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his private cabinet; 6, (1835) the valuable collection of Gillet de 
sper consisting of 4000 specimens, was fa Piper 7, (1886) the 
School of Mines at St. Petersburg presented a very ‘choice collec: 
tion of Russian Minerals; 8, the “celebrated pot th of 8000 speci- 
mens, formed by the bbé Hai iy was purchased in, England of the 
Duke of Buckingham and added to the museum; 9, 1855) a splen- 
did collection of Russian minerals which in 1853 had been presented 
by the Emperor Nicholas to the Institute of France, and which em- 
braced a aoe precious series of emeralds, topazes, malachites and na- 
about 300 specimens of fossils. The collection now contains 175,000 
specimens of rocks, without including detached organic fossils, of which 
the number exceeds 23,000 specimens, or trays oben containing nu- 
merous individuals. M. Hugard very well observes, ‘* Ces chiffres sont 
assez éloque enls pour montrer Vimportance de la collection de geologic 
actue 
When the traveller from the United States views the extent of this 
great and flourishing country has ae of the kind to show where- 
with to excite the pride and study of her ambitious and inyellignnt pe 
matte Botany AND Zoo.Locy. 
Synopsis a oalegg Glumacearum ; auctore E. G. STEUDEL. 
Suignr pas sh Imp. 8vo. 2 vols. in on ne. Pars hs Site as PP 
as we know. That he shanti co “Ale te ave thoroughly revise the char- 
acters and rectify the synonymy was not to be expected, nor is it de 
sirable that such a task should be athe by any botanist resident in 
a German provincial town, remote from all the great herbaria. 
who published the last Agrostographia and Cyperographia, possé 
: ter experience ; but his work did him little ered 
If Steudel had confined himself to compilation, he would have confer- 
red an unalloyed benefit. Unfortunately, he has described as new spe 
*s several hundreds of specimens, in his own and some Late hee 
: as ’ ‘o 
eae to science, therefore, this work is worse ! 
ographia ;—and that is saying a great deal. A, Ge 
