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interesting and different to those of the Baltic. I regret I 
cannot add anything further about them. He also observes 
that the Insects (Neuroptera and Hemiptera, &c.,) Crustacea 
and Arachnida, figured and described by Berendt, 
(‘ Organische Reste in Bernstein,’) are many of them very 
like indeed to the Insects of the present time. They are 
marvellously like recent ones, many being of the same genera, 
and very few indeed out of the way forms, not more than I 
should expect to see in a collection from the East coast of 
Africa, or South America. On the other hand, the late Rev. F. 
W. Hope, in a paper read before the Entomological Society 
(of which he was President) in 1834, states it to be his opinion 
that the Amber Insects are altogether extra European, many 
of them belonging to tropical and temperate climes, while 
some approach South American and Indian forms. He knew 
of no existing species to which they were analogous, and are 
therefore probably extinct. This opinion he had arrived at 
by examination of a variety of specimens in the collections of 
Germany and England, and he adds that several well known 
Entomologists and Naturalists agreed with him. The sub- 
stances therefore, enclosed in Amber, whether animal or 
vegetable, agree with no existing species, the plants producing 
it being extinct, and is therefore Geologically of remote 
antiquity. There is, it will be seen, a considerable difference 
in opinion as to the Insects in Amber, between two eminent 
Entomologists which I merely state, leaving the Doctors to 
disagree, which may, or may not be beneficial to the 
constitution, but it is right this divergence should be noticed, 
Mr. Hope mentions the tail of a Lizard enclosed in Amber 
in the British Museum, and Lizards are found in Sicilian 
Amber ; and at St. Gard in France, this substance is met 
with in a bed of fossil wood, mixed with numerous shells 
Anopullaria, (a marine shell), Paludina, (a freshwater shell) 
