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tiful type, upon fine paper, and illustrated with a great variety 

 of superb engraviugs. Taken altogether, it is one of the 

 neatest specimens of the typographic art which we have ever 

 seen in this country, and fully equal to many of the costly 

 works which are issued from the London press. 



Art. III. Mdress delivered at the annual meeting of the 

 Boston JVatural History Society, Wednesday, Jllay 5, 184 1. 

 By J. E. Teschemacher. Pamphlet, Svo., pp. 46. 

 Boston, 1841. 



The Boston Society of Natural History is one of the 

 most flourishing of the kind in the country. It has published 

 a journal of its proceedings, already comprising three or four 

 voluines, and coiitaining, among other subjects, many valuable 

 contributions to the botany of New England. The Society 

 has a rich collection of shells, minerals, insects, zoological 

 and botanical specimens, and its hall is thrown open to the 

 public every Wednesday. The annual meeting was held in 

 May, at which time this interesting address was delivered, and 

 subsequently published at the particular request of the So- 

 ciety. Mr. Teschemacher is an ardent student of natm-al 

 history, and his address shows that he is familiar with all its 

 branches. The progress of geology, conchoiogy, entomol- 

 ogy ichthyology, botany, &c., are passed over in rapid re- 

 view, and the improvements and divisions which have been 

 made in the several branches, are given in a condensed and 

 concise manner. It possesses the merit of being highly de- 

 scriptive, without the technicalities which generally render 

 such addresses tedious to all except the student. Written 

 amid the care and labor of business, we cannot but wonder 

 that Mr. Teschemacher should have found time to have col- 

 lected so much interesting matter in so small space. 



Had we the room to spare, we would gladly make one ex- 

 tract, so happily does it answer the question so frequently 

 asked — Of what use is all this science? But we must refer 

 our readers to the address itself, assured that they will rise 



