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ducts. One of the members is now in Florida for a similar 

 purpose; and as soon as the state of its funds will admit, it is 

 proposed to employ suitable persons in exploring the regions west 

 of the Mississippi. In connexion with this plan of elucidating 

 the natural productions of our country, the Lyceum has com- 

 menced the publication of its transactions, of which the second 

 volume is now in press, and will shortly appear. Of the charac- 

 ter of this work it would be unbecoming in us to speak ; the flat- 

 tering reception it has met with from the naturalists of Europe has 

 amply repaid for the labor and expense of publication. 



Note B—Page 36. 



It will be perceived that in our sketch of the department of bo- 

 tany, we have not mentioned those works which have already 

 been noticed in the North American Review, or in the Edinburgh 

 Journal of Science. 



Note E—Page 38. 



The assertion in the text will doubtless appear incredible to 

 those who are acquainted with the multiplied observations which 

 have been made upon the U.ferox, by some of our most accom- 

 plished naturalists. It is, nevertheless, founded on the following 

 remarks of Cuvier. " D'apres le temoignage de plusieurs voy- 

 ageurs tres-capables d' enjuger et meme d' apres le dessin publie 

 par M. Choris^ ysii tout lieu de croire que I'ours gris ou brun d' 

 Amerique dont on a fait tant de recits exageres, ne differe point 

 par 1' espece, de nos ours bruns d' Europe." Recherches sur les 

 Ossemens fossiles. Edit. 2d. Tome V. 2d partie p. 515. Paris^ 1824. 



Note F — Page 35. 



A ready access to the records of science renders it an easy task 

 to separate the known from the unknown, to ascertain when we 

 have opened a new path in science, or whether we are merely 



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