318 Lecturer, 



The cranium of a Iiorned animal, tl'.e race of which 

 seems to be extinct, has been recently dug up at Oeltre, 

 nenr Ninava, in Russia. From the description given of 

 this part of the skeleton, the animal nuist have been at least 

 10 or 1'2/^1'eet long; the horns which are allaehed to the 

 bead, and which have partly passed into a fossil state, far 

 exceed in size those of the oxen of the present day: when 

 measured at the root, they are a foot and a half in circum- 

 ference, and two feet and a half long. After finding the 

 cranium, several efforts were made to recover the entire 

 skeleton, but two teeth only were found. Foreign natura- 

 lists are of opinion, that the head in question nuist have 

 belonged to the race of Urus or ^^iirocliSy meutioned by 

 CiEsar in the 6th book of his Commentaries, and which are 

 supposed to exist still in the mountains of Siberia^ and even 

 in the forests of Poland. 



Sir George Mackenzie, accompanied by Mr. Henry 

 Holland, and Mr. Richard Bright, of the university of 

 Edinburgh, has sailed from I.eifh for Stromness ; from 

 whence they are to proceed to Iceland, in a vessel which is 

 expected there from London. 



The object of this arduous undertaking is to explore part 

 of that inhospitable country, which, without British com- 

 miseration, would, in consequence of the war, be deprived 

 of the absolute necessaries of life. 



In the circumscribed state of our commerce, this country 

 is very well worth the attention of Great Britain. Fn re- 

 turn for our coarse fabrics, wc might procure such articles 

 as Iceland, under proper management, would afford in 

 great plenty; such as fish, oil, feathers, and sulphur, the 

 scarcity ot which last article has been such as to have al- 

 ready attracted the attention of parliament. 



MTDICAL AND CHEMICAL LECTURES. 



Dr. Cluttei^r^'CK will beoin his Summer Course of 

 J^ectures on the Theory and Practice of Physic, Materia 

 Medica, and Chemistry, on Monday, .June the 4th, at a 

 quarter before Ten in the morning, at his hougCj No- I , 

 Crescent, New Bridge Street; where further particulars 

 piay be had. 



Mr. Taunton will commence his Summer Course of 

 Lectures on Anatomy, Pnysiologv, Pathology, and Sur- 

 gery, on Saturday, May 2f)th, 1810, at 8 o'clock in the 

 evening precisely. The Lectures will be continued every 

 succeeding Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday^ at the samq 

 hour, until the completion of the Course. 



\\i the above Course of Lectures it i§ proposed to. take a 



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