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Dr. Hosack, Professor of Botany and 
the Materia Medica in Columbia Col- 
lege, and F. L. S. of London, has re- 
cently printed a Catalogue of Plants con- 
tained in the Botanic Garden at Elgin, 
near New York. 
Colonel TrumsButt, of New York, 
proposes to publish by subscription, two 
small prints, one representing the Death 
of General Warren at the Battle of Bun- 
ker’s Hill; the other, the Death of Ge- 
neral Montgomery at the Attack of 
Quebec. 
The Society of Concord in the late 
Dutch colony of Surinam, has pubiished 
a volume of Memourss on Agriculture. 
A Weekly Newspaper is established at 
St. Louis, under the title of The Mis- 
sour! Correspondent and Illinois Gazette. 
The coffee plant was introduced from 
the island of Cuba into Florida, about 
midsummer 1805. It has succeeded be- 
yond all expectation, and is supposed 
will furnish, at no great distance of time, 
@ new and important article of export. 
A Physical and Medical Society has 
been established at West.Point, on Hud- 
son River, under the auspices of Mr. 
Jerrerson and the Secretary of State. 
Colonel Wiiitams, of the Artillery, is 
President of this Society, the principal 
object of which is the improvement ef 
the art of war. 
Dr. Mrircuriti has published some 
Observations (which had been communi- 
eaied to him by a traveller) on the Prac- 
ticability of cutting a Navigable Canal 
through the Isthmus of Panama, which 
the Spanish Government has long repre- 
Repori of Diseases, 
[Aug. 1, 
sented as impracticable, on account of 
the waters of the Pacific being more ele- 
vated than those of the Atlantic Ocean. 
But it would appear, from the accounts 
given by this traveller, that political mo- 
tives, and not natural obstacles, have 
most strongly opposed the execution of 
an idea, which the bare inspection of 
the map of America cannot fail to sug- 
gest to the mind, however little addicted 
to the forming of projects. 
Mr. Jerrerson, President of the United 
States, possesses several busts made by In- 
dians. The human form extends to the 
middle of the body, and the figures are 
nearly of the natural size. The lineaments 
are strongly marked, and such as are pe- 
culiar to the copper-coloured. aboriginal 
inhabitants of America: among others, is 
one of them representing an. aged sa- 
vage, in which the wrinkles and look are 
very expressive. These busts were found 
by. some labourers digging at a place 
called Palmyra, on the river Tennessee. 
It is not known of what materials they 
are made: some are of opinion, that they 
have been cut with a chissel, or sharp 
instrument, out of a solid stone; others 
think that they have been moulded or 
shaped of a soft composition, and after- 
wards baked. The substance is ex- 
tremely hard, Ithas not been ascertained 
whether they are idols, or only images 
of distinguished men. It will be an ui- 
teresting object of research fer antiqua- 
ries, to discover who were the ancestors 
of the present Indians, capable of éxe- 
cuting such a good resemblance of the 
human head, face, neck, and shoulders, 
REPORT OF DISEASES, 
En the public and private Practice of one of the Physicians of the Fiasbury Dispensary, 
A from the 20th of June to the 20th of July. 
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Pthysis Pulmonalis.2..~.<2-.-<+ 99 Dyspepsia... ais ee PTE oS 
Pecumanian:(/opoL8 26 SE Vie Serer ter ae 1 Morbi Infantiles.. |. (5 aac eae aa 
Ee eee ee ECT aeae . Nervous complaints still continue to 
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aly teas oh Ae ae 7 Taal ie in the nosological catalogue... 
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fees. EPS eo ae ee or are apt to be more deeply rooted, than 
Wlomeas Loceiee mete ....---. 1 those which are too indiscriminately re- 
Piartheas..- .224-)6L42 Lule eee. 13 garded as arising merely from an indulged 
Hemorrmis ss cic 2S 23 eee on ot and capricious fancy. . 
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proach to ridicule, diserders of this class 
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