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AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON AMERICAN GRAPE CULTURE AND WINE 
NG. By Peter B. Mead. Illustrated with nearly two hundred 
engravings, drawn from nature. New York, 1867. Harper & Broth- 
ers. 8vo 
This is a carefully prepared work, and we are informed by those 
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duced by a different vegetable parasite or fangus, which, if allowed to 
goon Hd mature growth, will spoil the wine, but which is prevented by 
heating. This heating does not injure the wine, bu ut enna according 
to M. Pasteur, has the effect of hastening its ri and 
forth in a few hours those fine qualities that have heretofore only 
been secured by long and careful keeping in goo 
AnnuaL REPORT oF THE Sigur OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARA- 
ZOOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE, TOGETHER WITH THE REPORT OF THE 
DIRECTOR, 1866. Boston, vog 8vo, pp. 37. 
fishes and at «Of fishes alone, no less than 50,000 specimens 
Were actually counted, representing over 2,200 species, the majority 
of which, say 2,000, are probably new to science and to our collections. 
This estimate does not include the smaller specimens, less than two 
inches in length, which also number many th thousands.” The reports of 
essrs. A. Agassiz, P. R. Uhler, J. G. Anthony, and N. 
made ir d 
-the assistants, Messrs 
8. — show that good progress had been in their 
prye senind number of the Illustrated Catalogue, The North American 
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