Excerpt from Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art, for 1854, Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, AntiquitiesThe Association approved of the plan presented by Lieut. Hunt, and a committee of five was appointed to prepare a plan for the organization of the Department, and to memorialize Congress on the subject.An Academy of Natural Sciences has been formed at San Francisco, California, and regular meetings holden. An address has been published, setting forth the objects of the society, and an addendum giving directions for preparations of Specimens to be donated to the institution. This society, if properly maintained, cannot but be of great assistance in giving to the world a knowledge of the natural history and resources of California. The field of the State is new, almost untrodden by the naturalist.A University for Australia has been founded and endowed by the Legis latare of Sidney. This step, says the London Athenaeum, is one of great public interest, not only so far as every extension of the machinery of education is of interest, but also as a preliminary step towards the educational independence of the colonies settled by the English across the line.

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