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The plates will be the same in the translation as in the original 
German publication. The translation of the text will receive the 
author’s latest corrections and additions, several pages of which have 
already arrived. | : 
As our object (says Dr. Troost) in offering this translation with 
the original plates, is not gain, but the promotion of science, and to 
aid oir own students in the study of Organic Remains, the price will 
be about the same as that paid in Germany. . 
This work will be published in folio, with pica type, on good large 
medium paper, in numbers, each containing from 100 to 110 pages, 
with 28 lithographic plates, and an explanatory text, at $8 per numi- 
ber, payable on delivery: there will be four Numbers. 
12. Necrology.—Diep at Paris, Feb. 6, 1833, Pisrre AnpRe 
LatreILe, a zoologist of great celebrity, and one of the Professors 
in the Museum of Nat. Hist., at the Jardin des Plantes. He was 
born at Brives, department of Correze, in 1762, and from his youth 
devoted himself to the.study of Natural History. His labors have 
been chiefly directed to Entomology, in which science he has, for 
many years, had no superior. Cuvier, who entrusted to him the ex- 
ecution of that part of his Regne Animal, which relates to the Crus- 
tacea, Arachnides and Insecta, said of him that he had studied in- 
‘sects more profoundly than any man in Europe. Latreille’s publi- 
cations are numerous, and of the highest authority. The earliest of 
which we have any account, (Précts des Caractéres Génériques des 
Insectes, 8vo.) was published in 1796. At the time of his death, he 
was engaged in the publication of his Cours d’Entomologie, the first 
volume of which®ppeared in the autumn of 1831. 
13. Mineralogical School at New Haven.—it having been sug- 
gested that the materials, in cabinets, models and instruments, con- 
nected with Yale College, render this place peculiarly fit for the 
exact study of Mineralogy, Mr. Cuaries U. Sneparp, the present 
Lecturer on Natural History in the college, offers to afford private 
instruction to all persons who wish to obtain a knowledge of this sci- 
e will teach it, by lessons and recitations, as a branch o 
Natural History ; and, where it is desired, will instruct in the appli- 
cations of other sciences to the productions of the mineral kingdom ; 
and also in the applications of mineralogy to mines, metallurgy, and 
other practical arts connected with mineralogy and geology. 
Admission may also be obtained to the lectures on the various 
branches of Physical Science which are given in Yale College, and 
to its libraries. 
We beg leave to add, on our own responsibility, and without con- 
sulting Mr. Shepard, that he is eminently qualified for the under- 
taking named above. Being a very accurate mineralogist and 
