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: to contribute to a foreign periodical, rather than those of the land. 
His lot and mission were here; and the response he has met with from 
the country is testimony, not simply to his science, but to the noble feel- 
ings of the man. On certain of his views men may differ; but as to 
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projected. The publishers have therefore issued the whole in two 
. Yolumes, Prof. Agassiz states in his Preface that in the third volume, 
- Way of specimens and information, mentions Mr. James E. Mills and 
t especially in microscopic dissections and drawings. He gives hig 
: ~ Mr. A, ] rtist, whose labors as draftsman 
Bee erated to his works now for twenty years. The beauty and 
of the plates fully justify the remark respecting Mr. Sonrel in the 
Preface—* The m he has attained in this department, and the ele- 
9 and accuracy of his lithographic representations, are unsurpassed, 
they are anywhere equalled.” 
AS we shall return to these volumes again, we here give only a list of 
; ere ey MS which they treat. ia 
to 
ely diverse geographical regions, and as widely diverse geological 
s—the permanency of types and the immutability of species,—the 
een plants and animals and the surrounding world,—em- 
