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and acknowledged merit, to aid him in his labours, while here, ia 

 London, Dr. Gray is obliged to be contented with two ! In the 

 Imperial Zoological Cabinet of Vienna also we believe that four 

 Naturalists are engaged in working out and naming the ento- 

 mological collections, while in this country, as has been already 

 stated, the whole of the series of Insects is committed to the charge 

 of one unassisted individual. Even in Copenhagen, as will be 

 seen by the list given above, the scientific staff is stronger than iu 

 our own much more extensive collection. Here also, we are in- 

 formed, a new building destined to contain the several collections 

 hitherto kept apart in different buildings, is now in rapid process 

 of construction, and when completed will serve, no doubt, to ex- 

 tend still more the well-deserved reputation of the learned Zoologists 

 of Denmark. 



We must now devote our remaining space to a few words con- 

 cerning what is going on on the other side of the Atlantic, where 

 the exhausting war lately brought to a termination, seems by no 

 means to have stopped the progress of Zoological Science. There 

 are three Zoological Museums in the United States, which claim 

 notice as contributing, or likely to contribute, materially towards the 

 general advanceof Zoology— the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 

 the Academy of Natural Science at Philadelphia, and the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology recently established by Professor Agassiz 

 in Harvard CoUege, Cambridge. As regards the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia, we have lately adverted to the loss sustained 

 by this Institution (which is the property of a private Society), by 

 the death of its munificent patron and former President, Dr. T. B. 

 W^ilson.* We trust, how^ever, that the well-known liberality of the 

 citizens of Philadelphia will quickly set at rest any apprehensions 

 that this event may have raised of any cessation in the good work 

 that the Academy has for so many years carried on for the benefit 

 of science — and that a sum will be raised sufficient to ensure the 

 preservation and proper arrangement of the noble collection belonging 

 to that Society. 



The Smithsonian Institution has, as is well know^n, a special 

 department devoted to Natural History, which, under the care of the 

 energetic Assistant- Secretary Professor S. P. Baird, has of late 

 years played a most important part in Zoological Science. Professor 



* Nat. Hist. Kev. 1864, p. 452. 



