146 Scientific Intelligence. 
MisceLtLANeEous ITEMS. 
66. At the Italian Scientific Association for 1844, Von Bucn exhib- 
ited a geological map of Sicily made by M. Horrmann, and observing 
that the granites of Calabria haye a relation to those of Sicily, deduced 
that the Straits of Messina, must have been produced at the period of 
the granitic eruptions; and consequently that Sicily and Calabria were 
never united.—L’ Institut, No. 603, 1845, p. 260. 
67. The Geological Society of France commenced their extraordi- 
nary session for the past year on the 14th of September at Avallon. 
The place was selected on account of the great geological interest of 
the country around, 
68. Expedition to Siberia, (L’Institut, No. 603, 1845, p. 257.)—M. 
MippenporrF is engaged on an expedition into Siberia, and has already 
made extensive observations and collections towards elucidating the 
natural history of that country. 
69. Rail Road Excavations in England.—The sections made through 
the country are not only bringing to light interesting geological facts, 
but curious historical monuments. The line of railway from Brighton 
to Lewes cuts directly through the ancient Priory destroyed by Henry 
VILL, and across the site of the high altar and the leaden coffins of 
William of Warren and his countess Gundreda, daughter of William 
the Conqueror, and the skeletons when disinterred were found in very 
tolerable preservation. They are to be placed in Southover church 
under the sepulchral tablet of Gundred, which had been thrown by 
when the Priory was destroyed, and was made use of (the smooth side 
upward) in the tomb of a country gentleman, Epwarp SHIRLEY, in a 
village church-yard seven miles from Lewes; now the bones will be 
again covered by the Latin laudatory hexameters.* 
70. Professor Baxrour, late of the University of Glasgow, has been 
elected to the botanical chair in the University of Edinburgh, vacated 
by the death of the excellent Dr. Granam. We learn that the profes- 
sorship at Glasgow, relinquished by Dr. Batrour, has been offered to 
that very able botanist, G. A. Watxer Arnott, Esq. of Arlary, Kin- 
rosshire. 
71. Identity of Light, Heat and Electricity, (Athenzeum, No. 941.) 
—Mr. Farapay, on the 2d of Nov. last, announced, at a meeting of the 
Council of the Royal Institution, a very remarkable discovery ; which 
appears to connect the imponderable agencies yet closer together, if 
it does not indeed prove that light, heat and electricity are merely 
: it te the history of the antiquities of Lewes by Honsrieun, we find a drawing 
of Gundreda’s tomb ; the slab referred to above was beautifully and deeply sculp- 
tured both for the inscription and the ornaments.—Eps. 
