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M. Giippert on the Origin ofAmher. 



The analysis fi'om each of the three springs, named Joseph, 

 Leopold, and Wenzel, is from a measure of sixteen French 

 ounces. 



Remarlcs on the Origin of Amber. By H. R. Goppert*. 



While, during the month of April of this year, I was engaged 

 in the examination of the deposit of brown coal at Muskau, I dis- 

 covered, besides a rhizomorpha and a lichen allied to the Pyrenula 

 nitida (the only representatives of this family at present known 

 in the flora of the ancient world), a large quantity of amber, 

 which occurs in fossil wood apparently coniferous, partly in 

 large disseminated portions, and pardy in the resin vessels them- 

 selves. A fir cone, found there by Mr Kehlosen, director of the 

 alum manufactory, approaches most nearly the cone of the 

 Pinus sylvestris, but differs exceedingly from some others which 

 were obtained at Salyhausen in the Wetterau, and which have 



' From Poggendorff's Analen der Physik und Cheniie, 1836. 



