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To repair, as far as possible, the loss which the Lycenm has sustained, 
re of its members stand ready to give large private collections in the 
ral departments of natural history, whenever — ficient and safe 
building shall be secured for their reception. For this, they look to the 
own ‘liberality and: public spirit of the wealthy ies of New York, 
in. 
Gifts of Mr. George Peabody to Science.—Mr. George Peabody has 
recently given $150,000 to Harvard Callens for the establishment of a 
Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology, and the same amount 
to Yale College for a — of Natural History 
5. British Association —The meeting of the British siercns8 for the 
vege year was held * Nottingham during the week commencing Aug. 
Mr. Groves being the — Dundee was secseliial as the 
ane of meeting for the — yea 
ntz.—D ntz a purchased the extensive collection of 
é 
ils and minerals rataaien to the Comptoir Minéralogi d Gé- 
elogique of the la r is Se Paris, and is about adding 
them to — own great establishment for the sale of specimens at Bonn 
on the Rhin 
OBITUARY. 
Mr. Epmunp Btunt, first sence upon the United States Coast Sur- 
vey, died on the 2d of September last. Mr. Blunt was a son of 
M. a. author a the American Coast Pilot, and was born in New- 
of George’ and Nantucket. In 1824 he sarvayed the entrance of New 
York harbor from bes es to Fire Island. In 1825 and 1826 he run a 
Island, iading with a base “of verificatio on near Providence, . 
also triangulated Delaware Bay from Philadelphia to the capes ; also the 
Chesapeake from its head to the capes; and the Hudson river to a point 
above Troy. In 1855 and 1856 he furnished the points to determine 
the seed line of New York harbor, which has done so much for its 
preservatio 
efore ‘ha while on the Coast Survey, his attention was directed to the 
inferiority of the lights in the American light-houses, and he was mainly 
instrumental in introducing the Fresnel system into ‘our country ; a sys- 
tem which has contributed so much to the safety of font se? ‘Mr. 
unt was a mechanic of great inventive power. The dividi ne 
built from his plan and under his direction, is an evi cikelig of his cecal. 
