419) 
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XXXIV. ExrRACTS from the Minute- Boor, of the Iu AN 
April 
sont x 
_ Society of Lonpon. 
Mz. LAMBERT, y. P. L. S. ae dias Society, 
in. reference: to:his Account of the Herbarium,;of Pallas, 
- Linn. Trans. vol. x. p. 259, that on looking over,the genus 
Serratula of that Herbarium he has found a species which 
-is there named Serratula salsa, and which appears to an- 
swer to Pallas's Description of. the Planta salsa, men- 
tioned in the Appendix to. his, Travels. through the Rus- 
sian Empire.—Georgi, in his Flora of, nie ?- 1220, 
quotes for it Pallas's Travels, , vol. à 4, p. 502. . 
Jv 18. Read a Letter from Thomas. Mantell, Tac. m T L.S., to 
‚the Secretary, containing an account of an extraordinary 
. Instance of. the preservation of animal life without food, 
in the case of a Pig, which was buried in its stye by the 
fall of a part of the Chalk Cliff, under pum Conijn: 9n 
the 14th of December last... +; inui liecoi B18] 
eig an Brie Mi Man Lote 
* On the: 23d. of May, 160 days after the accident, I 
~ owas told that some of the workmen employed in removing 
- the fallen cbalk- had heard the whining of the Pig; and 
[; : »although.-I>had great : doubt. of- the fact, I, encouraged 
them to proceed in clearing away the chalk from the 
31 stye 
