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ralists have not too soon become alive to the remarkable fact that those shaggy monarchs of the prairie, the ponderous buffalo tribe, are well-nigh extinct. They have dwindled away before the exterminating tread of the hunter and the march of the pioneer of civilization. The prairie no longer shakes beneath the impetuous advance of the mighty herd, and even individual specimens are becoming scarce. The representatives of the Smithsonian Museum in America therefore sent out an expedition into the West in search of what buffaloes there might be remaining, in order that the country might preserve some memento of the millions of those animals which not many years ago roamed over the prairies. Twenty-five animals in all captured, six of which have been arragned in a group for exhibition. One of the American papers describes this as the transference fo a little bit of Montana- a small square patch from the wildest part of the Wild West- to the National Museum. The idea is one which is exactly applicable to COLONEL W. F. CODY's collection, which is approaching its last days of residence among us. Those scenes in which the primeval forest and the vast expanse of prairie are represented, which elk and bison careering about, chased by the hunter and the scout, is a transference from the Wild West which, as we now learn, should be even more interesting to the naturalist than it is either the artistic or the historical student. We leave out of view for the moment the ordinary spectator who goes only to be amused or leave out of view for the moment the ordinary spectator who geos only to be amused or leave out of view for the moment