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These foot-priuts are met with iii a coarsely granular sandstone that 

 occurs about SOO feet below the highest bed of the coal-formation in the 

 county Westmoreland of Pennsylvania. T\vo such impressions appear as 

 if produced by "\Vading-birds, and are distinguished by King with the 

 names Ornithiehnites ijaUinuloides and Culbcrtsonil. Five other such 

 impressions consist of a larger roundish track, around the half or two- 

 thirds of whose circumference five other impressions radiate, which in 

 two of the specimens have a lanceolate, but in the three others an irre- 

 gular rounded or oval form The impressions belonging to the first two 

 specimens are ascribed by King to Saurian reptiles, upon which he bestows 

 the names of Thenaroims leptodactylus and pacliydadylus. He is quite uncer- 

 tain, however, with regard to the other foot-prints, which he might refer to 

 Digitigrade Carnivora, or in some degree to Hippopotami ; the animals, from 

 whomsoever they proceed, he would have designated by the provisional 

 names, Tlienaropus splieerodactylus and ocidadylus. The Reporter readily 

 confesses his inability to form any opinion respecting these singular impres- 

 sions. Upon another plane of sandstone from twelve to fourteen, some very 

 distinct, and several indistinct, impressions were found, and are attributed by 

 King to a marsupial animal. The fore and hind feet are different, the for- 

 mer being provided with four toes, and four and a half inches long, the latter 

 with five toes, of five and a half inches in length. On each of the feet there 

 is one toe that stands off from the rest like a thumb. The fore and hind foot- 

 prints are only separated by an interval of about two inches from each other. 



Of guide-books to the preservation of natural objects I 

 am acquainted with two, one by StreubeL, ' Der Conservator 

 oder Anleitung Naturaliensammlunffeii anzulesren und zu 



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erhalten,' Berlin ; the other at Heidelb. by Leveu, entitled 

 ' Anweisung zum Abbalgeu, Ausstopfeu und Conservireii 

 der Vb'gel, Saiigthiere, Fische und Amphibien/ 



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SIMLE CATAMiHiNyE. Professor Owen has communicated some short 

 notices concerning the dissection of a female Ourang-outaug that died 

 in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London. The animal might be 

 between five and six years old, and weighed forty-one pounds ; the eruption 

 of the permanent teeth had been in a state of progress during one year. 

 The laryugeal sacs extended as far as the clavicular bones and the scapulo- 

 humcral articulation. Owen procured ova from several Graafiau vesicles, 

 one of which inclosed two ova ; they closely resembled the human, and had 



