ae. - Bibliography. 
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The whole of the first two collections were purchased by Dr. T. B. 
Wilson, and, with his usual liberality, presented to the Academy. The 
names are attached to their donations throughout the catalogue. 
undetermined eggs in the collections of M. Des Murs and Mr. Gould, 
there are 197 species. ; 
5. Rural Essays; by A. J. Downtne, edited, with a memoir of the 
author, by Greoree Wittiam Curtis, and a letter to his friends by 
Freperixa Bremer. G. P. Putnam and Co.: New York, 1853. 558 
pp. 8vo.—The Rural Essays here issued originally appeared as editori- 
als in the Horticulturist. We are gratified to see them collected to- 
the great calamities of the last year. The memoir of Mr. Downing by 
Mr. Curtis is full of interest, and forms a most appropriate introduction 
to the volume. 
Sixty-Sixth Annual Report of the Regents of the University of 
the State of New York. 316 pp. 8vo. Albany, 1853.—Following the 
several valuable Meteorological Tables; Observations on the Weather, 
Auroras, Level of the Lakes, Productiveness, etc., of 1852, Flowering 
of Plants, &c., by Rev. Cuester Dewey; Table of the Periods when 
the Hudson River opened and closed at Albany ; Tables of the Fall of 
Rain in the State; on the Periods of Cold Weather during the last few 
years, and the connection of Earthquakes with Atmospheric Changes, 
y E. Merriam. 
7. Illustrated Record of the Industry of all Nations ; Nos. 1, 2; 
3,4. Edited by B. Strrrman, Jr. New York: G. P. Putnam and Co. 
Double Numbers of 18 pp. 4to, 25 cents.—This Illustrated Record, is 
The magazine before us, if ably conducted, would meet this watt. 
We judge however, from the paper on the mines and mineral resources 
