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in numbers containing about one hundred and fifty pages each, and 
extending to sixteen numbers, which will make eight volumes of 
three hundred pages each, at $3 a volume. ‘The cost of the ori- 
ginal work to subscribers in this country will be about’ $187; of 
the translation, (which is of course without the plates,) about $24. 
Speaking of the French edition, the translator says: “‘'The high 
price is of course dependent on the matchless plates, but independent 
of these it remains a chef d’euvre: The descriptions are simple, 
accurate, and exceedingly perfect. ‘The student is able to distin- 
. guish at once the object of his research ; and however delightful it — 
may be to possess the illustrations he can do without them.” We 
trust the publisher and the translator may both be gratified, and 
Conchological science advanced, by a list of subscribers to this im- 
portant work sufficiently extensive to warrant the undertaking. The 
first number contains the genera Buccinum, (of which one hundred 
and one species are described,) Dolium, Tornatella, Pyramidella, 
Thracia, and Harpa. The mechanical execution of the work is 
very superior, and worthy of the reputation of the city from which 
it emanates. 
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Morse’s Electro-Magnetic Telegraph.—W hile a contest is wa- 
ging in several countries of Europe—in England, Scotland, France 
and Germany, for the discovery and invention of the Electric Tele- 
graph, it may not be amiss to state, that America also claims to be 
an independent discoverer and claimant for priority in the invention. 
The dates, the names of the inventors, and other circumstances will 
doubtless ere long be published, and then the world can judge be- 
tween the conflicting parties. Inthe mean time it is well ascer- 
tained, that Prof. Morse, of the New York City University, con- 
ceived and planned, five years ago, an electric Telegraph, while on 
his passage home from France, and immediately on his landing, he 
commenced the machinery. Early last spring, in April, the gene- 
ral features of his plan were very ,extensively published in the 
newspapers, and very lately, in August, we learn that several tele- 
graphs on the basis of electricity are in various stages of progress 
in Europe. 
The distinguishing features of Prof. Morse’s telegraph are a Re- 
gister, which permanently records in characters easily legible the 
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