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eastern side of the northern wing of the Island of Skye, below the 

 farm of Lanfern, I found a petrified turtle, of large size. It rested 

 on a wacke rock, and had been part of a shattery bed of lime- 

 stone, which occupied the sea beach behind, but which the sea 

 had washed from around it. Its shell preserved its natural 

 yellowish-green colour only a little blanched ; and all its septa- 

 ria were perfectly distinct. Its neck extended from its body in 

 a curvature like that of a swan, and had all its conical rings 

 overlapping each other. Its eye was perfectly distinct, and on- 

 ly its mouth was a little bruised. Internally it consisted of 

 dark-blue limestone, intersected by the animal membranes of 

 snowy whiteness." This notice we extract from a published 

 lecture on geology by the late Reverend James Headrick, bear- 

 ing date 1828, Montrose. The fossil may belong to the genus 

 Plesiosaurus. 



15. Infusory Animals of the Springs of Carlsbad. The re- 

 searches which had been made by Ehrenberg respecting the 

 infusoria which are found in the mineral waters of Carlsbad, 

 had previously demonstrated that there were to be found among 

 those animals forms which were very peculiar, and which had 

 not previously been observed except among marine animals, 

 But, besides this, these waters, with the exception of those of 

 Tessel, and the common fresh-water springs, are now found to 

 contain a considerable number of forms which are altogether 

 new, which M. Ehrenberg had not previously observed in fresh- 

 water, and which probably, therefore, belong either to the waters 

 of the ocean, or to salt springs ; or, finally, are altogether pe- 

 culiar to the waters of Carlsbad. 



ANTHKOPOLOGy. 



16. Use of Horse Flesh as an article of Food in Paris. 

 " We must now," says the Editor of the Athenaeum, in his no- 

 tice of Parent Duchatelet's work on Public Health, " enter- 

 tain our readers with the history of horse-flesh as a part of the 

 dietary of our good neighbours the Parisians. The impurities 

 of the knacker's yard, and the choice of his subjects, are too 

 well known to require detail here ; yet it is through this chan- 

 nel that the < cheap and nasty' eating-houses for the humbler 

 c jasses were accustomed (clandestinely) to obtain tlieir supply 



