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19. Mr. C. U. Shepard 1 s private school of Mineralogy and other 

 Branches of Natural History. — In our last No. (Vol. 25 pa. 431) 

 we mentioned this important private undertaking. We are happy to 

 add, that several gentlemen, accidentally associated, from remote 

 states and a still more remote foreign country, are now availing them- 

 selves of the important advantages which Mr. Shepard is able to 

 afford them. We refer to our previous notice of this subject, as ci- 

 ted above ; and with pleasure add, that the experiment is in very 

 successful progress, and that not a doubt can be entertained of the 

 entire success of this school, provided a sufficient number of pupils 

 should attend^ to afford a fair compensation to the highly qualified 

 gentleman whom (with no other interest than that of a kindly feeling 

 towards science and towards this its meritorious devotee,) we art 

 proud to recommend, to the American public as entirely worthy of 

 that confidence which he would be as slow to ask as he will be prompt 

 to deserve. It is our earnest wish that this high advantage may be 

 added to the other means of scientific instruction enjoyed in our 

 country* We have the satisfaction to add that, since our last No, 

 a small fund, contributed by the society of the Alumni of Yale Col- 

 lege, has been made, in part, available to afford without charge to the 

 pupils a course of lectures on concbology which in the cabinet of 

 Yale College, Mr. Shepard, is now engaged in delivering, with the 

 fine illustrations afforded by his beautiful collection of shells. 



This course will be followed by one on Botany, by Mr. Shepard, 

 for which, as there is no fund to support it, a small fee is paid. A 

 public course of Mineralogy succeeded by an extended one on Geolo- 

 gy is given, every spring and summer, in the Cabinet of Yale Col- 

 lege ; and this, for the present, completes the list of courses of instruc- 

 tion here in Natural History. We hope however to see Zoology added 

 at a future day. There are full courses on all the branches of the- 

 oretical, and experimental science ; as well as in medicine, law and di- 

 vinity, in addition to the instruction by recitations and drilling in the 

 class-rooms. 



20 % Ligneous Stems of American Coalfields desired. — We take 

 the liberty of inviting the attention of our scientific friends and cor- 

 respondents to the interesting researches, now going on, in the hands 

 of H. T. M. Witham, Esq. of Edinburgh, and also of Lartington, 

 Yorkshire. Of that gentleman's discoveries we gave a notice in this 

 Journal, Vol. 25, pa. 108 j he is still prosecuting them with ardor 



