All the members regretted your determination to stay the residue of the winter in Albany.
"The little tortoise is referred, with a new and singular bird, to a zoological committee for examination.

The sulphate of strontian is elegant.
"I am forming a parcel for Professor Schreibers, curator of the Austrian emperor's cabinet at Vienna; the opportunity will be excellent to send a few." _Report on the Copper of Lake Superior_ .-- Professor Silliman, in announcing a notice of my work on the mines, for the next number of the _Journal of Science_, Feb.

5th, says: "I have written to the Secretary of War, and he has given his consent to have your report appear in the _Journal of Science_." Governor Cass, of Michigan (Feb.

20th), expresses his thanks for a manuscript copy of the MS.report.

"I trust," he adds, "the report will be published by the government.