6 J. D. Dana—Results of the Earth's Contraction. 
n accordance with his wishes, his bryological books and his 
exceedingly rich and important collections and preparations of 
Mosses are to be consigned to the Gray Herbarium of Harvard 
niversity, with a view to their preservation and long-continued 
usefulness. The remainder of his botanical library, his choice 
microscopes, and other collections are bequeathed to the State 
Scientific and Agricultural College, just established at Colum- 
bus, and to the Starling Medical College, founded by his uncle, 
and of which he was himself the Senior Trustee. 
tary of the river which flows by the place where he was born, 
and where his remains now repose. A. GRAY. 
Art. II.—On some results of the Earth's Contraction from cool- 
ing; by JAMES D. Dana. Part II, The Condition of th 
Earth's Interior, and the connection of the facts with Mountain- 
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making. IL, Metamorphism. 
IL Tue ConpiITIoN OF THE EARTH’S INTERIOR. 
LM Saou difficulty than ever to the geologist. Professor 
of meeting this difficulty; yet, as he admits in his agar age 
remarks, the oscillations over the interior of a continent, an 
the fact of the greater movements on the borders of the larger 
ocean, were left by him unexplained. Yet these oscillations are 
* For Part I, on the Origin of Mountains, see vol, v, p. 347, 
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