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INSECTS OF ALGIERS, 
FROM THE 
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY OF PARIS. 
(Confided to Asa Fitch, M. D., for the Agricultural Society of New-York.) 
Through Mons. A. Vattemare’s International Exchange, we 
have received insects, hurtful to agriculture, from Algiers _ 136 
species—correctly named, from^lne-Edwards, Esq., Senior of 
the Faculty of Sciences, Administrator and Curator of the Col¬ 
lection of Entomology, Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 
When in Paris, in 1851, we had an interview with Mr. Edwards, 
and received most cordial assurances, that he would with great 
pleasure exchange with us any thing which related to insects, 
injurious to vegetation, that might be desirable. We communi¬ 
cated to Dr. Asa Fitch, of Salem, Washington county, the pro¬ 
posal made, and he very kindly consented to prepare a case of 
insects, injurious to vegetation, in this country, and forward it 
to Mr. Edwards, for the Museum of Natural History. This we 
communicated to Mr. Edwards, through Mons. Vattemare, and 
we are greatly gratified at receiving this case of insects. 
LETTERS FROM M. VATTEMARE AND MILNE-EDWARDS, ESQ. 
(Extract of a letter from A. Vattemare to Prof. T. Romeyn Beck, dated Paris, Feb. 9, 1854.) 
“ A collection of insects from Algiers, hurtful to vegetation, 
&c., presented by Prof. Milne Edwards, in the name of the pro¬ 
fessors and regents of the Museum of Natural History of Paris. 
This collection, destined to the Cabinet of Natural History, is to 
be submitted to the Agricultural Society, and to the particular 
attention of Asa Fitch, Esq., whose important labors, concerning 
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