396 Domestie Intelligence. 
65. M. Brongniart’s Researches on Organized Remains.— 
We have already had occasion to call the attention of Amer- 
ican Geologists to the researches of M. Brongniart on fossil 
remains. We regard it as the cause of the scientific world, 
and therefore renew our request that specimens may be for- 
warded to M. Brongniart from all our secondary regions. 
Those that have been already transmitted have been respect- 
fully acknowledged, by him and we shall, by and by, reap 
is about publishing a memoir on fossil vegetables : we have 
before us some of the plates illustrating this memoir, and 
recognize in them fossil vegetables, similar (if we do not 
mistake) to those which accompany the coal formation on 
the Muskingum. They are elegantly executed in the Litho- 
graphic mode. 
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iI. Domestic. 
1. Dr. Hosack’s donation of Minerals. 
Princeton, Dec. 6th, 1821. 
Dear Sir, 
Knowing as I do that your love of natural science disposes 
you to take a deep interest in every exertion which is made 
to increase the facilities in our country for acquiring mine- 
ralogical knowledge, it is with great pleasure I inform you 
that Dr. David Hosack of New-York, with his characteris- 
tic liberality, has presented to the college of New-Jersey a 
very handsome collection of minerals. It consists of about 
one thousand specimens, several of which are rare and 
splendid. They are arranged according to the order ob- 
served in Professor Cleaveland’s admirable treatise, and 
are exhibited agreeably tothe French method, in very con- 
venient cases, erected by the Doctor at his own expense, 10 
one of the public rooms of our college. To render this 
donation immediately useful, it was accompanied by a collec- 
tion of the most important works on Baernlony: : 
The brilliant cabinet of minerals, which Col. Gibbs, with 
a spirit which does him unspeakable honour, has deposited 
Bae aml eee 
