MISCELLANEOUS. 



FROM THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW-YORK STATE LIBRARY. 



The Annual Reports of the persons who were engaged in the Geological 

 Survey of the State for the years 1837, 8, 9, 40 and 41 (complete), 

 with an accompanying atlas of* engravings. 



FROM S. R. ANDRES, OF CHAMBLY, CANADA EAST. 



A sheet of the First Paper ever made from the plant G^ia'phalium poly- 

 cephalum, commonly called Life-everlasting. 



The sheet is covered with printed certificates of manufacturers and 

 others, and with notices and opinions of the press. The following notice 

 is from the New-York Albion of September 16, 1854: 



" We were shown a specimen of paper a few days since, manufactured 

 from a weed which grows spontaneously all over the Northern States, and 

 known generally by the name of White-top. Though possessed of some 

 woody fibre, it still becomes a perfect pulp under the ordinary bleaching 

 operation. Paper-makers state that a fine article of smooth, strong, beautiful 

 paper can be manufactured from it about ten per cent discount on paper 

 made from rags. The adhesive qualities of the shrub are so great that no 

 animal matter need be used in manufacturing ordinary printing paper, and 

 it also makes a good surface without sizing. A patent has been secured to 

 the inventor ; and he proposes to erect, at his residence in Canada East, a 

 large manufactory to be supplied wholly with this material." 



FROM BARNEY HUMPHREY, OF ALBANY. 



Brazil Nuts, with the seed-vessel in which they grew. 



The common brazil nut is the seed of the Berthollatica excelsa of 

 Humboldt and Bonpland. 



