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the kind in America, excepting the American Philosophical Society at 
Philadelphia. That was initiated by Franklin and others, before the war 
for independence; this was inaugurated before the close of that war. 
The academy had an honorable origin, and has sustained and still holds 
an honorable position among the learned societies of the world. It has 
promoted investigation; it has published nearly thirty volumes of Me¬ 
moirs and Proceedings; and most of its publications are original contribu¬ 
tions to Science in the broadest sense, and to the liberal and useful Arts. 
The academy will celebrate its one hundredth anniversary on the 26th 
day of May 1880. An address will be delivered by the President of the 
Academy Hon. Charles Francis Adams L. L. D., to be followed by a re¬ 
ception. 
Many of its foreign honorary members, as well as its associate mem¬ 
bers in other parts of the United States, also delegates from kindred 
societies, are expected to be present on this interesting occasion. 
Type Collections of Fossils. —Williams College Museum contains 
the Collection of the late Ebenezer Emmons, including the original spec¬ 
imen of Dromatlierium, the oldest known mammal. 
The American Museum in New York possesses the collections of Prof. 
James Hall, and the “Authors types” of Tuomey and Homes work on the 
later Tertiary of South Carolina. 
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia possesses the types 
of Say, Morton, Troost, Isaac and A. C. Lea, Conrad, Leidy and Cope, 
who have worked on American fossils; while the collections of European 
remains are very valuable, a large proportion of the types of Sowerby’s 
“Mineral Conchology,” Hugh Miller’s “Old Red Sandstone,” Mantell’s 
“ Medals of Creation,” and others of Buckland and Charlesworth as well 
as the celebrated “Bennett collection of fossil sponges.” The collection 
of fossils as a whole is by far the largest and most valuable of any in 
America and is outranked by but few in Europe. 
We would call attention to a fine collection owned by Jon. R. 
Rollins of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Mr. Rollins is desirous of dispos¬ 
ing of the above, and as it embraces a very large number of specimens 
in all the branches of Natural History, it is a rare opportunity for some 
of the many Societies to obtain a collection cheap. (See advertisement.) 
P“We have in press, shortly to appear, a work on Seaside Studies, 
by Mr. James Emerton, the well known naturalist, author of “ Structure 
and Habits of Spiders.” The above is the first of a series, “The Natu¬ 
ralists’ Handy Series.” 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
The American Monthly Microscopical Journal , for March and April. 
The Medical Annals, Albany, N. Y. The Science Advocate, Atco, New 
Jersey. 
