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the question was negatived in the House, and the Government defeated by 
the unusually large majority of 92. 
Faunal Collections . — Professor Agassiz, in a report to the Senate and 
House of Representatives, urges the importance of special district collec- 
tions to facilitate the study of the species, and their geographical distribu- 
tion. These collections, he says, bring distinctly before the eye the character 
of the inhabitants of different parts of the world in their natural combina- 
tions, and that in a far more impressive manner than could possibly be 
attained by a mere nominative enumeration of species. 
Death of Schrceder Van der Kolk . — This eminent physiologist, Professor of 
Medicine in the University of Utrecht, expired on May 1st. He was highly 
esteemed in Holland, and a member of several illustrious orders of knight- 
hood. A letter, describing the event, says of him : “ Utrecht has thereby 
lost one of its most estimable citizens, the University one of her ornaments, 
society one of her greatest benefactor’s, science one of her most devoted 
cultivators, his numerous household a loving father, their mainstay and 
their hope ! ” 
