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scription of a new genus, and of three hun- 

 dred and twenty new species. Since the 

 publication of that work, the same gentle- 

 man has detected, in the neighbourhood of 

 his residence at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 

 and in specimens sent him by correspond- 

 ents from different parts of the country, 

 others sufficient to increase the list to two 

 thousand species. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Has Zoology, or the history of animals, 

 been cultivated in the United States with 

 the same success as botany, or geology and 

 mineralogy ? The answer must be in the 

 negative. Its progress has been impeded 

 by the operation of the same causes which 

 have affected the other branches; but in 

 addition to these, it has had to contend 

 against the unjust views which have been 

 taken of its relative importance, and to a 

 want of concert in nomenclature and syste- 

 matic arrangement between the laborers in 

 the different subdivisions of this science. 

 The fact, that until the last few years 

 it has been neglected in England, affords 

 another mortifying, but sufficiently obvious 



