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believed, not only unrivalled in this country, but unsurpassed in 
Europe. The scientific departments have a list of twenty-four 
instructors, and the material resources which they afford have 
cost in the aggregate over a million and a half of dollars. There 
are six museums in the University: the Museum of Comparative 
Zoology, the Botanical Museum, the Museum of Comparative 
Anatomy, Museum of Morbid Anatomy, the Museum of Mineral- 
ogy and that of Ethnology. These collections are unsurpassed 
by those of any educational institution in this country, and 
taken together they furnish an efficient basis for the acquisi- 
tion of the wide ranging knowledge on which a scientific career 
must be based. The opportunities for contact and intercourse in 
scientific societies are excellent. There is a working society of 
natural history in the University, and the Boston Society of Nat- 
ural History, one of the largest and most efficient of the American 
institutions of this nature, is also open to all students of the 
science. — N. S. S i 
Tae Hasster Exrenitios :— We arrived here the 11th of April 
and all well. We left Montevideo Feb. 28th, and after spending 
several days very profitably in Gulf Matias we steamed south 
with fair weather rounding Cape Virgin on the 13th of March 
and anchoring the first night after in the Straits of Magellan. 
Lateness in the season obliged us to put off the anticipated tip — 
to Falkland Islands. We started from Possession Bay, our 
anchorage, the day after, stopping at Elizabeth and Santa Magdi- 
lena Islands and arrived March 16th at Sandy Point, which iar 
only settled place on the Straits and contains a population 
about one thousand. Leaving these on the 19th (Mar-) = : 
steamed on, anchoring every night in some good harbor, passing F 
Cape Froward, our most southern point, on the 20th and en 
the entrance to Smyth Channel on the 27th when we turn 
and left the Straits of Magellan. Our trip through was # 
"interesting and charming one to us all, and many valuable ge% : 
Our zoologic® 
logical observations were made by Prof. Agassiz. 
collections were ‘very satisfactory excepting the 
owing to the steep rocky shores and abundance of kelp 
our using to advantage our well fitted seines and we 
` successful as we anticipated; the short stay there also 
fishes W i t 
collecting, but.as a whole the time spent there PH 
and enabled us to reap much scientific information. 
prevenia 
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