Scientific Intelligence. ait 
ment of the latter, he has been assisted by Dr. J. W. Webster, 
lecturer on mineralogy and geology in Boston. , 
18. C. S. Rafinesque, Esq. 
owe are requested to announce that a Journal of this gentle- 
man’s “* Travels and Discoveries in the West, will be publish- 
ed this year by Cramer and Spear of Pittsburgh, and that the 
results of his zoological and botanical labors consist in the dis- 
covery'of about 15 new genera, and 180 new species of plants ; 
about 75 new genera, and 600 new species of animals, where- 
_of nearly 70 are new fishes, 20 new quadrupeds, 30 new rep- 
tiles, 112 new shells, 250 new fossils, &c.” “ He has inquired 
how the deep valleys have been excavated, where lakes exist- 
ed, where the old falls of the Ohio were, the extent and origin 
of the coal region, &c.” i 
19. Medical College of Ohio. 
Extract of a letter from Cincinnati, Jan. 10th, 1819. 
' The legislature of the state of Ohio have just established a 
medical College in this city, and have by an unanimous vote 
passed a law incorporating the Faculty. In the act, Dr, Sam- 
uel Brown of Alabama is named as Professor of Anatomy, Dr. 
Daniel Drake of Cinciniati, Professor of the Institutes and Prac- 
tice of Medicine, Dr. Coleman Rogers, Professor of Surgery, 
and Dr. Slack, Professor of Chemistry. The other Professors 
are to be appointed by the Faculty, and it is believed that Dr. 
Richardson of Lexington, Kentucky, will be called to the Ob- 
stetrical chair. Very high expectations are entertained of the 
importance of this institution in the west. 
20. Notes on Ohio. 
Caleb Atwater, Esq. of Circleville, Obio, has issued propo- 
sals for publishing the above work, (mentioned in our last num | 
ber) with a prospectus exhibiting its principal features. We 
doubt not it will contain valuable information concerning 4 very 
interesting portion of the United states, and every effort on the 
Part of men of intelligence and enlarged views, to make the 
western and southwestern states better known, deserves, and it 
8 believed will receive, adequate support. 
