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The plates will be the same in the translation as in the original 

 German publication. The translation of the text will receive the 

 author's latest corrections and additions, several pages of which have 

 already arrived. 



As our object (says Dr. Troost) in offering this translation with 

 the original plates, is not gain, but the promotion of science, and to 

 aid our own students in the study of Organic Remains, the price will 

 be about the same as that paid in Germany. 



This work will be published in foho, with pica type, on good large 

 medium paper, in numbers, each containing from 100 to 110 pages, 

 with 28 lithographic plates, and an explanatory text, at $8 per num- 

 ber, payable on delivery: there will be four Numbers. 



12. Necrology. — Died at Paris, Feb. 6, 1833, Pierre Andre 

 Latreille, a zoologist of great celebrity, and one of the Professors 

 in the Museum of Nat. Hist., at the Jardin des Plantes. He was 

 born at Brives, department of Correze, in 1762, and from his youth 

 devoted himself to the study of Natural History. His labors have 

 been chiefly directed to Entomology, in which science he has, for 

 many years, had no superior. Cuvier, who entrusted to him the ex- 

 ecution of that part of his Regne Animal, which relates to the Crus- 

 tacea, Arachnides and Insecta, said of him that he had studied in- 

 sects more profoundly than any man in Europe. Latreille's publi- 

 cations are numerous, and of the highest authority. The earliest of 

 which we have any account, [Precis des Caracteres Generiques des 

 Insectes, Bvo.) was published in 1796. At the time of his death, he 

 was engaged in the publication of his Cours d'Entomologie, the first 

 volume of which appeared in the autumn of 1831. 



13. Mhieralogical School at New Haven. — It having been sug- 

 gested that the materials, in cabinets, models and instruments, con- 

 nected with Yale College, render this place peculiarly fit for the 

 exact study of Mineralogy, Mr. Charles U. Shepard, the present 

 Lecturer on Natural History in the college, offers to afford private 

 instruction to all persons who wish to obtain a knowledge of this sci- 

 ence. He will teach it, by lessons and recitations, as a branch of 

 Natural History ; and, where it is desired, will instruct in the appli- 

 cations of other sciences to the productions of the mineral kingdom ; 

 and also in the applications of mineralogy to mines, metallurgy, and 

 other practical arts connected with mineralogy and geology. 



Admission may also be obtained to the lectures on the various 

 branches of Physical Science which are given in Yale College, and 

 to its libraries. 



We beg leave to add, on our own responsibility, and without con- 

 sulting Mr. Shepard, that he is eminently qualified for the under- 

 taking named above. Being a very accurate mineralogist and 



