ddress in Commemoration of J. W. Bailey. 157 
Contributions to Knowledge, except one in the first volume of 
the Trausactions of the Association of Geologists and Natural- 
ists, which embodied his previous papers on the Infusoria of the 
__-United States, with additions, and which gave him at once a 
high position as a scientific naturalist. - 
is Microscopical Collection will constitute his most splendid 
Monument. The slides, of which there are five hundred and’ 
ilty, are arranged in boxes in the form of octavos, of whi 
Mere are twenty-four volumes. More than three thousand ob- 
ects, fixed upon slides, are catalogued and noted with reference 
to Bailey’s Indicator, thus enabling any one readily to find with 
certainty the identical specimens described by him. - There are 
also very many other slides not included in the regular collee- 
_ tion. Being objects either described by himself or given to him 
by other describers, this collection must always possess the high- 
a, enna and must be our ultimate reference in all cases of 
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: The collection of Algz is equally complete and authentic. It 
Consists of thirty-two portfolios, containing about 4,500 speci- 
mens; and it may safely be said that few collections in the world 
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Performed in addition to the full daties of a professorship, - 3 
Nimwae 2 military precision and punctuality. He has won for 
u ‘ ihe oh, a place by the side of the most eminent microscopists 
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by the unassisted eye. Are they not equally the handi- : 
