a and Comparative Anatomy, as will meet the wants | 
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result of many years’ work of Mr. Townend Glover, to whose t 
requited labors in practical entomology we have previously ¢ 
attention. : 
He has a beautifully illustrated manuscript work on the in 
injurious to cotton and other crops, which thus far Congress 
been asked in vain to:publish. - To the great value of the mu 
Prof. Hagen of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Camb 
bears the following testimony. ‘I find no notice in the NATURA 
1st of the Museum of the Agricultural Department in Wash 
ton, D. C., the admirable work of Mr. T. Glover. I was 
astonished at going through this valuable collection. The 
upon which Mr. Glover works is his own, and the arrange 
his own devising. When fish, fruits, etc., cannot be pre 
excellent casts beautifully colored are made and exhibited. 
illustrating injurious and beneficial insects and their transito 
tions, drawn, engraved and colored with his own hand, are mi 
ed in the halls,so that if any one wants to know about the 
injuring certain crops or plants, he can obtain very complete ™ 
mation. I know not which the more to admire, the ext 
really vast plan of the institution, and the elegant comple 
the design, or the modesty of the learned naturalist who 
ceived and done it all entirely without aid, in the agricultural 
ests of this great country ; meanwhilé supported by means 1 
ridiculously small, compared with the results. I confess th 
Agricultural Museum in Washington has no superior in the 
and even no rival either in England, France or Germany- 
Tur authorities of Brown University are beginning t0 
museum of natural history. During the last year several a 
large cases were placed in Rhode Island Hall, and betw® 
and four hundred specimens of birds and animals were 20° 
_ previous collection. A large collection of the implements 
ican Indians was also added, together with several small 
valuable collections of coins, both ancient and modem 
a pense incurred by these improvements was met by @ fe 
the College, interested in this department. Arrangements: 
been made for adding to the Cabinet an extremely hiv 
tion of birds, numbering about forty-five hundred; and 
specimens in Mammalogy, Herpetology, Ichthyology» 
