594 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



Smithsonian Institution, which also furnished a collection of 

 about eight hundred species obtained from Dr. Brende, of 

 Illinois, a collection of plants made by Mr. J. A. Allen on 

 the Yellowstone expedition under General Stanley, and one 

 hundred and six boxes, embracing hundreds of specimens of 

 models of German fungi. Numerous other similar contribu- 

 tions were also received, the most important of which was a 

 series of the mosses of Central Europe, from Mr. Paul Reinsch. 

 Such of these specimens as were wanting in the herbarium 

 of the department have been placed in it, and the remainder 

 constitute a stock set aside for transmission to various es- 

 tablishments in America and Europe, including the leading 

 herbaria. 



EUROPEAN SAVANS IN AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. 



Professor Proctor writes to The Academy in reference to 

 the policy of the importation by America of European savans 

 as professors in colleges, directors of observatories, etc., and 

 remarks that, at all the chief centres of scientific culture, 

 whether in New England, the Middle, or Western States, he 

 found the general sentiment favorable to such action. He, 

 however, states that while at the college of his adoption such 

 person meets with a warm welcome, and is regarded with 

 special pride (as was the case with Agassiz), elsewhere he is 

 looked upon with jealousy, especially among those best able 

 to weis;h the merits of American science. He thinks that it 

 is only among the less well-informed Americans that the 

 qualities of the American leaders in scientific research are 

 undervalued, and this merely because short-comings are im- 

 agined which have no real existence. He remarks that the 

 Americans who are best able to judge know that the elab- 

 orateness of European scientific training is less effective than 

 their own more practical system ; and they consider it unfair 

 that the claims of their best men should be overlooked in fa- 

 vor of strangers. 13 A, August 1, 1874, 124. 



SALE OF DR. TROOST's CABINET OF MINERALS AND AN- 

 TIQUITIES. 



The offer for sale of the celebrated cabinet of minerals and 

 antiquities belonging to Dr. Troost, of Nashville, Tennessee, 



was some time ago announced. We now learn that this 



