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Miscellaneous.— Kozoon Canadense.—The discovery of this 
very interesting and remarkable fossil, has excited much 
discussion and attention lately in our scientific periodicals. 
The papers on the subject published in the last number of 
the ‘ Journal of the Geological Society,’ will give our readers 
ample information on the strictly geological part of the 
question, as well as the mineralogical composition of the 
Eozoon, which has been investigated by Dr. Sterry Hunt. 
In the ‘Popular Science Review’ for last April a very interest- 
ing essay on the nature, history, and affinities of this fossil, 
appears from the pen of Professor Rupert Jones, illustrated 
by a well-executed plate. ‘The Intellectual Observer,’ on the 
other hand, has secured the services of Dr. Carpenter, who 
has contributed an article on the Hozoon to the May number 
of that periodical. The animal nature of the fossil and many 
details of structure are ably pointed out in this paper, which 
is illustrated by a very beautiful chromo-lithograph represent- 
ing a portion of the fossil, as well as another uncolored plate. 
And now, after all the excitement and interest which has 
been occasioned by the discovery of a fossil Rhizopod in the 
Laurentian rocks, the oldest stratified deposits, two gentle- 
men, Professors King and Rowney, of Galway, write to the 
editor of the ‘Reader’ to express their conviction that Hozoon 
is not a fossil at all, but a simple physical production ; they 
have made their observations principally on the supposed 
Eozoon of the Connemara marbles, which, however, is not of 
Laurentian age, and have, they say, reluctantly, but delibe- 
rately come to this conclusion. 
