn-stones,' at which the Swedes elected their kings between 1140 and 1520.