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delicate and perishable kinds. The specimens, I 

 am told, will be carefully preserved, with as much 

 attention to neatness in displaying them as circum- 

 stances will admit. The filiform kinds will be dis- 

 played on white paper. Dr. Harvey's first collec- 

 tions will be made in Western Australia, at various 

 points along the coast, from Swan River to King 

 George's Sound. Three or four months will be 

 devoted to this locality. He will then proceed to 

 Sydney and Van Diemen's Lartd ; and it is his 

 present intention to visit the coast of Chili. — 



N ANNETTE. 



Can Fishes See ? — I heard an argument the 

 other day, Mr. Editor, touching the vision of fish. 

 One party strongly insisted upon it that fishes 

 were more accessible to sound than to light ; whilst 

 the other maintained the direct contrary. Which 

 was right? — William C, Eton. 



[Fishes are no doubt moderately possessed of the 

 power of hearing ; but their sight is wonderfully 

 acute, and it far surpasses any other instinctive 

 gift. The eyes of fishes are much more perfectly 

 formed than their other organs of sense, and we 

 are much better acquainted with their action. 

 They even observe a very minute object when the 

 water is dark and the surface ruffled. But, on a 

 clear day, river-fishes can see a shadow passing 

 along the water, and are alarmed by it. Their eyes 

 are admirably formed, both for protection and for 

 readiness in the use. The surface is in general 

 flat, and the common integument passes over the 

 eye, without any duplicature or eyelid, except in 

 a very few peculiar species ; and thus the most 

 violent agitation of the water produces much less 

 effect upon the eye of fish than a gentle breeze does 

 upon the human eye. Such an eye could not, in- 

 deed, exist exposed to the air, or to any drying ele- 

 ment ; and hence in all eyes that are to be used in 

 the air, there are either moveable eyelids, as in 

 the mammalia ; or nictitating membranes, as in 

 birds ; by the application of which, the coat of the 

 eye is kept moist and transparent. But the eye of 

 a fish from the nature of its element, and the 

 adaptation of the structure to that element, is 

 always ready ; and in all states of the water, in 

 which the muscular action of the fish can keep its 

 place, the eye can see the smallest substance. 

 Turbid water, or even rolling pebbles, can do little 

 injury to an eye so flat. But in proportion as the 

 external surface of the eye is flat, the crystalline 

 lens is convex. It is, indeed, nearly a perfect 

 sphere ; and thus the eye has great magnifying 

 power ; although it appears to have considerable 

 range of focal length. The eye of a fish is one of 

 the most curious varieties of that most interesting 

 of organs.] 



How can I Cure the Toothache ? — If you can 

 help a sufferer, do ; pray do ! — C, Long Acre. 



[A mixture of two parts of the liquid ammonia 

 of commerce with one of some simple tincture, is 

 recommended as a remedy for toothache, so often 

 uncontrollable. A picee of lint is dipped into this 

 mixture, and then introduced into the carious tooth, 

 when the nerve is immediately cauterised, and 

 pain stopped. It is stated to be eminently suc- 

 cessful, and in some cases is supposed to act by 

 neutralising an acid product in the decaying 

 tooth.] 



THE SONG OF JUNE. 



BY ELIZA COOK. 



Oh, come with me, whoever ye be, 



Come from the palace, and come from the cot ; 

 The strong and the hale — the poor and the pale — 



Ah, sad is the spirit that follows me not ! 



Old December lighted his pyre, 



And beckoned ye in to the altar blaze ; 



He hung up his misseltoe over the fire, 



And pressed soft lips upon Christmas days. 



Ye welcomed him with his eyes so dim, 

 But I know ye have more love for me, 



When I wander about, and whistle you out, 

 With my blackbird pipers in every tree. 



Oh, come from the town, and let us go down 

 To the rivulet's mossy and osiered brink ; 



'Tis pleasant to note the lily queen float, 



The gadfly skim, and the dappled kine drink. 



Oh, let us away where the ring-doves play, 



By the skirts of the wood in the peaceful shade ; 



And there we can count the squirrels that mount, 

 And the flocks that browse on the distant glade. 



And if we should stay till the farewell of day, 

 Its parting shall be with such lingering smile, 



That the western light, as it greeteth the night, 

 Will be caught by the eastern ray peeping the 

 while. 



Little ones come, with your chattering hum, 

 And the bee and the bird will be jealous full 

 soon ; 

 For no music is heard like the murmuring word 

 Of a child, as it treads 'mid the flowers of 

 June. 



Ye who are born to be weary and worn 



With labor or sorrow, with passion or pain, — 



Come out for an hour, there's balm in my bower, 

 To lighten and burnish your tear-rusted chain. 



Oh, come with me, wherever you be, 



And beauty and love on your spirits shall fall ; 

 The rich and the hale, the poor and the pale, 



Foe Lady June scatters hee joys for 



ALL ! 



LOVE OF CHILDREN. 



It is a false and mistaken notion altogether, that 

 men of great mind and intense thought are easily 

 wearied or annoyed by the presence of children. 

 The man who is wearied with children, must 

 always be childish himself in mind ; but alas ! not 

 young in heart. He must be light, superficial, 

 though perhaps inquiring, and intelligent; but 

 neither gentle in spirit, nor fresh in feeling. Such 

 men must always soon become wearied with chil- 

 dren ; for very great similarity of thought and of 

 mind — the paradox is but seeming — is naturally 

 wearisome in another : while, on the contrary, 

 similarity of feeling and of heart is that bond which 

 binds our affections together. Where both simi- 

 larities are combined, we may be most happy in 

 the society of our counterpart ; but where the link 

 between the hearts is wanting, there will always 

 be great tediousness in great similarity. 



