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unfinished, The reconstruction of the building, exclusive of 
this room, will cost $150,000, and if to this be added the sum pre- 
a viously expended on the erection of the building, we owe have a 
total of $475,000, of which, at least, $400,000 might have been 
opal to the principal, or expended. in the promotion of know- 
The superintendence of the work is still under the direction of 
ys the architect, Mr. Adolf Cluss, and every part of the construction 
: and all the plans none been critically examined and discussed by 
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advices just received in London leave no doubt as to his safety. 
OBITUARY. 
r. Joun Ruaeies Cortine.—Dr. Cotting died at Milledge- 
ville, & on the 18th of October. He was born in Acton, Mass., 
in 1784. The following Docs is from the 8 Recorder. 
_ His first fifty years were spent in Massachusetts ; his last thirty 
in the valley of the Oconee, in Georgia, at. Mille R 
colleges, he perfected his excellent education by several years o 
fessional iife 3 in Amherst College, in ig schools and in the 
iste Dr. Cotting mss ego Sot and was first neteled in Au- 
ta, Ga., where he was aged by some liberal, enlightened 
Agricultural survey of Burke and Richland counties. This pgs ate 
tant work, the first of its kind in Georgia, was done in the yea 
: i gs were deposited in the Medical Col- 
3 Sot ,000 to the. service, gee piece Gilmer a appointe ed 
_ Years, when owing to financial trouble the legislature withdrew — 
the propriation, and the survey ceased. During its progress, 
Dr. ¢ ng collected in the eastern counties of the state, a 
the extreme er eons “ponnty, Decatur, a rich herbarium | 
; to the office of state geologist. The work was carried on fortwo 
