g]g ANIMAL MATTER IN fOSSlLS. 



ployed for raising strawberries at Spring Grove is, after the 

 divisions between the beds have been deducted, o()45 square 

 feet; the beds necessary to give a sufficient supply of cran- 

 berries for the family did not therefore occupy quite £th of 

 the space allotted to sir aw berries. 

 Accident su»- ^ ne society will, \ jiope, forgive this detail of the origin 

 3<st* many aud progress of this kind of cultivation : successful as it has 

 ■kefttl hint* been, it must still be considered in its infancy, and not suf* 

 iiciently established to arford general rules for the regula- 

 tion of a gardener's proceedings: it originated entirely in 

 a fortunate accident, the history of which, will, it is hoped, 

 give an adequate idea of the method now practised, and at 

 the same time bear testimony in favour of the opinion, that 

 more benefit has been derived in the advancement of horti-r 

 cultural knowledge, by pursuing the hints which nature 

 continually gives, than from the effects of abstract reasoning 

 and original invention. 

 Tfcectop not It is remarkable, that, during the seven years these cran? 

 liable to injury. £ m ^$ have been cultivated at Spring Grove, no circum- 

 stance has arisen, from the variety of seasons, from blight, 

 or any other circumstance, that has diminished the quantity 

 of a full crop; the flowers have issued out of their buds, in 

 abundance, in their due season, and fewer of them have been 

 abortive, than in general is the case in other plants. The 

 fruit has gradually swelled and duly ripened without being 

 subject to the attack of any vermin, or to injnries of any 

 kind from the excesses of heat or cold, or from those of 

 wetness or of drought. 



VIII. 



On the Existence of Animal Matter in Mineral Substances, 

 From Parkinson s Organic Remains. 



Marble tinged A^ a marble formed by a species of tubipore resembling 

 with the co- the tubipora musica a reddish tinge is observable, which evi- 

 juunng matter c j ent j, p roc ^ e( l s from some of the original colour of the co- 

 ral having been preserved. This is rendered indubitable by 

 a cloFe examination of the specimen itself, since it is there 



seen, 



