354 Intelligence and Miscellames. 
ployment, procuring food, rearing or nursing its young, at- 
tacking or avoiding its enemies, enjoying its prey, or prepar- 
ments of Natural History. Many things there so well de- 
picted have often come under the observation of members 
of this Society, who are thus enabled to judge, from the un- 
questioned truth of these, of the fidelity of others which 
they have had no opportunity of personally verifying. We 
see contrasted the luxuriant vegetation of our Southern and 
Western States in the splendid Magnolias, Hibiscus, Gelsemt- 
num, and even in the grasses of those regions, with the rela- 
ted species, but of stinted growth, of our more northern 
climes. 
The work will require about fourteen years to complete it, 
and will then form a collection of figures such as will leave 
nothing to be wished for in American Ornithology. The 
letter press will be comprised in three 4tc. volumes ; two on 
the Land Birds, and the third on the Water Birds, now prepar- 
ing for publication, and which will be delivered to subscri- 
bers without additional expense. 
Although the costly nature of this work precludes its being 
in the possession of many individuals, yet it is hoped that 
all public institutions whose object is the encouragement of 
science or the liberal arts, may be induced to patronize it: 
and your committee beg leave to conclude with the recom- 
mendation, that if it be deemed advisable in the present sit- 
uation of the affairs of this society, its title be placed on the 
list of subscribers to Mr. Audubon’s work. 
2. Proceedings of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York. 
- Continued from page 209. 
January, 1829 —The President offered some observations 
‘on the doubtful fossil from the coal slate of Rhode Island, 
of which a cast was presented at the last meeting by Col. 
Totten. He considered it to be closely allied, if not identi- 
eal, with the Thrinar parviflora, a specimen of which he pre- 
sented from the coal pits of Somerset, (England.) A valu- 
. ‘able collection of fossil invertebrated animals from the 
