The Insects magnified. Cheese Mite, magnified 
t th ~— 7 a 
The insects above delineated are some of those collected and sent 
to London by Mr. Crosse. We have placed an ordinary cheese- 
mite near them, drawn to the same scale, in order to show the rela-~ 
tive size, and the similarity of appearance. Like the mite, the new 
insects have fine hairs scantily distributed on the body, but these be- 
came invisible on the immersion of the insect in the balsam. Their 
varied positions, the arrangement of their legs, &c., are owing to 
their accidental suspension in the balsam, and the pga press- 
ure of the plate of talc upon them.—Mag. Pop. 
We cannot believe that life and organization Hy = produced 
by galvanic power, but would sooner suppose that the ova of the in- 
sects may have been contained in the materials galvanized or come 
into them during the process, and that the galvanic power may have 
quickened them into life, as electricity and animal warmth pia 
upon eggs.—Ep. Am. Jour. 
4. Fossil Remains of the Elephant, Elephas primigeneus.—Every 
discovery of these fossils in our country deserves a distinct record 
by some responsible name. Some account of the following was pub- 
lished in the public papers, but,I believe no notice of them is to be 
found in this Journal. 
These fossil remains were dug up from a sand bank on the Iron- 
diquot Creek in the town of Perinton, about ten miles east of this 
‘cit 
They consist of a tusk and two teeth of the fossil elephant. The 
teeth are well preserved. The tusk had decayed for some distance 
at each end. As it lay in the sand, curved somewhat, it measured 
ten feet in length, and seven feet of it were removed, but a portion 
of this length broke into many pieces. ‘The longest piece is two feet 
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