304 President Bentham’s Address at the 
than one Curator in most of these branches. The Society is 
making an experiment upon a large scale, but evidently depends 
much upon gratuitous aid; time alone will show whether thats 
less precarious on the other side than on this side of the Atlantic. 
It is announced that the Boston Society’s Journal is to be dis- 
continued in the present form, but that the papers read will be 
published in quarto, under the new title of Memoirs of the So- 
ciety. 
The Harvard College at Cambridge contains a Museum of 
Comparative Zoology, which appears to be of great importance, 
and we understand that the very rich and valuable Herbarium 
of the distinguished Professor of Botany is also secured to the 
Botanic Garden of the University, but we know of no regular 
Transactions or Journals published in connection with the e 
 tablishment. 
thology by J. N. Lawrence and others, in Ichthyology by T. yee 
—— gy by J. L: Leconte, J. W. Greene, and others, a™ 
erous 
chyliologists. 
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munications ty aa there are only a few sho 
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of rare plants y H. W. Ravenel. 
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