380 Intelligence and Miscellanies. 
rich in crystalline forms; and, with few exceptions, furnish- 
ed its late proprietor. with the numerous varieties of crystals, 
which are figured in the last edition of his mineralogy, as 
well as the plates accompanying his papers on the oxide of 
tin, red oxide of copper, &c. published in the Transactions 
of the Geological Society. 
“Of British, and more especially of Cornish, minerals, the 
cabinet contains a large number of rare and valuable spe- 
cimens; amongst which may be particularly enumerated the 
fluates of lime, the native and red oxide of copper, the ar- 
seniates and phosphates of copper, the oxide of tin, and ma- 
ny others; it contains, likewise, many very valuable foreign 
specimens—as a reference to the catalogue will show. 
“The collection is now offered to the public, just as it was 
left at the decease of its late proprietor; and, together with 
iderable erystallographical cabinet, will be sold entire.” 
The contents of this uncommonly fine and rare cabinet 
are contained, as we perceive by the catalogue, in one hun- 
dred drawers. The specimens referred to and figured in the 
authors excellent work ineralogy, have numbers attach- 
ed tothem corresponding with the figures. Such a cabinet, 
having such a relation to one of the best standard works on 
the science of which it treats, will doubtless claim the atten- 
tion of scientific institutions and amateurs of natural history. 
. Canada.—We are informed, that under the direction 
of Col. Bouchette, of Quebec, so well known as the author 
of a splendid geographical and statistical work and map, 
ments of the colony, preceded by a general map of the Brit- 
ish North American provinces, 
This work is to be entirely of a public nature, and so cal- 
culated, from the scale of its construction, and the mode of 
its engraving, as to admit of future correction and ameliora- 
tion. e growth of a new country is naturally rapid, and 
the map, which to-day portrays it, with all possible detail, 
must, in ten years hence, be deficient of that information 
which might then be sought for. With a view to this object, 
refore, has the plan of the proposed topographical maps 
been formed: a plan which will, at once, be Sound compre- 
