Book Notices. — 455 
with a map, and full illustrations of the characteristic fossils of the several 
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rock formations; also the claborate report of hide : itney, bg 
an ohare sectional map eras the location of the mines, &e. Mr. t., J 
specimen of the Sade of fossils which we have seen is rey cred- 
itably executed in the best lithographic style. 
7. Eighty Years Progress of the United. States, showing the various 
ehewtiole of Industry and Education, dc. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 457 and 455, 
New York, L. Stebbins, 51 John st. Com mpiled “by omer Literary 
men.” —This compendium of national statistics forms a valuable hand- 
book of Paes e to which all who iene ss it will have fre ent occasion 
to authorities and original sources of information. But taken as it is, it 
supplies a great desideratum, and its pains-taking Editor, Mr. Stebbins, 
deserves our thanks for so v saiinabls a contribution to our resources in this 
o_o of statistics. 
“ang American Cyclopedia, vol. xiii, PARR—RED. Appleton & 
w York, 1861.—This volume fully sustains the good character of 
its siedaiaias’ in the series. — Photography, by Dr. J. W. Draper, is a very 
interesting and instructive article. Of scientific articles, Parthenogenesis, 
Perpetual gion “ igubo gts rons oka and Pneumatics, are fur- 
Series to a close. 
9. Personal.—Prof. A. D. Bache, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Coast 
Survey of the U. S., was chosen Foreign Associate of the French Academy 
mn os Section of Geography and Nayigation in place of Mr. W. Scoresby, 
deceased. 
BiTvary,—Dr. Ext Ives died in New Haven, Oct, 8, 1861, at the age of eighty- 
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two years. ves was among the earliest of our botanists, and devoted himself 
an en- 
vated Pears, 
Successful medical practitioner, and 
honored by all w 
Our list of publications received, and Proceedings of Scientific Socie- 
ties, is unavoidably crowded over to an ensuing Number. 
