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opportunities of obtaining select specimens of foreign minerals, and 

 especially those of the rich raining districts of Germany, Hungary, 

 &c., and we have no doubt that the opportunity now presented of 

 obtaining, in this country, so valuable a cabinet of minerals, is one 

 that will rarely, perhaps never, occur again. — Ed. 



On inquiry we are informed, that this collection contains all the 

 species, sub-species, and varieties ; and the minerals of the appen- 

 dix of Mr. Cleaveland's edition of 1822, with the exception of 

 about thirty — but it has a greater number than that, of minerals not 

 mentioned by Cleaveland. A great number of them are described. 

 The minerals of this cabinet were selected by men well acquainted 

 with the science, and who had extensive opportunities for selecting ; 

 on this account, the collection may justly claim a pre-eminence. 

 There are perhaps, between forty and fifty geological specimens, 

 but such as belong in the same time to mineralogy, as marl contain- 

 ing petrifactions. 



29. Botanical specimens wanted. — Prof Rafinesque of Phila- 

 delphia, having begun to publish a Supplemental Flora of North 

 America, wishes to procure all the plants omitted by former authors. 

 He will be much obliged to any botanists who will furnish him with 

 their discoveries, or plants omitted by Michaux, Pursh, Nuttall, 

 Bigelow, Torrey, Beck, Eaton, De Candolle, Elliott, k,c. and other 

 botanists. 



He wants, also, to procure the doubtful plants of these writers ; 

 although he has collected already, during twenty years, from 1815 

 to 1835, many thousand species, and more than five hundred new 

 species : he is chiefly in want of southern plants, and he ofl^ers to 

 buy from collectors or botanists, plants of Carolina, Georgia, Flori- 

 da, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas, at 

 a fair rate, according to value, either labelled or unlabelled. 



If a botanist is inclined to visit those states as a collector, 'be will 

 Insure him the sale of plants to the amount of ^100. Apply to him 

 for terms. Other plants or books given in exchange when desired. 



30. Fossil Flora of North America. — Prof. Rafinesque has 

 been collecting, for a long while, materials for a Fossil Flora of 

 North America. He has already one hundred and twenty five spe- 

 cies, well ascertained and named, collected from Missouri to the At- 



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