62 NOTES. 
sity, though no criterion for the future, is $50,000, for the ar- 
rangement of specimens alone ; $25,000 will be needed for other 
purposes. 
The state of Massachusetts has been generous to Professor 
Agassiz, as Director of what we may safely say, is, on the whole 
the best conducted, and in many respects most liberal museum in 
the world. The time is ripe for the immediate development of a 
museum, that shall in all its appointments be a model for all 
others, and we trust the liberal minded citizens of a state which 
owes so much to science for its wealth and the ‘development of its 
intellect, will not let this golden opportunity pass. 
Millions have been voted for developing the material resources 
of the state. Shall not a museum, which has already done so 
much in elevating the standard of. scientific learning in our 
country, have its thousands? From motives of simple economy 
in money, and as one of the preventives against ignorance, and 
crime, the result of inherited ignorance, we would as editors of a 
scientific journal heartily urge liberal legislation to foster science 
and education. It is by the endowment of the higher institutions 
of learning, and our museums and laboratories, that popular edu- 
cation will be hereafter best advanced in our country. : 
Capt. C. H. Hall has his vessel on the stocks at Washington in 
preparation for her work among the ice, and is carefully select- 
ing the proper persons to assist in his expedition. The scientific 
assistants have not yet been definitely settled upon. 
We have had inquiries about “a work on Ferns, by Miss Paine,” 
recently, or soon to. be, published. Can any of our readers give 
us information about it? 
Maj. Gen. Cunning- 
- He is, according to 
Tribner’s American and Oriental Literary Record, perhaps the 
only one thoroughly competent for the post. 
A large number of the animals at the 
Jardin @ Acclimation have been sold and 
A quarto work on the Texas cattle 
ricultural Department, is just out, 
“The History of Zoology,” 
part printed. 
Jardin des Plantes and 
slaughtered for food. 
disease prepared by the Ag- 
that is, printed, not published. 
by Victor Carus, is already in great 
