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scribers. that I have adopted a plan of keeping: the ge- 

 nora separate, so that one, two, or three numbers will 

 contain a con:p;e(e ))i- toi y of one genus of trees, as 

 pines, nut-bearers, maples ; so tf'.at diey will j^osses so 

 many complete and separate treatises, which will also 

 give the facility of procuring the particular genera 

 which they may desire. One number will be published 

 GYiiry monih, and be composed of six colouf^d plates, 

 with descriptions to each. The plates are engraved 

 from drawings by Messrs. Redoute and Bessa, emi- 

 nent painters in natural history. The best will be in 

 royal octavo, and printed on very fine paper. The 

 price of each number will be 13 francs and 50 centimes, 

 ( >f 2. 50. ) An edition in English will be published 

 i:i Philadelphia, accompanied '>y plates precisely sim lar 

 to the French edition, with this diiference only, that the 

 com'uon nanes of trees will be given iii place of the bo- 

 tanical ones." 



The editor is well acquainted with Mr. Michaux ; 

 has witnessed his assiduity in collecting information 

 from wojkmen in Philadel|)hia. an-l has no doi'bt of his 

 work proving eminently useful. I'he execution of the 

 plates will be in the highest style of elegance. Every 

 college and public school ought to possess a copy of 

 this work, and also of the superb work by the father 

 of Mr. Michaux, on the American oaks, which maj 

 be bought for the low price of i$ 10. But our semina- 

 ries of education unfortunately deem such knowledge 

 degrading, and set a value only on those branches of 

 learning, which are inapplicable to the common purpo> 

 ses of life, or to the business of the world, and w^:ich, 

 to nine tenths of those who gel a smattering of it, is 

 totally useless, and forgotten after they leave college or 

 school. Archives of useful Knoivledge. 



The Editor of the Agricultural Museum is authorized, 

 in a letter from the Editor of the Archives, to add, t:.at 

 iince the pubiicaiion of the preceding notice; the iirst 



