STATE ZOOLOGIST; 21fi 



When it became known that sea' amber, ami other 



b, i n being robbed would attract pith-balls and 

 ight Bubdtances, the disoovery was looked upon as onim- 

 I ni and trifling, and no one thought the knowledge capable 

 oi made available for any practical purpose; yet from 



beginning the science of electricity lias been d< vel- 

 oped, which, in its practical applications in the arts, no one in 

 the present age would venture to set a limit. Prom the appli- 

 cation of tlic principles of this - we arc indebted for the 

 ised fa ah ties in the art of printing, by the process of elec- 

 trotypiug, meuts in the art of gilding, as well aa for 

 that wonder ol the age, the magnetic telegraph, that l»rin. 



twork of wires the im.st remote places into almost instan- 



n. 



died trill ng experiments of philosophers, c nsidered 



by many as beneath the attention of intelligent beings, have 



;:it forth fruit abundantly, the influence of which on the 



world's progress can hardly be estimated 



Tl as, in i very department of knowledge, practical results 

 antly presenting themselves as the inevitable i 



as in the purely investigations of 



An accurate scientific knowledg< 



nd m tie of existence, of tl.'' various animal 

 forms ' with in . day pursuits, 



li as their varied reii % to the v< ami inorganic 



. i> iiidiepi usable if we would derive | 

 tical benefit I. i oi the animal 



d bappi; • 



of incalculable him t-> p 



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