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DEFERRED ARTICLES. 



tion. Mr. Conrad, it seems, did not merely send us such specimens, as 

 he supposed would not add much to the beauty of his own cabinet, or 

 duplicates, but very generously gave us all he had. Other honorary 

 members, gentlemen from Washington, have also sent liberal donations 

 through the hands of our energetic and persevering President, Rev. Dr. 

 Morris, who manifests so deep an interest in the prosperity of our so- 

 ciety. 



Certain it is, that if contributions continue to flow in as they have 

 for the last month or two, there will soon be no room to receive them. 

 We cannot, therefore, be too energetic in our efforts to procure a more 

 capacious and commodious place of deposit. We need a Linncean Hall 

 — we must have it. 



But I must not neglect, at the same time, to notice the commendable 

 zeal of many of our active members during the last vacation. Whilst 

 they Avere enjoying the social pleasures of "Sweet home," they did not 

 forget the interests of the Society. They exerted themselves in pro- 

 curing subscribers for the Journal, and every one brought back some- 

 thing rare or curious to replenish our museum. 



Since the commencement of this session, almost the entire aspect of 

 our museum has been changed, suitable blinds have been procured for 

 the windows, additional and beautiful cases have been made for the min- 

 erals, all the cases have been handsomely painted, the walls have been 

 decorated with the diplomas of the College and of the literary Societies, 

 and with other pictures and portraits of distinguished men; and a row 

 of cases, filled with stuffed birds and other natural curiosities, has been 

 ranged through the centre of the hall. It cannot fail to interest every 

 visitor, not entirely destitute of all taste for the beautiful, the curious or 

 the scientific. I would advise the members of this Association to re- 

 sort thither as often as possible, and linger amid those wonders of na- 

 ture and of art, and they will rarely fail to have their curiosity excited, 

 and their minds expanded. 



Deferred Articles. Several articles, among them one upon the 

 "Linnean Hall," and "Illustrations of Phonography," have been crowd- 

 ed out by the unexpected length of one or two others. We have sev- 

 eral others on hand, which will appear so soon as we can find a corner 

 in which they will fit both as to quality and quantity. Anonymous 

 communications, containing statements of facts of which the Editors 

 have no knoM'Iedge, must, from the nature of the case, be declined. 



