Miscellaneous Intelligence. 299 
course of time, the curatorships (to which should be attached the duty 
of delivering a certain number of lectures annually) may be endowed so 
for the corridors, and at the same time assist in the course 
which it should be the duty of every curator to deliver annually upon the 
7 
and general, and steps were taken to carry out, or at least to commence 
; the plan, Several meetings of the most distinguished 
a cnlightened citizens of Boston have been held, and liberal sums have 
ss q been promised. A general subscription has been undertaken, 
i ¢ certainty of success. Not only this, but the subject has already 
that brought before the Legislature, and there is strong ground to believe 
brik handsome appropriation will be made, from the moneys receiv 
in He State from the sale of the “Back Bay” lands. Governor Banks, 
so ohgungag Inessage, called attention, in general but emphatic terms, 
“.@ Value of the natural sciences, and has since shown a liberal dispo- 
The ‘ 
rv. to favor this particular measu Hon. Charles Hale, Speaker 
en ¢ f Representatives—and one of the most rising young 
m Massachusetts— also unders 0 a warm friend of the 
Sp Other leading persons in the government look upon it with 
sal and there seems little doubt that a majority of the Legislature will 
© same enlightened view. F. 
eet vations on the Genus Unio, together with descriptions of new 
% , their soft parts, and embryonic forms, in the sea Unionide. 
2 & 
. ited 
frous species are described and well figured. Dr. Lea ob- 
Mig ae he has found the Unio eylindricus Say, U. rubiginosus Lea, 
kind of . nla imbecilis Say, sensitive to light, as if possessing some 
the rgans, and that Prof. Haldeman had observed and pub- 
poing Same for the Unio radiatus. . Lea’s first publication on 
Mary, ] rt In the Proceedings Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia for Feb- 
. 
