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as not to.admit a single alteration into 
the text, but rather to insert, in brief notes, 
such trifling errors as may be detected. 
~ Any notes or corrections, or any hints on 
the subject, that the admirers of Fuller 
may have the goodness to send to Messrs. 
Nichols and Son, Printers, will be thank- 
fully received, and duly noticed. 
An important national work will be 
published about the Easter recess, under 
‘the title of County Annual Archives. 
‘ Hitherto the annals of each county have 
been entirely lost to the public, and any 
one desirous of referring to any particular 
event or proceeding in the coanty in 
which he resides, has no means wherever 
of gaining such information, however in- 
teresting it may be to himself or impor- 
tant to the public. As the County Ar- 
chives is intended to supply this deside- 
ratum, the contents of each annual vo- 
lume will be arranged under the names 
of the counties to which they respectively 
belong, and ‘the subjects classed under 
five general departments: 1. Public Bu- 
siness. 2. Civil and Criminal Jurispru- 
dence. 8. Political 2conomy. 4. Chro- 
-nicle. 5. Biography. 
ham, has in the press a Translation of 
M. Lasteyrie’s Account of the Introduc- 
tion of-the Merino Race ef Sheep into 
the several Countries of Hurope where 
they are naturalized. The work 1s ac- 
companied with notes relative to the mode 
of managing this valuable breed, wluch 
the translator’s experience has enabled 
- him to supply. | Mdinns 
It has long been matter of surprise to 
foreign naturalists, that although in this 
country berany has been cultivated with 
a'zeal and. success which leave‘nothing 
to desire, scarcely any attention has been 
hitherto paid to the sister science ento- 
mology; su that while the vegetable pro- 
ductions of the British isles are for the 
qnost part well known, and accurately 
descrived, nut a third of cur ntmerous 
tribes of-insects have been noticed or 
enumerated. ‘This neglect is, doubtiess, 
principally to be attributed to the want 
of.a popular and comprehensive elemen- 
tary work, adapted to the present im- 
proyed stale of the science. To supply 
this desideratum, and facilitate the study, 
in Britain, of a department of: natural 
history, singularly amusing and instruc- 
tive; abounding in objects stoking in their 
shape and structure, splendid in deco- 
ration, and in the highest degree inter- 
esting in habits, manners, and economy 5 
the Rev. 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
Mr. Bensamin Tuompson, of Notting- 
W. Kirpy,, A.B. IVLS. 
[Ma rch I, 
author of Monographia Apum Anglia, 
and Mr. W. Srencr, F.L.5.. are engae 
ged in preparing an Intreduction to En- 
tomology, whichis‘ astate of consider- 
abie forwardness. ‘The plan of the work 
is popular; but without overleoking 
science, to the technical and anatoancal 
departments of which, much new matter 
will be contributed, its object, after ob- 
viating objections, and removing preju-- 
dices, is to include every thing useful or - 
Interesting to the entomological student, 
except descriptions of genera and species, 
which are foreign to the nature of such 
Bi work. fy i 
The new East India college, at Hailey- 
bury, Hertfordshire, was a few months 
since completed. Tt'is a very neat and 
handsome ‘structure, composed entirely 
on the Grecian model, after the designs 
of Mr. William Wilkins, jun. It con- 
sists of four sides, forming a quadrangle, 
witha well-proportioned square in the 
centre. The principal front, of free- 
stone, faces the east, and commands a 
distant view of the high north road, from 
which it has a very beautiful appearance. 
In this front are the chapel, dining-hall, 
and library; the kitchen and offices com- 
posing one wing, and the Principal’s 
apartments the other. The other three 
sides contain separate apartments for 120 
students, having a recess for _a bed, and 
a closet for books, in each, so that every 
student has a commodious apartment to 
himself:' The centre and wings of these 
three sides of the quadrangle, also con- _ 
tain houses for the professors, and seve- 
‘ral lecture-rooms, besides the various 
offices necessary for the college-servants, | 
&e. The grounds belonging to the col- 
lege are now laying out agreeably toa 
plan of Mr. Repton, and when com- 
pleted, will, together with the building, be 
a great improvement to that part of the — 
county ; while the institution itself will 
be-a Jasting memorial of the zeal of the 
East India Company in the cause of hi-- 
térature and science, as well as the source 
of benefit and advantage both at home 
and in India, .The nomination of stu- 
cents to the college is vested in the di- 
rectors, and is, in fact, a virtial appointe 
ment’ as writers. ‘The terms of admis- 
sion are 100 guineas per annum. The 
students wear an academical habit, and 
are subject to college liscipline and re- 
strictions. Their fourth annual exami- 
nation took place on the 21st December, 
when the prizes were distributed as fol- 
lows: ae ey Bie 
To Mr, Robert Anderson, the certificate of 
: ) as. __. | superior 
