NOTES. 
Governor HorrMman has approved the act, recently passed by the 
New York Legislature, authorizing the Board of Commissioners 
of the Department of Public Parks in the city of New York ‘‘ to 
contract, erect and maintain, in and upon that portion of the Cen- 
tral Park formerly known as Manhattan square, or any other 
public park, square or place in said city, a suitable fireproof build- 
ing, for the purpose of establishing therein, under suitable rules 
and regulations to be prescribed by the said Board from time to 
time, a Museum and Gallery of Art,” and also a suitable fireproof 
building for a “ Museum of Natural History, at an aggregate cost 
not exceeding a sum of which the annual interest, at the rate of 
interest at which a fund or stock shall be issued, is thirty-five 
thousand dollars for each of said buildings,” and adding that “it 
shall be the duty of and lawful for the Comptroller of the city of 
New York to create and issue, in the manner in this act provided, 
such additional amounts of a public fund or stock, to be denomi- 
nated the “ Museums of Art and Natural History Stock,” as shall 
be necessary to provide the money required for erecting said 
buildings, to an amount not exceeding the aforesaid limitations.” 
Capt. Hall will leave for the Arctic Regions in the steamer Peri- 
winkle, which will probably be rechristened the Polaris, about the 
first of June or as much earlier as he can get away. He will be 
well fitted and provisioned with every thing which can be devised 
for carrying a large amount of nutriment in a small space. One 
of the boilers of the vessel which uses steam and sails indif- 
ferently, is being fitted to burn animal oil or blubber. He will be 
accompanied by Dr. Emil Bessels, well known as the naturalist 
of the last Spitzbergen Expedition, and the author of several valu- 
able papers on the development of articulate animals, as natural- 
ist. Morton, formerly of Kane’s expedition, and others well 
acquainted with the Arctic Regions will accompany the Captain 
in his search for the North Pole. The Secretary of the Navy and 
other officials have done their best toward forwarding the objects 
of the Expedition, and as far as can be foreseen it will possess 
all the necessary elements of success. 
(256) 
Ae ns N RS 
ides 
Fire: 
ee ee eae 
ERS 
2 Sat ae ee ees i 
Pe a aig me ea) ae a OD Ogee eee SST ga Pe ee ae ee ee a en e 
aE EO A AETA E 
eee eA TA 
