404 Scientific Intelligence. — Geology. 



malaya *. Captain Herbert considers, also, that no fossil re- 

 mains arc found within that tract of the Himalaya, which he re- 

 gards as the tract of primitive formation, although ammonites 

 are met with beyond the zone of gneiss ; and with regard to the 

 fossil bones, brought, as supposed, from the neighbourhood of 

 the Niti Pass, nothing is kno^n of their origin beyond the fact 

 of their not having been discovered to the south of that pass. 

 These bones were recognised by Professor Buckland as belonging 

 to the same era as those of the caves, the history of which he 

 has so ably illustrated. Our limits will not allow us to enter 

 further into the details of this very interesting and important 

 document, and we must content ourselves with enumerating the 

 following as the mineral productions hitherto discovered in the 

 mountains. They are sulphur, alum, plumbago, bitumen, gyp- 

 sum, potstone, granite, borax, rock salt, gold dust in small 

 quantities, copper, lead, and iron, in some abundance, and anti- 

 mony, combined with lead and sulphur, and manganese with 

 iron."" — Calc. Gov. Gaz, 



15. Natural Gas-Lights at Fredonea. — This village, on the 

 shores of Lake Erie, is lighted every night by inflammable gas 

 from the burning springs, as they are called, in its vicinity. 

 Captain Hall has visited this village, and will no doubt give us 

 an account of it on his return. 



BOTANY, 



16. EriopJiorum puhescens^ Smith. — This very rare species 

 grows, in tolerable abundance, in a boggy field about three miles 

 north of Berwick. It grows in the bog, and flowers in the 

 months of June and July. 



17. Rhodiola and Scilla. — Dr George Johnston of Berwick, 

 has found the Rhodiola rosea, a northern plant, on Fast Castle, 

 and on rocks near Berwick, being the most southerly station 

 hitherto observed. — The Rev. A. Baird observes, that the Scilla 

 verna, which is generally considered peculiar to our northern 

 and western shores, grows plentifully on the seabanks at Guns- 

 green, near Eyemouth. 



• This statement affords a distinct contradiction to an account published 

 in some of the Bengal papers, of a volcano said to have burst forth in the 

 highest snowy peak of the Himalaya mountains, which excited much curiosity 

 in Europe, and has led to some interesting speculations. 



