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A box of Chinese curiosities. From Rev. Dr. Parker, Canton, 
China. This box was detained in N. ¥Y. Custom House, six mo’s. 
or it would have been sooner noticed. 
An Alligator in aleohol, from S. Carolina. W. T. Hatch, Esq. 
Several rare Cape Bulbs Gladiolus Ixia Sparaxis, and also seeds 
and flowers of several species of Zeranthemum Ammobum, &c. 
From Rev. George Champion, through Mrs. J. a Boston. 
A box of Fossils from Niagara. From Mr. 
Box of Bituminized Wood from me banks of i Mississippi. 
From Prof. Carpenter, Jackson College, La. 
Box of Fossils from Alabama. From Miss Shedden to Yale Nat. 
History Society. 
NEW EDITION OF DR. MANTELL’S WONDERS OF 
GEOLOGY. 
A full notice was given of this work in our Vol, xxxrv, p. 387, 
and we announced in Vol. xxxv, p. 384 that arrangements had been 
made with the author and his publishers, by which Mr. A. H. Maltby 
of New Haven would publish the new edition in this country as soon 
as it could cross the ocean, and that by the author’s approbation it 
would appear under the direction of Prof. Silliman, with introductory 
remarks by him; the proper type and illustrations to be identical 
pee ee 
with those of the London edition. "This work is now received in an — 
enlarged and improved edition: it has 10 plates and sections, of 
which six are colored, and nearly 100 additional engravings. While 
it is full and exact in science, it is without doubt the most attractive 
and interesting work on Geology which has ever been published. +t 
does not interfere with the excellent treatises of Bakewell, Lyell, 
Murchison, De la Beche, Daubeny and other eminent geologists; 
it occupies a peculiar niche of its own, and reflects both the image 
of geological nature and of the author’s own elegant and accom- — 
plished mind. Without any other than a friendly interest in these 
volumes, we cordially recommend them, as being equally instructiv? 
and delightful.— Eds. 
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