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duous collectors, renders the fact the more remarkable, that, in 

 the northern portion of the island, this delightful study should 

 have made so slight a progress. This may be in some manner 

 owing to the want of a proper elementary work, of a sufficiently 

 compendious nature, to guide the student through the intricacies 

 of a subject somewhat encumbered by an unsettled system of 

 nomenclature and arrangement. We are therefore happy to have 

 it in our power to announce that the first volume is in a forward 

 state of preparation, of a work entitled Entomologia Edinensis, 

 or a description and history of the Insects indigenous to the 

 neighbourhood of Edinburgh, by Mr James Wilson, F. R. S. E., 

 &c. and Mr James Duncan. This volume is intended to con- 

 tain the generic characters and specific descriptions of the cole- 

 opterous insects found in the district just named, combined with 

 a general history of their localities, economy, and metamor- 

 phoses. An introductory essay will present a general view of 

 the Class Insecta, — pointing out its distinctive attributes and 

 relations to the other great divisions of the animal kingdom, and 

 including an account of the anatomical structure, physiology, 

 geographical distribution, &c. of the extensive order, to a por- 

 tion of which the descriptive part of the forthcoming volume 

 exclusively relates. 



GEOLOGY. 



6. Heights of Mountains and Lakes in North America :-— 



Long's Peak Chippeweyan, or Rocky Mountains, ...15,000 feet. 



Mount Washington, N. Hampshire,* 6,234 



Mansfield Mountain, N. Peak, Vermont, 4,279 



Catskill Mountains, Round Top, N. York, 3,800 



Black Hills, Lat. 40. NW. of Missouri, 3,500 



Alleghany Mountains, in Virginia, 3,100 



Ozarc Mountains, west of Mississippi, 2,250 



Wisconsan Hills, S. of Lake Superior, 2,250 



Catskill Mountainhouse, N. York, 2,214 



Sources of streams tributary to Lakes Winnepec and 



Superior, 1,200 



Head waters of the Mississippi, 1,200 



Break Neck, near West Point Foundery, 1,187 



Rainy Lake, SE. of the Lake of the Woods, 1,100 



Tourn Mountain, Rammapoo, N. Jersey, I5O67 



* Tliis is the loftiest of the White Mountains. 



