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taken. The result of his labors is satisfactory. His work, in fullness of 
detail, leaves little to desire, and he appears always solicitous to avoid 
the charge of partizanship in awarding to rival parties what he judges to 
their respective shares of merit, in cases of contested claims. As a 
erary production, it is to be regretted that the author did not submit 
his manuscripts to the revision of some judicious literary friend—thus 
avoiding certain faults of style of too frequent occurrence. But these 
are minor faults and can be easily pardoned where there is so much to 
raise, 
5. Bail’s Drawing System: Taz Human Heap, by Lovis Ban, 
(graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, in Munich). New 
Carter, 1859. 8vo, pp. 427.—S 
Journal will recall with pleasure the selections from foreign scientific lit- 
‘auperism ; the House of Refuge; and other institutions of public 
% charity, which amid all the complaints of profligacy in her public ad- 
eae have shed a peculiar honor on the active benevolence of 
= the City of New York. 
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_ Places—illustrating his courses by numerous experiments, and a costl 
apparatus procured at his own expense is was long before the era 
of popular lectures, a iscom, with the senior Editor of this 
. Griscom was an eminently good man ; a member of the Society 
of Friends ; a devout Christain believer, and without bigotry. His mild 
and gentle nature delighted in the most catho! iberality, and many of 
armest friends were members of other Christian sects. e 
Fecently been called wu commemorate several eminent scientific 
= numbered with the dead. We now add the name of Griscom—a name 
cherished long and warmly by intimate social and scientific relations. 
Our early anittinries and friends in science are now few in number, and 
Sur duties are soon to pass into younger and we hope better hands— 
