236 Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



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Societe LinnSenne de Normandie, M. Elie de Beaumont, describing 

 the environs of Martigues (Bouches du Rhone), mentions the oc- 

 currence of nummulites, in rocks which he refers to the green-sand 

 formation, and states that the same strata contain, besides Hippu- 

 rites, gryphites, terebratulae, &c. the Cucullea carinata, a fossil 

 whose analogue also is found in the ferruginous and green-sands of 

 Saint-Ils, near Castellane ( Basses Alpes), the barns of Bellevue, 

 near Uchaux (Vaucluse), at Brousseval, near Vassy (Haute Marne), 

 and at the mountain of St. Catharine, near Rouen : they also con- 

 tain a trochus, or Pleurotoma, and a Melania, or Phasianella, whose 

 analogues exist in the green-sand of England and Normandy. Fol- 

 lowing up these strata, he found at Gignac, gryphites, Cucullea?, 

 and Spatangus, known to belong to the green-sand ; and near Pen- 

 nes, on the road to Marseille, Milliolites, Spatangus, Cucullea, Tri- 

 gonia, Pecten (Pecten quinque-costatus), equally known to belong 

 to the green-sand. 



Mr. De la Beche, in a late examination of the environs of Nice 

 and of the neighbouring coast, also found an abundance of nummu- 

 lites in rocks which he refers to the green-sand ; in this case they 

 are sometimes mixed in the same beds with gryphites, and consti- 

 tute a subordinate portion of a formation in which are discovered 

 Ostrea carinata, turrilites, inoceramus, ammonites, nautili, terebra- 

 tula, dolium, echinites, &c. 



This nummulitic green-sand, which cannot be referred to any 

 member of the tertiary series, the calcaire grossier for instance, 

 though this latter contains both nummulites and green grains, is a 

 rock very extensively distributed over the Alps j of the calcareous 

 portion of which it constitutes a considerable part, forming the 

 summits of many lofty mountains. 



FOSSIL HERBIVOROUS REPTILES. 



In a late communication from Dr. Jseger ofStutgard, to Mr.Mantell 

 of kewes, the learned Professor states that he has discovered in the 

 Keuper-sandstein the remains of two species, if not genera, of herbi- 

 vorous reptiles : the one having lateral teeth of a cylindrical, and 

 the other of a cubical form ; the latter possessing lateral eminences 

 somewhat similar to the teeth of the Iguanodon. Dr. J. expresses his 

 intention of publishing figures and descriptions of these interesting 

 remains in the course of the year. 



SOLAR SPOTS. 



The two large solar spots described in the last Number of the Phil. 

 Mag. and Annals, came on the sun's eastern limb again between the 

 hours of 7 and 10 a.m. on the 10th of July, with the same contracted 

 and linear appearance as when they went off early in the morning of 

 the 26th of June. At sunset on the 10th of July, they were a little 

 more defined, and somewhat enlarged in the central part of the 

 black lines which formed their nuclei, but no umbra yet appeared 

 round either of them. At noon of the 12th, the nuclei and umbrae 

 of these spots were elliptical. In the evening of the 16th, the up- 

 per- 



