168 Miscellanies. 



We notice also, with pleasure, a valuable horticultural Repository, 

 published monthly in New York, and various occasional addresses, 

 containing interesting facts and details : that of Dr. J. W. Francis, 

 delivered in September, in New York, is a rich and elegant docu- 

 ment ; and that of Mr. G. W. Clinton, pronounced at Canandaigua, 

 in the preceding June, exhibits a vigor and spirit for improvement, 

 •creditalDle to the writer, and the fine region of western New York. 



Among the publications that commemorate the productions of our 

 great gardens, those of the Messrs. Prince, possess much interest 

 and value. 



39. Literary and scientific societies of Canada. — ^We have had 

 occasion, repeatedly, to notice the promising and already successful 

 efforts which are making to promote science in Canada. We under- 

 stand, from a correspondent at Kingston, that a second volume of 

 the Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 

 may be soon expected. 



The last report which we have seen of the Natural History Soci- 

 ety of Montreal, dated May 31, 1830, exhibits a sound and vigor- 

 ous growth of that institution, which is evidently under a wise and 

 libieral direction. 



We wish all success to our intelligent neighbors in their merito- 

 rious efforts, which it will be always a pleasure to promote in any 

 way in our power. 



30. Affinity of the Diallage family, in chemical consiitntion, with 

 augite. — Fr. Kohler has given {Poggendorff, Ann. XII. 101) the 

 results of a mineralogical and chemical examination of the species 

 Metalloidal Diallage, Bronzite and Hypersthene, from which he in- 

 fers their general identity widi augite ; to which species he refers 

 them, under the denomination of the Schiller spar family. — [Zeit- 

 schrift fur Miner alogie, Nro. 5. Mai. p. 386.) 



31. Collections of Insects.— M. J. L. Laporte, of Bordeaux, 

 in a letter to Dr. J. Porter, of Plainfield, Massachusetts, states, that 

 he is engaged in a work upon the insects of both Americas, and that 

 he is therefore anxious to receive insects of every species from all 

 parts of North and South America. He requests particularly that 

 the butterflies may be put up in paper triangles, that they may ar- 

 rive in the best state. He promises liberal returns in insects from 



