388 - NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
Acalephæ, by Mr. Alexander Agassiz, has been printed and distributed. 
The third number will contain Professor Agassiz’s Report on the Co 
ls hay n 
ists, abroad and at home, for study and identification, many of which 
were sent from the Brazilian Expedition, though u unfortunately lost. 
The practice of scattering among naturalists the material for study, 
system now pursued by nearly all museums, public and private, 
f 
e study of science. The benefits are not local, but are shared by all, 
and not in one country alone, but throughout the scientific world. 
Thus, a large museum carried on in the interests of the highest edu- 
cation, must do much towards uniting all men in interpreting the 
marvels ists creation. 3 
y in this country the value of maintaining large museums 1S 
“ace a, We cannot afford to stint any of our educational insti- 
tutions. We cannot have too many ita schools, or too many 
museums, and money applied to their endowment will surely tend to 
enrich the nation, as well as advance good Siig and the broadest 
culture 
THE AMERI EE JOURNAL AND QAZETTE. aia and published 
monthly, by Samuel Wagner, Washington, D. C. 8vo, $2 a year. 
With the July number this i important journal begins a new volume, 
and in an improved dress. It has been steadily gaining in interest 
and that the growing interest in so remunerative a branch of agricul- 
ture as bee-keeping il enable it to be a success. 
NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
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BOTANY. 
New COLUMBINE, AND A New Ox-sye Darsy.— 02 
the 15th of May, 1866, I found on the heights west of the Hudson, and 
opposite the city of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., a cluster of wild Columbine 
s variety, “but never before one in which 
