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good works, and after death remain useful to humanity. By his wi 
gave his whole estate to the endowment of four scholarships for the 
Mr. Emerson belonged to that rare class of nen, who perpetuate their 
ill by 
2nd of April last, at Newport, Rhode Island, in his 76th year. He had 
been eminently skilful in surgery and the treatment of disease, but quit- 
ted the practice of his profession about twenty years since. He was a lib- 
gifts than in his bequests. During his later years his gifts amount to 
four hundred thousand dollars, of which the Boston Natural History 
4 hi 
Society had a share 
ralists of North America and the West Indies, together with their 
special departments of science, and other useful information. e 
pusponrion of this work is to be continued quarterly until completed. 
The next number will contain the names of foreign naturalists, with 
their addresses and special branches of study, so far as they can be as 
certained. In the part already printed the names have been arrange 
alphabetically for greater convenience, but in future numbers it 18 pro 
posed to arrange those of each country according to their special de- 
partments. : 
The utility and convenience of a work of this kind must be obvious 
the task, be rapidly and successfully completed, and thus supply @ want 
that has long been felt. A. Be 
2. The Social Science Review: a Quarterly Journal of Pa: olitical 
Economy and Statistics; Auexanprr Detmar and Simon Srers, SC 
o. 1, January, 1865. 96 pp. 8vo. New York.—The sub- 
_ 3. The Preparation and Mounting of Microscopic Objects ; by 
Davizs. 144 pp., 12mo. New York: Wm. Wood & Co., 61 ¥ 
street—In accordance with the author’s aim, as expressed in his Pre- 
this little manual supplies a want long felt, and supplies it well, 
