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instruction in the classical languages, and all the branches that are 

 taught in the highest Eastern "institutions. It is organized under the 

 name of the Pacific University, at Tualatin, O. T. 



The State of Tennessee has ordered a geological survey of its ter- 

 ritory, and appointed to the work Prof. J. M. SafFord, of Cumberland 

 University, Tennessee. Prof. S. is well prepared for his duties, and 

 his final reports will beyond doubt prove both valuable and honorable 

 to the State and to Science. 



Dr. William Kitchell, of Newark, Secretary of the New Jersey 

 Natural History Society, has received the appointment of Superin- 

 tendent of the Geological Survey authorized by a recent act of the 

 Legislature of that State. Mr. Henry Wurtz has also received the 

 appointment of chemist and mineralogist to the survey. The work 

 has been entered upon and vigorously prosecuted during the past 

 season. 



The geological survey of Illinois, under Dr. Norwood, has revealed 

 numerous localities of marble of great beauty and value. Among 

 these is a variegated variety, suitable for any description of in-door 

 and ornamental work, as mantels, table-tops, &c. It is from Southern 

 Illinois, and will compare favorably with most of the imported marbles 

 used for such purposes. It resembles most nearly some varieties of 

 Egyptian marble. A beautiful Oolitic marble, from Hardin county, re- 

 ceives a fine polish, and appears to be harder and better able to stand 

 the effects of the weather, than a similar rock from St. Genevieve, 

 Missouri, which has been used to some extent in St. Louis. The 

 structure of this rock is as curious as the wrought samples are beau- 

 tiful. In Pike county a variety of marble conglomerate, resembling 

 the " Potomac " marble of which the pillars in the Capitol at Wash- 

 ington are constructed, also occurs abundantly. 



In the United States, great additions to the fossil botany of the 

 carboniferous formation have been made by Dr. Ne wherry, of Cleve- 

 land, Ohio. A severe loss to science in this department was sustained 

 in the death of Mr. Teschmacher, of Boston, who had done much 

 towards elucidating the question as to the character of the plants 

 comprising the mass of the anthracite and bituminous coals. 



A new work on American Geology, with full illustrations of the 

 characteristic American fossils, with an atlas and geological map of 

 the United States, has been commenced by that veteran in science, 

 Dr. Ebenezer Emmons, of Albany, N. Y. The first number only has 

 as yet been published. The work is to be exclusively American in 

 all its illustrations and descriptive fossils. This work merits, and 

 from the ability and known attainments of the author will doubtless 

 receive, the attention of all interested in geological progress. 



