1825.] Scientific Noticv^ — Zoology. 315 



molite of Nuttall, erroneously referred to serpentitie, oti the 

 mere ground of chemical affinity, by Mr. Vanuxem. 



The magnitude of other crystals at this place (Warwick) is 

 equally surprising as that of the spinelles. Crystals of scapo^ 

 lite, terminated, are to be found, each of the six faces of the 

 prisms measuring four iiicheS — or a circumference of tWenty- 

 four inches, or even more. They are of course rough and cor- 

 roded ; but the smaller prisms, often with narrow replacements 

 on the edges, are very perfect and almost transparent— all of 

 these shghtly tinged with green. 



In a very singular bed, subordinate to, and indeed in the 

 crystalline limestone occuring in the form of a breccia of the 

 old red sandstone, red graphic granite, and white feldspar, I 

 have found partly diaphanous, sottish, green octahedral crystals 

 of considerable magnitude for which I know of no ascertained 

 character. They appear almost similar in substance to steatite, 

 being easily cut by a knife. They are not however found, as 

 the spinelle of this locality, in Carbonate of lime. Considering 

 therefore this mineral as new, I propose to call it Pseudolite, in 

 allusion to its affinity to the pseudomorphotis crystals of steatite. 



The following analyses are by Professor Gnielin^ of Tubingen, 

 in Wurtemberg : — 



4. Lepidolite. 



Silica 62-254 



Alumina 28-345 



Ox. of Manganese 3-602 



Potash 6-903 



Lithion 4-792 



Fluoric Acid 3-609 



99-505 

 5. Helvin, 



Silica , 33-258 



Glucine 12*089 



Oxydule of manganese 31'817 



Protoxide of iron 5*564 



Sulphuret of manganese 14-000 



96-728 

 Loss by ignition . , . . , 1*555 



Zoology. 



6. On Lamouronx's Neiv Division of the Animal Kingdom, 



Lamouroux, on the 7th of February, 1825, presented to the 

 Linnsean Society of Calvados, a Treatise on a new Distribution 



