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very fully of the remarkable topography of the State. We trust that 
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the geological survey and its publications will soon resumed under 
Professor Safford. There is no one in the country better fitted for the work. 
14. A Catalogue of the Paleozoic Fossils of North America; by B.F. 
Saumarp, M.D. Part I, Echinodermata. St. Louis, 1866.—Our notice of 
this valuable work is unavoidably deferred. 
15. Professor Oppel’s collection of Jurassic Fossils of Hurope and Great 
Britain.—By the recent death of Albert Oppel, Professor of Geology and 
Paleontology in the University of Munich, (of typhoid fever, at the age 
of 34 years, on the 23d of December last), it has become necessary to 
his family to sell his very large collection of fossils; all his little fortune 
having been spent on his education and his various geological journeys. 
We learn from Mr. Louis Semann of Paris (6 Rue de Méziéres), who 
speaks highly of the collection, that it is offered for-10,000 Rhenish flo- 
rins—4000 to 5000 dollars, and that it is well worth this sum. 
Ill. BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
1, Natural History Transactions and Journals, considered by the 
dent that we do good service to botanists and zoologists generally in 
directing their attention to a discourse of such practical interest. The 
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and Art; but these have now, for the most part, been distributed to 
@s. 
n the great centers of learning the division of labor has not 
stopped here, Moral and political sciences have almost universally 
formed either a distinct section of ‘science, or an independent branch of 
learning between science and literature. Mathematical and Pbysical 
even included in the general title of Naturkunde, Naturwissenschaften oF 
Sciences Naturelles, have in other cases been quite separated. Geology 
