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vallies than on the mountains. — Gloucestershire Chronicle, April 14, 1837. 

 [We have seen and received many notices of a similar nature to the above. — Ed. 

 Nat.] 



GEOLOGY. 



Antediluvian Remains. — A specimen of an antediluvian monster of the 

 Ichthyosaurus tribe has this week been discovered in a quarry at Twerton, the 

 property of C. Wilkins, Esq. It is a petrified skeleton embedded in lias, of 

 which the huge jaws, teeth, vertebrae, and ribs are perfect. — Bath Journal, as 

 quoted in the Derby Reporter, March 26, 1838. 



Carbonized Tree. — A tree in a complete state of carbonization has been 

 found at Guadaloupe, buried in the midst of volcanic substances. There was no 

 vestige of leaves ; it was broken seven feet below the first branches, and the 

 fracture resembled that of trees destroyed by a hurricane ; it was at intervals 

 surrounded by a parchment-like cylindrical substance, the colour of a dead leaf, 

 which was the remainder of a vegetable, called in that country the " burning 

 Liana," which is as succulent as the Cactus, and which, being suddenly exposed 

 to a violent heat, lost its aqueous particles without the entire destruction of its 

 bark. The whole was found in a stratum of red puzzolanum mixed with pu- 

 mice. The charcoal to which it was reduced, was the same as that used for 

 domestic purposes, except that a slight smell of coal was exhaled from it during 

 combustion. Six different strata laid above this tree ; the uppermost, of vege- 

 table earth, proved the antiquity of the whole, and this, combined with the dis- 

 tance from the present active volcano, makes it probable that the irruption which 

 covered it proceeded from the Hue'lmont group, of which the Cara'ibe forms the 

 principal summit. — Athenaeum, March 24, 1838. 



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Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis ; sive Enumeratio contracta 

 Ordinum, Generum, Specierumque Plantarum hue usque cognitarum, juxta 

 Methodi Naturalis Normas digesta. Auctore Aug. Pyramo De Candolle. 

 Pars sexta : sistens Compositarum continuationem. Parisiis : Treuttel et Wurtz. 

 —London: Henry Kernot, 59, Greek-Street, Soho-Square. 1837. 



