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animals, including a mammoth and a mastodon and the moulds 
and sketch models were destroyed. Mr. Hirron did this, said Mr. 
Hawkins, out of ignorance, just as he had a coat of white paint 
put on the skeleton of a whale which Mr. Perer Cooper had 
painted white. Mr. Hizron told the celebrated naturalist who 
had come from England to undertake the work that he should not 
bother himself with ‘dead animals,” that there was plenty to do 
among the living. This illustrates the policy of having such men 
48 Hinron at the head of one of the most important Departments 
of the City Government. When the skeletons were dug up again, 
by order of Col. STEBBINS, they were found broken in thousands 
of pieces. Prof. Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution when he 
heard of this piece of barbarism, would not believe it. “Why,” 
he exclaimed, “ I would have paid them a good price for it.” . Mr. 
Hinton however, preferred to destroy the work of the naturalist 
Which had cost the City at least twelve thousand dollars.” 
We copy the above from a slip cut by a friend from the 
“New York Times.” What good will ever come to science from 
the million of dollars it is proposed to spend on the new building 
fora Museum of Natural History in the Central Park so long as 
the citizens of N ew York allow vandals and ignoramuses to hold 
the Places that should be filled by men of culture and unques- 
tionable scientific standing? 
“We alluded some time since to the threatened destruction of 
Peak Services to science by the purchase of the site on which 
e Circle stands. lt is right also that the meed of praise should 
ected towards the attainment of this object, and who have 
o tlie own their sense of the value of the monument which is one 
eas glories of their county. We refer especially to the Rev. 
yan King, the vicar of the parish, Mr. Kemm, Mr. George 
Wilet and the Rev. Alfred Charles Smith, Hon. Secretary of the 
hor ~ure Archeological and Natural History Society. It is to be 
Ped that their example will stimulate similar zeal for the pres- 
“tion of monuments in other parts of the country.” — Nature. 
: Waen will Sir John Lubbock’s example be followed here? 
satin year our monuments of a former race are being destroyed 
it ho hand has yet been raised to save them. 
ag Raphael Pumpelly has been appointed State Geologist of 
~SSouri, as we are assured by a correspondent. 
