ORNITHOLOGY OF THE U. S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 
This is one of those unfortunate circumstances which preclude a 
work from being used or consulted generally, though at the same 
time it will be used to the annoyance and confusion of those who 
have no opportunity to consult it, or unravel what may be quoted 
from it. There are one or two parallel cases, and we almost wish 
that some recognized usage was adopted, in cases where the woik 
had been nearly destroyed before circulation, or was otherwise vir- 
tually inaccessible. The American work, as originally published, 
is in this condition ; but we have reason to believe that it will be 
reprinted, or rather that an entirely new work, by a well known 
American ornithologist, will be written from the materials which 
furnished the matter for that which we may consider lost. 
