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the borders of the glacier of Grindelwald ; in 

 short, all the usual accompaniments of the 

 glaciers are there, and one may follow the 

 " roches moutonnees " with the eye to a great 

 distance. 



Albany is the seat of government of the 

 State of New York. It has a medical school, 

 an agricultural society, a geological museum, 

 an anatomical museum, and a museum of natu- 

 ral history. The government has just com- 

 pleted the publication of a work, unique of its 

 kind, a natural history of the State in sixteen 

 volumes, quarto, with plates ; twenty-five hun- 

 dred copies have been printed, only five hun- 

 dred of which are for sale, the rest being dis- 

 tributed throughout the State. Four volumes 



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are devoted to geology and mining alone, the 

 others to zoology, botany, and agriculture. 

 Yes, twenty-five hundred copies of a work in 

 sixteen volumes, quarto, scattered throughout 

 the State of New York alone ! When I think 

 that I began my studies in natural history by 

 copying hundreds of pages from a Lamarck 

 which some one had lent me, and that to-day 

 there is a State in which the smallest farmer 

 may have access to a costly work, worth a li- 

 brary to him in itself, I bless the efforts of 

 those who devote themselves to public instruc- 



