466 Catalogue Raisontte. 



Mr. Schull's memoir is of considerable interest, and embraces the history 

 of the Belgian downs. In the Bruyeres, (Ericetas,) called Mokereide, 

 there occur chalk flints, which do not come from the chalk formation of 

 Low Saxony, nor of Westphalia, nor of Scandinavia. In the Bruyeres 

 of Amerefort, we find blocks of granite of gneiss, sienite, porphyry, and 

 diorite. The blocks diminish in size as we approach the south. Their 

 direction from N.N.E. to S.S. W. is the same as that of the rivers, moun- 

 tains, lakes, and even seas of Scandinavia, from which country the au- 

 thor also derives them. Mr. SchuU connects their origin with former 

 changes of climate, and the breaking up of ice ; but he thinks that their 

 regular arrangement was effected by the industry of the Goths, Vandals, 

 and Huns, who came from the countries farther north, and piled up 

 these remnants of an extraordinary revolution. 



Enumeration of the Mosses gathered in the Island of Sardinia, 

 by Fr. A. Muller ; as well as those Avhich Mr. Fleischer found 

 at Smyrna.— F/ora, 1829. Pp. 385. fViih a Plate. 



The journies which are made in different countries, at the expense of the 

 Esslingen Society, have already been noticed by us, and the advantages 

 which accrue to science from them are very numerous. The enumera- 

 tion which we notice, couiprises the first part of the mosses gathered in 

 their travels by Messrs. Muller and Fleischer, and is editrd by the first 

 of these zealous travellers. The countries visited by them, present a 

 certain number of mosses common to most European countries. There 

 are further eight new species established by Mr. Bruch, known as one 

 of the first myologists of Germany. 



Determination of the Geographical Positions of Malta, Milo, 

 and Corfu. By M. P. Daussy, Engineer-hydrographer. — Connais- 

 sance des Teinpsfor 1831. P. 78. 



A memoir discussing the longitude of Malta, Milo, and Corfu, was pre- 

 sented some time ago to the Academy of Sciences of Paris. For a U)ng 

 time, the longitude of the former place was given entirely on the autho- 

 rity of the ancient observations of Chazelles and of lather Feuillee, 

 which were made in 1693 and 1708, The observations of Baron Zacn 

 afterwards differed from those of Capt. Gautier, which, made in 1816, 

 had been admitted into the Connaissance des Temps. Mr. Daussy, by re- 

 calculating all the observations of which he possessed the data, sup- 

 poses it to be 48' 44", 5= 12° 11' 17". For Milo Mr. Daussy adopts 1 h. 

 28' 27", 45 = 22° 6' 50". He further fixes the longitude of Corfu, which, 

 in the same work, had hitherto been placed, according to the observations 

 of Captain Gautier, at 1 h. 10' 23", 17= 35' 45". 



Dissertazione in cui ei stabilisce per ipotesi che Civita Castel- 

 lana, e I'anticho Veio. By the Chan. Franc. Morelli. In 8vo. 

 Terni, 1825. 



Three countries dispute the advantage of having been the seat of the fa- 

 mous town of Veie. The island of Farnese, the Mount Lupoli, and the 

 city of Castellan a. Francois Morelli endeavours to establish, by a great 

 number of authorities, by historical evidence, as well as by inscriptions 

 and monuments, that the Civita Castellana was formerly the Veie that 

 was beseiged by Camillus, and destroyed by the Romans. 



Handbuch der Gesammten Mineralogie, Sfc. Manual of Prac- 

 tical Mineralogy. By Fr. Aug. Walchner^ Professor in the Po- 

 lytechnic Institution of Carlsruhe. Part I. comprising Oryctog- 

 nosy. In Bvo. Pp. 600. Four Plates. Carlsruhe. 



