312 Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



on its margin, the inquiry forces itself on the mind, — may it not be 

 the crater of an extinct volcano? But I could perceive not the 

 least indication of any igneous action." 



" Major Burrall presented me with a small specimen of the native 

 iron, whose characters correspond exactly to those given in the 

 12th volume of this Journal ; but it furnishes no additional infor- 

 mation." — SiUimaris Journal^ vol. xiv. p. 223. 



In the review of Prof. Olmsted's official " Report on the Geology 

 of North Carolina," given in the same Number, p. 235, occurs the 

 subjoined notice of specimens of native iron from that state. 



** One of the specimens of iron-ore sent to Prof. Olmsted, from 

 the slate-formation, or gold-region, proved to be native iron. An- 

 other was afterwards discovered that weighed twenty-seven pounds, 

 and a part of it was wrought by the blacksmiths." — p. 31 and 108. 



An account of the dightly arseniuretted native iron of Bedford 

 county, Connecticut, (also extracted from Silliman's Journal,) will 

 be found in the present volume of the Phil. Mag. and Annals, 

 p. 73. 



FOSSIL REPTILES. 



M. Jaeger, in his work Vber die Fossile Reptilien, tvelcke in Wur- 

 temberg aufgefunden Ivor den sind, Stuttgart, 1828, gives the follow- 

 ing list of fossil reptiles found in the Wirtemberg rocks : 

 " Crocodilus Bollensis. 

 Geosaums Bollensis. 

 Ichthyosaurus platyodon. 

 Ichthyosaurus communis. 

 Ichthyosaurus intermedins. 

 Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris. 

 L Plesiosaurus ? 

 In the variegated Marl, r Cylindricodon. 



( Kewper. ) \ Cubicodon. 



T . , c,, , f Massodonsaurns. 



In Aluminous Shale. ( S alamandroides giganteus. 

 r Plesiosaurus. 



In Muschelkalk J Ichthyosaurus. 



I A third Reptile. 



H.T.D.B. 



In the Lias <( 



METHOD OF PRESERVING FUNGUSES. 



Mr. Cooke, surgeon (Trinity Square, Tower Hill), having been 

 very successful in his endeavours to preserve anatomical preparations 

 in salt and water, was requested to try to preserve in the same way 

 a specimen of Clavaria muscoides (Sowerby's English Fungi), sup- 

 posing that it might answer for funguses of some kinds. 



Mr. Cooke in a written account says : " I put it into brine a little 

 below saturation, suspending it by a delicate thread of silk, and 

 closing the bottle by means of glass. Since that time it has re- 

 mained in the solution, and with the exception of having become a 

 little deeper in colour it is unchanged. As spirits are not only ex- 

 pensive, 



