riujnhoidt^s Travels. — Fqffil Bones. ipt 



doubt be foon able to find both, or at leaft Pallas, whofe 

 fituation is now become pretty favourable, being at a iuHl- 

 cieut dillatice from the fun to be feen in the morning whea 

 the weather is clear. It does not appear likelv that Ceres 

 Ferdinandea, from her great fouth declination, will be feea 

 here till the latter end of April, or perhaps the beginning 

 of May ; but thofe aftronomers who are lituated in more 

 fouthcrn latitudes will view her under more favourable cir- 

 cumllances, and mav perhaps be able to find her fooncr. 



huaieoldt's travels. 



Where Alexander von Humboldt may be at prefent is not 

 known even to his relations ; but all the obfervations which 

 he coUeAed up to the beginnina; of March iSoJ have lately 

 arrived fafe in Europe. He entrulled this valuable depofit, 

 which confilts of four bound volumes and three manufcript 

 bundles, a roll of plans, and a number of drawings of plants, 

 to one of his friends at the Uavannah, where he then was, 

 to be fent to Spain bv a proper opportunity. They arrived 

 in the beginning of September iSci, and have fince been 

 tranfmitted to Berlin. 



FOSSIL BOXES. 



Two horns, with the head and feveral bones of an un- 

 known animal of a monitrous lize, have lately been found 

 in the Mologi circle, of the government of Jaroflawi, on the 

 banks of the Mologa, on an eRate belonging to count Alexei 

 Iwanfwitch Pufchkin. The length of tlic head is two ells 

 Leipfic nieafure *, and the breadth on the forehead one ell 

 eight inches, (two feet five inches.) I'he horns are like thofe 

 of an ox, are about four ells in length (fix feet eleven inches), 

 and in the thickeil part are about an ell in circumference (one 

 f.)ot nine inches). Gmelin, as is well known, favs tliat, bc- 

 fiJes bones of the mammoth, (diflerent however from thole 

 of the American mnmmoih,) heads with horns of an extra- 

 ordinary fize are iometimes found in Siberia. He hinifelf 

 carried with him to Pcterlburgh a head of this kind, which 

 in all probability is (till prefer^-cd in the c.ibinet of curiofities 

 belonging to the Academy of Sciences. It will be inlerefi- 

 ing to natural hiftorv to compare this head with the one lately 

 found, in order to afcertain whether they belong to the lame 

 (pecies of animal. At any rate, thei'e heads feem to atlord a 

 new ])roof, in ojipofiiiDn to the opinion ot Daubcnton, But- 

 foii, and (jther natui;;li(ls, that there exilled formerly fpecies 

 of animals now become exlinit. 



* AL;oui one y.nii Hx inches. 



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