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nient of the latter, he has been assisted by Dr. J. W. Webster, 

 lecturer on mineralogy and geology in Boston. 



18. C. S. Rajinesque, Esq. 

 We are requested to announce that a Journal of this gentle- 

 man's " Travels and Discoveries in the West, will be publish- 

 ed this year by Cramer and Spear of Pittsburg, and that the 

 results of his zoological and botanical labours consist in the dis- 

 covery of about 16 new genera, and 180 new species of plants ; 

 about 75 new genera, and 600 new species of animals, where- 

 of nearly 70 are new fishes, 20 new quadrupeds, 30 new rep- 

 tiles, 1 12 new shells, 250 new fossils, &:c." " He has inquired 

 how the deep valleys have been excavated, where lekes exist- 

 ed, where the old falls of the Ohio were, the extent and origin 

 of the coal region, &c." 



19. Medical College of Ohio. 

 Extract of a letter from Cincinnati, Jan. lOth, 1819. 

 The legislature of the state of Ohio have just established a 

 medical college in this city, and have by an unanimous vote 

 passed a law incorporating the Faculty. In the act, Dr. Sa- 

 muel Brown of Alabama is named as Professor of Anatomy, Dr. 

 Daniel Drake of Cincinnati, Professor of the Institutes and 

 Practice of Medicine, Dr. Coleman Regers, Professor of Sur- 

 gery, and Dr. Slack, Professor of Chemistry. The other Pro- 

 fessors are to be appointed by the Faculty, and it is believed 

 that Dr. Richardson of Lexington, Kentucky, will be called to 

 the Obstetrical chair. Very high expectations are entertained 

 of the importance of this institution in the west. 



20. JVotes on Ohio. 



Caleb Atwater, Esq. of Circleville, Ohio, has issued propo- 

 sals for publishing the above work, (mentioned in our last num- 

 ber) with a prospectus exhibiting its principal features. We 

 doubt not it will contain valuable information concerning a very 

 interesting portion of the United States, and every eflfort on the 

 part of men of intelligence and enlarged views, to make the 

 western and southwestern states better known, deserves, and it 

 is believed will receive, adequate support. 



