Ai.EXAMiER CnossE, Esq., died, recently, at his residence, near Brid;^ewatcr, Enp;land, 

 aged more than seventy. This gentleman has long been a great lover of Kcientific 

 rL'soarcli, and will be rcniombered for the commotion he madeby claiming to be a modern 

 Prometheus, having, as he believed, created an insect by the aid of galvanism ! The 

 insect was an Acarus, or Mite, and has since been proved to have been hatched from an 

 egg deposited on the mineral submitted to the galvanic action. 



Iowa. — A correspondent of a AVcstern paper says : " For health, Iowa will compare 

 favorably with the Western States. But few marshes or little wet land is to bo found in 

 her territory, but what have sufficient drainage. Her streams have well-defined banks and 

 rapid currents. Water power for driving machinery is abundant. The coal field 

 embraces about one half the territory of the State. Having a position favorable to com- 

 merce, possessing a good climate, a good soil, easy of access, and well watered, a rapidly 

 increasing population of industrious, intelligent men, Iowa is destined at no late day to 

 occupy a permanent place among her sister States. Iler institutions of learning, her 

 thriving towns and bus^y cities, fields of waving grain and cattle upon a thousand hills^ 

 with a stirring population of near half a million, attest her present prosperity and future 

 greatness." 



Year Book of Agriculture. — Childs & Peterson, of Philadelphia, propose to publish 

 in October, of each year, an Annual of Agricultural Progress and Discovery, to be edited 

 by David A. Wells. We like this project, and we think the farmers of the country will 

 like it. For six years past, Mr. Wells has issued an ' Annual of Scientific Discovery,' 

 wliieh is admirably gotten up, and we doubt not he is capable of doing justice to this 

 new project. 



OxE Grain of Oats is declared In one of our exchanges to have produced the astonish- 

 ing number of 4,751 grains, all carefully counted! — See the Farmer's Friend. 



Nuttall's Svlva. — In a hasty glance at my copy of Nuttall, with which I am greatly 

 pleased, I see doubts expressed at page 44 of volume 3, whether the Rhodendron Maxi- 

 mum and Kalmia Latifolia are found in Maine. 



You may be assured that both grow here ; the latter near the line which divides this 

 town from Buxton ; the Rhododendron Maximum in the towns of Sanford in York 

 county, and Standish in Cumberland county, on the borders of Seliago lake ; whether in 

 other localities or not I cannot say. S. L. Goodall, Saco, Me. 



Fuchsias with White Corollas, are amongst the novelties of the day. The following 

 kinds have been announced for sale in England. 



Snowdrop, Mrs. Storey, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Empress Eugenie, Lady of the 

 Lake, Raffaelle, and Water Nymph. 



Query. — To Builders and OlJiers. — Are the cells of Anchorites, do you think, hermiti- 

 cally sealed ? — Punch. 



ox. — The Charming new Phlox Leptodachylon Californicum, the PTilox Speciostun 

 Pursh is in great favor at the English exhibitions. 



