NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 619 
Mexico, and travelling at a pace which modern days have seen nothing 
“Throwing out, as it were, by explosion, the shattered fragments of 
[Aztec] str aia civilization to the savage nations of the globe." 
r. Catlin, with reason, protests against the discredit 
thrown on Pn state M regarding the Mandan religious ceremonies, by 
Mr. Vemm and memorializes s Congress for simple justice, by order- 
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dently plundered from Catlin. We would suggest that Mr. Catlin has 
nothing to fear from Schooleraft's heterogeneous and illy digested vol- 
umes, which do no credit to the Congress that ordered their publication. 
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY or New HawrsHIRE.* — By his annual report we 
should judge that Professor Hitchcock was pushing on the work of the 
survey with diligence and success. Much attention has been paid to that 
indispensable means of geological research, a good t UB map, 
and Mr. G. L. Vose, one of the assistants, has **taken a large number of 
observations for the purpose of nd the exact position of as many of 
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part of Coós County, and besides gives an account of his winter's occu- 
pation of the summit of Mount Moosilauke. 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND AnmTs.f— This long established 
journal — ehh has from its commencement been the leading vehicle for 
the original papers of American scientists — will be continued after the 
close of the present year, As A MONTHLY JOURNAL. This increased fre- 
quency of publication will meet a wish often expressed by authors, for a 
more rapid interchange of views, and an earlier knowledge of the pro- 
gress of research. We hope that the friends and patrons of science will 
aid in promoting its wider circulation. 
ual I tence of - State of New Hampshire. 
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