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-4ne Vale College, will probably long remain unrivalled in this 
country. But smaller collections, if judiciously made and 
consisting of the most important articles, may be of \exten- 
sive utility. Many ofthe students of our college, by having 
the specimens of Dr. Hosack’s collection exhibited in illus- 
tration of the lectures they receive on mineralogy, have been 
led to enter into the subject with a zeal, which I hope will 
be productive of public benefit. 
Having requested of Dr. Hosack to give me.an account of 
the manner in which he obtained this collection, he has obli- 
gingly-returned an answer, from which I send you for pub- 
lication the subjoined. extract, in connexion with the state- 
vaments here made. This I do not only as a. merited ac- 
> knowledgment of the Doctor’s. liberality, but in hope that 
owhat he has done may serve as an example to. others... It 
would be of-incaleulable benefit to the interests of science 
camong us, if American gentlemen, while they visit foreign 
countries for their personal improvement, would remember 
the colleges—perhaps the places of their own education in 
the United States ; and make them such donations as their 
means and inclination should dictate. A principal reason 
why a liberal education with us is less valuable than in the 
Universities of Europe is, that’ we want the literary appara- 
ius which they possess. If, by the aid of a liberal patron- 
age, the libraries, philosophical apparatus and cabinets of 
natural history in our colleges, could be suitably extended, 
~-we should, I trust, be able before long to do full justice to 
our national Rattan: 
Yours Facerely 
se GREEN. 
2° Evtract of a letter atom Dr. Hosach to Prof Green. 
5. Buting: my residence at tlie University of Bdtitiurehe: in 
1792—3, my first attention was given to this department of 
aatural knowledge—in my tour through the north of Seot- 
jand, T afterwards ‘became more’ enamoured with this’ sci- 
ence by an opportunity which was afforded me of examining 
‘at Lawrence Kirk, the small but beautiful collection made 
oy Lord Gardenston.  In'the summer of 1793, in ecmendan, 
Von. IV......No. 2. a 
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