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pits at Hove. The Reverend H. Hoper of Pontslade has these 

 interesting remains in his possession. — Phil. Mag. Nov. 1827. 



15. HansteeiCs projected Journey to Siberia. — Our distin- 

 guished correspondent Professor Hansteen of Christiania writes 

 to us as follows : " I am still living in hopes that I shall be 

 able to set out on my journey through Siberia to Ochotz in Fe- 

 bruary or March 1828. Being myself not sufficiently expe- 

 rienced in natural history, I shall be accompanied by a young 

 mineralogist, Keilhau, of this place (Christiania) ; and Profes- 

 sor Erman of Berlin has offered me the company of his son Dr 

 Erman, and assures me that Baron von Humboldt and Baron 

 von Buch are ready to furnish him with the necessary instruc- 

 tions in geological and geognostical science.*" 



16. FartclCs Jourriey through Transylvania. — Partch of 

 Vienna, an active and acute geologist, was sent by the Austrian 

 government, in 1826, into Transylvania. He remained in that 

 very interesting, but much neglected, part of Europe from 

 April 1826 to February 1827. In defiance of all the difficul- 

 ties opposed to him in his progress through a country without 

 roads, covered with extensive forests, and affording only the 

 most miserable accommodation to the traveller, he made a full 

 survey of its mines and saline districts, and of the rock forma- 

 tions over great, tracts. Boue gave him the use of the geological 

 maps he constructed during his perilous expedition through that 

 country. He is inclined to refer the saliferous sandstone of the 

 middle districts to the tertiary class of rocks. Boue asks, in a 

 communication to us, Is there not, in Transylvania, a sahferous 

 deposite in the Carpathian sandstone, of the same age with the 

 secondary salt formation, or of some of the gypsums of the Alps, 

 and also a more recent deposite connected with that tertiary mo^ 

 lasse which is of the same age with the salt in the blue marl of 

 the Appcnines and of Sicily ? Boue is of opinion that nearly 

 the whole of the molasse takes the place of the blue tertiary marl, 

 which is higher or newer in the series than the Paris coarse ma- 

 rine limestone : still the position of the lower Nagelfluhe along 

 the Alps is dubious. 



17. Fossil Remains of Quadrupeds in the Tertiary Rocks of 

 Vienna. — During the course of last summer, there was found 

 in the tertiary sand (above the blue marl with shells), near to 



