Adriano Balbi, an Italian geographer, born in Venice, April 25, 1782, died there, March 14, 1848. After holding a professorship of geography, sciences, and statistics in Italy, he spen' many years in Portugal while preparing several works relating to that country. He subsequently resided in Paris, receiving assistance from the French government, in 1832 went to Padua, and finally to Vienna, where the Austrian government gave him a pension. His principal works are: Atlas ethnographique du globe (Paris, 1826), a work of superior arrangement, containing the latest researches of German philologists, and Abrege de geographic (2 vols., 1832), a summary of geographical science, which has been translated into nearly all the European languages (English translation, "Abridgment of Geography,1' New York, 1835). With La Renaudiere and Huot he used to some extent unpublished writings of Malte-Brun in preparing a Traite elementaire de geographie (2 vols., 1830-'31). Among his other publications are: La monarchie franpaise com-paree aux principaux etats de l'Europe (Paris, 1828); Balance politique du globe (1828); l'Empire russe comparee aux principaux etats du monde (1829); "The World compared with the British Empire" (1830). His son, the geographer Eugenio Balbi, has edited a collection of his Scritti geograjici (5 vols., Turin, 1841-'2).