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3. Credit to whom credit is due; extract from an Address before the 
American Institute, New York City, by Prof. A. D. Bacuz.—I wish I 
the 
wane of that great light of the French Academy, Arago, American sci- 
entists have had much to complain of, Since its final earthly eclipse oe 
our friends, “at the equinoxes and I will answer at the solstices.” I wrote 
s, Gould and others. 
Neither the method coincidences which he lauds, nor that of signalizing 
the transit of stars, which he considers of the highest merit, are new, but 
hed with his neglect 
vs ° . a 4 ith a 
an electricians in his work on electricity, he exclaimed wit 
ponchalance considered typical of the Academy, “ Must one know all 
anguages t ite k ” 
ea, Geogropicoad 1 — eries in Africa; by Rev. Mr. Livineston, (Let- 
ter dated “ River of the Bashukulompo, near its confluence with the - 
besi, latitude 15° 47', longitude 28° 50’ east, 20th December, 1855.) 
Cong. Jour., Sept. 26, 1856.—A little leisure obtained, together with a 
bountiful supply of pork for my party, enables me to commence an epis- 
tle to my Yankee brother, We number 115 in all, so = may wonder 
whether we have a Cincinnati in intertropical Africa. We got a hippo- 
