favor by forwarding it to the editor to be inserted in a subsequent volume. An article on the comparative ages of our white, free colored, and slave population contains some novel and curious calculations and results, founded upon the two last censuses taken in this country and in England A view of the plan adopted in Massachusetts for a complete registry of births, marriages and deaths, presents some interesting facts, and offers an excellent model for imitation in the other States. Another novel article presents some extraordinary statistics respecting private munificence for charitable objects in one of the great cities of the Union; and it is hoped that, in the course of another year, similar information may be collected in other quarters. The chapters upon the new State of Florida and upon Texas, contain pretty copious details respecting these new accessions to the brotherhood of States. A great amount of original matter will be found embodied in other portions of the work, which will be of use to the politician and the merchant, and for purposes of general reference. Grateful for the liberal patronage of the work in former years, the editor presents this volume to the public in the hope that it will be found to merit as kind a reception as was obtained by its predecessors. Cambridge, Mass., October 1, 1845. Church Festivals, Abstracts of Public Laws,. American Obituary, Articles imported in 1844, British American Provinces, Cabinet, Officers in the, Chronological Cycles, Circuit Courts, Climate, effect of agriculture on, Collections, cost of, Collectors of Customs, 143 Exports, value of, in 1844, 157 Festivals of the Church,. 87 Fixed Stars, Apparent Places of, 261 Florida Territory,. 175 5 65 292 313 Flowering of Fruit Trees, 85 302 Foreign Goods imported 170 270 Foreign Ministers, 116 123 France,. 310 5 Jupiter's Satellites, Eclipses of, 50 274 53 . 186 200 Laws, Abstracts of, 143 104 Louisiana, 268 180 Mahometan Calendar, 6 170 Maine, 201 Ephemeris of the Sun, Consuls in Foreign Countries, Corrections and Additions, Countries whence goods are brought, Darkness of the Nights, Departments, Officers in the, Duties, cost of collecting, Eclipses in 1846, Elections, State, Episcopal Church, European States, 8 Michigan, 152 Mint, 140 Mississippi, 244 Missouri, 101 Navy List, 112 Medical Schools, 185 177 Meteorology, Espy on, 86 281 131 265 289 120 51 New Hampshire, 203 108 New Jersey, 233 297 New York, 221 200 Nights, Darkness of the, 8 34 North Carolina, . 255 178 Observatories, Lat. and Long. of, 57 Occultations, 56 48 |