174 Miscellanies. 



On the Dolia of the United States, by Prof. Green. 



Address before the Lyceum of Nat. Hist, of the Institute, by Dr. 

 T. R. Beck. 



Note respecting the Ranunculus lacustris, by Dr. Lewis C. Beck 

 and James G. Tracy, with a plate. 



Reclamation of salamanders in a letter to Baron Cuvier, by Jacob 

 Green. 



List of officers — history of the Institute, with an abstract of its 

 proceedings. 



The Institute appears from its transactions, of which the present is 

 No. 4 of Vol. I. to be in a flourishing state, and from its position and 

 the activity of its members, it cannot fail to aid the general cause of 

 knowledge. 



We have copied into the present number of this Journal the paper 

 of Prof. Eaton on the coal formation. 



15. American Annals of Education and Instruction, and Journal 

 of Literary Institutions, embracing a record of schools, colleges, and 

 lyceums ; conducted by William C. Woodbridge, assisted by several 

 friends of education. — The title of this Journal sufficiently indicates 

 its objects. The editor is well known to the public as the author of 

 a popular system of Geography. After residing for a number years 

 in various parts of Europe, and making himself intimately acquainted 

 with the different methods of instruction practised there, he has com- 

 menced the work before us, with the benevolent and patriotic design 

 of offering to his country the fruits of all his inquiries. 



He hopes still further to advance the cause of education by elici- 

 ting the sentiments of others engaged in the same pursuits, and he will 

 render a most acceptable service to the cause of education, should 

 he be the means of making known more generally the views of men 

 so well qualified, both by native originahty and acquired wisdom, to 

 interest and instruct the public as is the gentleman whose name we 

 are happy to meet with several times in the course of these two num- 

 bers. The title of the articles already published, will give our read- 

 ers a more particular view of the nature of the work. They are as 

 follows : Progress of Education in Germany and Switzerland — Bio- 

 graphical sketch of Fellenberg — Sketch of the Fellenberg Institution 

 at Hofwyl — Infant education — Review of the Report of the Manual 

 Labor Academy of Pennsylvania — Asylum for the blind — Methods 

 of teaching to read — Carstairian System of Penmanship — Literary 



