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the Report of the Council that they have now published their two 

 great serial works, Agassiz & Strickland's Zoological and Geological 

 Bibliography, and Alder & Hancock's beautiful work on the Naked 

 Marine Mollusca. The report announced that the next work to be 

 published is one by Prof. Allman, of Edinburgh, on the Fresh "Water 

 Polyps of Great Britain. Several other works were also announced 

 on various departments of British Natural History. Amongst them 

 are Prof. Williamson's British Foraminifera, Mr. Bowerbank's British 

 Sponges, and Mr. Black wall's British Spiders. 



The American Pharmaceutical Association held their third Annual 

 Meeting in Baltimore in September. During the three days in which 

 the Association was in session, much interesting matter was discussed, 

 in regard to the professions of the pharmaceutist and druggist, and 

 their relations to the physician and public in general. Committees 

 were appointed to report at the meeting to be held next year in Phila- 

 delphia, upon home adulterations, a standard for weights and measures, 

 statistics of pharmacy, scientific papers, and regulations in regard to 

 the sale of poisons. 



During the past summer the Dudley Observatory, at Albany, has 

 been formally inaugurated, and now takes its place as one of the best 

 endowed and furnished observatories in this country or Europe. The 

 Dudley Observatory originated in the munificence of Mrs. Dudley, of 

 Albany, lady of the late Charles E. Dudley, of that city, formerly 

 member of Congress. Her donations to its foundation and support 

 have been as follows : for its building, $12,000 ; instruments, $14,500 ; 

 endowment, $50,000 ; total, $76,500. In addition to the above, Mr. 

 Thomas W. Olcott, of Albany, has given $10,000; Hon. Erastus 

 Corning a superb astronomical clock and other instruments, while 

 liberal subscriptions have been also made by Mr. De "Witt, J. H. Rath- 

 bone, and others. Mr. Rathbone, also, in addition to the liberal sums 

 previously tendered by him, has recently given the amount requisite 

 for the purchase of the celebrated calculating engine of Mr. George 

 Scheutz, of Stockholm, which was on exhibition at the Palace of In- 

 dustry at Paris in 1855. In addition to the above, twelve gentlemen 

 of Albany have pledged themselves to defray the future expenses of 

 publishing Gould's Astronomical Journal. 



The Dudley Observatory is to be placed under the charge of Dr. B. 

 A. Gould, the well-known editor of the Astronomical Journal. 



From the annual report of the Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, 

 we learn that the Greenwich Observatory still maintains its pre-emi- 

 nence for meridional and lunar observations, and the magnetical and 

 meteorological observations are kept up with praiseworthy diligence. 

 The galvanic method of recording transits succeeds to perfection ; and 

 the distribution of the time signals to different parts of the king- 



