The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. 147 

 regions, such as Mango, Litchee, Loquat, the Alligator pear, 

 &c., or in procuring the best varieties of potatoes of which Ben- 

 gal was formerly destitute ; or, finally, by furnishing fresh seeds 

 of coffee, which they now cultivate in many parts, and oreat 

 quantities of the Teak wood, so valuable for the mariner." 



Although the liberality of the India Company, in regard to 

 botany, is highly praiseworthy, we confess ourselves unable to 

 comprehend how the science of plants of all the branches of na- 

 tural history should be the one selected for exclusive patronao-e 

 by the Lords of our Eastern Empire. We now, however, know 

 so much on this subject, as to be entitled to say that when our 

 Indian affairs are finally arranged, this exclusive patronage of 

 one branch of knowledge will be entirely done away with, and 

 that Geology (in its most comprehensive sense), Mineralogy, 

 and Zoology, will also be brought forward in a manner wordiy 

 the munificence of this great and hberal commercial company. 



Account of the Ajrbusculites argentca, from the Carlo^iiferous 

 Limestone of Innerteil, near to Kirltcaldy, in Fifeshire. By 

 P. MuEEAY, M. D. of Scarborough. Communicated by the 

 Author. 



An the carboniferous limestone of the extensive quarries near 

 Kirkcaldy, in Fife, may be observed, mingled with crinoidal re- 

 mains, very delicate vermiform bodies, in fragments of different 

 lengths, shining with metallic lustre, neither articulated nor cel- 

 lular, and resembimg broken bits of silver wire. Very short 

 and minute pieces had been noticed among the coralloid fossils 

 of this limestone, collected by myself many years ago, when a 

 medical student at Edinburgh, But this winter, I have been, 

 through the kindness of Mr Murray of Edinburgh, supplied 

 with a specimen so much more perfect, as to induce me to call 

 the attention of geologists to it, as a fossil animal hitherto un- 

 described, and not exactly reducible to any known group. 



It would appear to have been an attached MoUusca, dichoto- 

 mous at first, but afterwards sending out lateral branches, mo- 

 derately tapering, and with very distant and obscure (if any) 



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