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mineralogical, and anatomical museums, numerous laboratories, a 
magnificent collection of scientific books in the University Library, 
and an excellent botanic garden ; but the Professors require assistants, 
and the collections require curators. We sympathize with the Cam- 
bridge University Natural Science Society in its attempts to arouse 
the University to a sense of its shortcomings, which place it m the 
rear of other similar noble educational establishments ; and we hope 
that, ere long, the attention which is thus called to these wants may 
fulfil the object which they have in view, and that their laudable 
endeavours may be crowned with complete success. 
XI. SCIENCE IN ASIA. 
Gruat were the advantages conferred on science by the foundation of 
the Asiatic Society of Bengal. It has given a start to much scientific 
investigation, and seems to promise much in the future. It is on the 
point of conferring an immense benefit on society at large in Calcutta by 
placing its extensive Museum in the hands of the Government, while 
it gives valuable assistance to individual collectors by forming a means 
of communication between zoologists in all parts of India. This last 
object it is intended to carry out according to a plan proposed by Mr. 
C. Horne, by means of lists of all naturalists, numismatists, and others 
who wish to enrol themselves as desirous of exchanging their duplicate 
specimens. It is not intended to confine these lists to members of the 
Society, but to admit all who are willing to joi. Other scientific 
bodies are coming into existence, amongst which we may mention the 
Dalhousie Institute, which has had a site afforded it by the Govern- 
ment, on which a suitable building is to be erected as soon as an 
opportunity is offered for the Governor-General to lay the foundation 
stone. At Allahabad, moreover, a museum and a library are on the 
point of being established. A circular has been issued by Dr. Cun- 
ningham, the curator and secretary of the future institution, to all the 
Government officials to collect materials under the six following 
classes :— 
. Specimens illustrative of antiquity, such as old coins, MSS., 
arms, &c. ; 
. Raw materials. 
. Agricultural produce. (Is this not included under the pre- 
ceding head ?) 
. Manufactured goods. 
. Specimens illustrative of natural history. 
. Models of machinery. 
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To the library the curator hopes to attract the legacies of officers-and 
Government servants departing for Europe, expectations that probably 
may be realized if we consider the enormous expense of carriage which 
would be incurred in bringing home books. A site has not as yet been 
