288 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Institution shall consist of works on science and the arts, especially 
such as relate to the ordinary business of life, and to the various me- 
chanical and other improvements and discoveries which may be made.” 
Moreover, as between Mr. Tappan’s general plan, then before the Sen- 
ate, which provided for the appointment of a staff of salaried profes- 
sors, and for an institution mo@eled.on the plan of the Imperial Jardin 
des Plantes, menageries and all,.t¢ be supported on the small income 
of Smithson’s bequest, and’a planjcontemplating mainly a library, it is 
not surprising that a person of she sound practical judgment should 
have preferred the latter. © ~~ 
Perhaps it is worth noticing,,finally, that the several extracts from 
Mr. Pearce’s remarks on thi dsio aSSgiven in Mr. Meacham’s Re- 
port (inclusive of three lines, not put. under quotation marks) actually 
comprised his whole speech, and indeed more words than the full report 
in the Congressional Globe contains. : 
2. Introduction of Bombyx Cynthia into Europe.—The introduc- 
tion of this Silkworm into Europe, which is apparently attributed to 
Prof. Milne Edwards, in the January number last, took place as fol- 
