M. B. Lewy's Expedition to New Granada. 135 



Mr Lewy, during his residence at Bogota, made many 

 experiments with the grains of the Cedron* and brought 

 with him not only specimens of the wood, the leaves, and 

 the fruit of that tree, but also a young live specimen, which 

 is expected to thrive in our conservatories, and may be dis- 

 tributed from thence to our colonies. 



Lately, Mr Rayer has made a series of experiments with 

 this bitter, which confirm the facts announced by Mr Lewy, 

 as to the efficacy of the Cedron against intermittent fevers. 

 We may add, that Mr Lewy did not neglect the study of 

 Fossil Plants, as proved by the interesting collection of Fossil 

 Plants, which he deposited in the Museum. 



Of the Occurrence of the Bemains of the Rein-deer in Scotland. 

 By John Scouler, M.D., F.L.S. Communicated by the 

 Author.* 



It is remarkable, that although remains of the rein-deer 

 have been found in the south of England, and that even so 

 late as the time of Julius Caesar, this animal lived in the 

 north of Germany, no authentic evidence of its former 

 existence in Scotland has yet been recorded. The late inge- 

 nious Dr Hibbert attempted to prove, that even down to the 

 twelfth century wild rein-deer were found in Caithness, where 

 they were hunted by the Norwegian chiefs. The quota- 

 tions which he gives from the northern chronicles although 

 plausible, will scarcely be esteemed conclusive, especially as 

 no bones or horns of the rein-deer have hitherto been found 

 in Caithness or Sutherland.! The rarity of the remains of 

 the rein-deer in Scotland, is probably more apparent than 

 real, for the bones found in bogs and marl are but little 

 attended to, unless remarkable for magnitude; and frag- 

 ments of horns will be referred to the red-deer, or fallow- 

 deer, according to their form, whether round or palmated. 



The fragments which I have to notice were found several 



* Read before the Natural History Society of Glasgow, 2tl December 1851. 

 t Hibbert, Edinburgh Journal of Science, vol. v., p. 50. 



