36 
shut up in packing cases, is now pretty generally 
adm ted, rice arise two questions : : Whither shall | 
all the 
| ipn offered to the Chance 
| quer y the me pmorialists, 
thei en will dou 
they go wsh 
ful to he pube on the one band, — to the student 
of Natura on the other 
these questions it will be seen 
e not touche a. © 
r last year's v 
HE formation of a new Briti 
th rtance where the space 
ould they ave 
s 
rmining upon 
ci But altho ugh they 
dion : 
At be aer Nor, w 
resumed to | 
e organisation | 
he land — 
oyal roris ema at Kensin 
0 
und com 
the 
opinion is gaining Vets that no — near | 
ng t 
arid now that all 
ay lines are about to be — E A in 
Ns 
the future organisation of our Natural 
collections that the memorialists 2 
sively address 8 They suggest t 
It is to 
Histor 
ce 
Natur al History shou be UM Lem under distinct | 
h throu 
, in manner 7 
whieh h typical forms of Animals 
4 [endi 8 mould be so displaye or rhe oles a 
general iey dge of Science, a 
roduation to rm Student of Nase 
nical, ical. 
h pcm should be 
di for to which shoul 
attached * eee i o" of hac oks relating 
to Pun arem 
hich . nomic 3 
yc E im gress 
5. Botanical. 6. Zoo 
ia 
7. Zoological, br living an 
8. Botanical, 57 living a 
i ivi 1 already 
; the s th in 
ew. < Moteov Kihe 
at Kew, a nucleus of the 3d also 
n the — lace, and the 6th is actually 
towards ti on nsing- 
n ernment to adopt 
88 fis p 
8 museums to form anew, viz. :— 
ts there would be only | of the H 
a pee gi its e 
af E yes Pac 
t the Roc 
x^ 
the Pae i ugh 
Were that at posible Canada and B 
be bee the 
| Asia and Eur 
in July, 
was organised in 
of ining what 
| obj 
udson’s Ba 
situated at the Aer am 
Red River, t 
For the details 
memorial itself, “shih will be found at p. 8 
volum 
s once called the Hu 
siatic — s, it i t too 
pital, Victoria, Wenig the MeL 
Po. Ro 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
llor of the Ex en 
[January 15, 1850 
Lake of the Woods and Lake Superior, The 
btless refer bod the 
sh colon 
a is by 
British 
bi 
great highway between eastern for buff 
rope. 
this grand object in view an expedition 
1857, for the preliminary 
obstacles there 8 
be 88 Lake Superior and a hi 
pany called Fort Quy, 
of the Assinaboine "e | plai 
museums materials belonging to 
the icem * abound i in the British Museum 
and at — s that 
ical, No. 3, also exists, partly at Kew. 
in the eub. LA the Grea t Benthamian Herzum, 
thin the do of the British Museum 
at Kensington Gore or 
p of N. America, Ld for e 
EE 
N as surveyor 
ttlements, 
tracts of ga land beyond t 
landed at Fort Will 
in which to place un Zoological Museums, then | Rive 
wera 
ct ge scheme ded by th 
ahs we by the memorialists 
and 4, ZoorogICAL 3 
nsington—to be fo: 
Pi 
eint ifie. Ke E cpular and 
Xe. 8. BOTANICAL GARDEN; already formed at 
Such is a very condensed abridgement of the tive 
soa formed in the to find so me track which 
| 2n 
e already existin ing afford: 
ever of some short es 
een portag 
in t 
llows. Tt w. ia iret me 
h shou 
a ns Du 
Ape Was 
Lake Winipeg into the state of y dei 
— reader will place before him a good modern 
the 
a good nav tion for 
of considerable size, with T interru im 
from 
(If 
2 
Pi, 
xample as 
Lak 
vici: "s me S 
dr what the eg 
party v was able to disc 
‘Lhe result was satisfactory ; it was fo 
od n 7 be for 
Loving way; Lake 8 Superi 
; then, crossing it ‘by water, up the a 
then 
und g 
med mr 
8 
e W * Above 
| miles more remain to be surveyed, up to they 
i 
It is known that this western country ijj 
le sly pii "within the boundary of the T 
o that 
xtends along the Mackenzie "or three or 
imate barely toler 
orts at colonis 
Indeed t 
| of the co dne arry. 
| Lake pans for which v vey few pe 
country ca repar 
“At the Void ue He a Rev. 
unter,"saysM ND, “Isa 
H matoes ri 
| = 3 they had been n gathered before misi 
as engineer, an 
and their copious report is 
before us* They was 5 at— 
as to make a 
tion of fros 
way as we are accustomed 
| under similar cireumstan: 
ost, and 
* Report on 
the Red River Settlement, e by 
Assembly. Toronto. 
the Exploration of the m between, Lake Superior 
order of the Legisla- 
e gu — before it nipa N ma 
and — to the great | al 
bei 
he 7th October, 
m my departure 1 from — 2 I Unies Mig 
oth nts garde 
pi 
on Sean f wy Esq., 
ere produced, At the time w 
