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agree with him in thinking that this might form a valid generic character. 

 The colour on the part of the tail appeared to be affected by it. Dr. Smith 

 observed that he had noticed a similar mark on two different species in South 

 Africa, which seems to confirm Mr. Gbay's opinion. Mr. Ogilby thinks it pos- 

 sible that the same kind of glandular structure may exist in the " brush" of our 

 Common Fox. — Mr. Ogilby described two species of Apes brought over by 

 General Hardwicke, from the Straits of Malacca ; he named them Hylobutes 

 coromandus and H. styllites. He then described some species of Colobus, and Dr. 

 Smith exhibited various species of Moles from his collection. 



ASHMOLEAN SOCIETY OF OXFORD. 



This Society has lately received a valuable donation from Lieut.-Col. Stacy, 

 consisting of organic remains from the Himalaya mountains. They are mostly 

 bones of the Elephant, Mastodon, and Hippopotamus ; Dr. Buckland either has 

 already described them, or will shortly do so. — A paper by Dr. Duncan was 

 read, relating to the various fermented liquors used as drink by man, and dis- 

 cussing at some length the wines of ancient Greece and Italy. — Dr. Daubeny 

 then described the rocks of Adelsback, on the Bohemian frontier, a day's journey 

 from the Riesengebirge, or Giant Mountains of Silesia, remarkable for the 

 weathered condition of the sandstone of which they are formed. The rock is 

 the Quaderanstein, and represents the green-sand formation of this country ; 

 it is a continuation of the rock through which the Elbe flows in Saxon-Swisser- 

 land. The whole of this sandstone formation, occupying a space of four miles 

 by two, is divided into polyhedral masses, to a depth of not less than 100 feet 

 from the upper surface. The causes are supposed to be the force of running 

 water and the downward action of rain, to which Dr. Buckland thought, that 

 the force of the wind should be added, in which opinion we are inclined to 

 concur. 



We may here notice that we have lately received " A Catalogue of the 

 Ashmolean Museum, descriptive of the zoological specimens, antiquities, coins, 

 and miscellaneous curiosities. Oxford : S. Collingwood. 1836." By this cata- 

 logue we are glad to find that the museum of the society — hitherto so notorious 

 for its disorderly and decayed state — has been recently undergoing arrangement. 

 As far as regards the number of the specimens in almost every department of 

 Zoology, the museum is well off, for it contains a great variety of British and 

 foreign species. At the bottom of each page in the list the derivations of the 

 various scientific terms are supplied. Of the state of preservation of the speci- 

 mens we know nothing and are told nothing, but from the circumstance of many 

 of them having been so long neglected, we fear that at least some portion of them 

 must be in a bad condition. With this Museum and the splendid Radcliffe 



