Other Public Academical Institutions. 
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scientific library. In winter, lectures and demonstrations are held for 
physicians, who also find constant opportunities for scientific work in 
the institute. Lectures on botany are delivered in winter and 
in summer. 
The Senckenberg Society of Natural Science, and the 
Physical Union are learned societies which, at the same time, 
arrange for lectures and practical courses. Also the Free German 
Higher Collegiate Foundation (Freies Deutsches Hochstift) or- 
zanises courses and single lectures. 
In Dresden, the Gehe Foundation, established and richly 
endowed by F. S. Gehe, a merchant who died in 1882, extends its 
educational sphere of action chiefly to political economy and po- 
litical science. Three teachers are permanently appointed, and be- 
sides every winter several single lectures are delivered by scholars 
from elsewhere,