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work is a treasure of valuable information, and will be an enduring 
monument of the industry and learning of its author. re 
Dr. Harris was of modest and retiring habits, and so cautious to avoid 
error, so anxious for the whole truth, that his published writings fail to 
do justice to the full extent of his abilities. ‘ Yet,” to use the language 
of one who knew him well, “he had abundantly the self-respect which 
belongs to unselfish labors to advance the world in the knowledge of 
the works of its Maker, and to the uniform tenor of a pure, useful, 
Christian life.” : 
ll. Rev. Zadock Thompson, Professor of Natural History in the Uni- 
versity of Vermont, died at Burlington, January 19, 1856, aged 59. Mr. 
Thompson early interested himself in the study of the history and physi- 
cal features of the state of Vermont, and in 1824 published a Gazetteer 
of the State which toa large extent was made from information gathered 
latest of geological periods preceding man, Lake Champlain was a 
cruising ground for northern Cetaceans. All his investigations were 
pursued with great zeal, fidelity, and success, and at the same time 
Without ostentation. At the time of his death he was officially engaged 
0 making a survey of the State of Vermont, embracing its Physical 
Geography, Geology and Mineralogy, Botany and general Zoology. 
12. Theory of the Winds ; by Captain Cuartes Wixxss, U. S. N., 
(Read betes the American Asaigaci at Providence, Aug. 20, 1855), 
accompanied by a map of the World, showing the extent and direction 
of the Winds ; to which is added Sailing Directions for a voyage aroun 
the world. 116 pp., large 8vo. Philadelphia, 1856.—This volume, as 
the author states in his Introduction, forms part of his Re - 
for 
Port as a ‘sealed book,” like the other Reports of the Expedition, “ 
there are only one hundred copies ordered by the Government for the 
! the world!” He has therefore publi ion of the work 
for distribution. To give a just expositi would require 
2 review of many pages ; and ve reree 
ges; and we ha are verer te ree 
to the volume itself. Capt. Wilkes c the common doctrine that 
the rotation of the earth has any thing to do with the course or velocity 
of the Trade winds, and also observes that we have no satisfactory evi- 
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