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teeth it evidently appears, that the animal to which they be- 

 Jonged muft in bulk have been equal at lead to the hippo- 

 potamus, or perhaps to the elephant. It is not known ^vhere 

 thefe two portions of the jaw were found ; they are in part 

 incrufted withiand. 



C Lafteyrie, who is now travelling through the north of 

 Europe, has addrefied a letter to the Society on the intro- 

 duftion of the fine-woolled breed of iheep into the cold coun- 

 tries. Near Leyden and Haarlem, in Holland, he obferved 

 that the climate, though damp, does not prevent the breed 

 of the Spanilh flieep from thriving. He faw the fourth ge- 

 neration of thefe animals, bred in the country, which had as 

 fine wool as the Spanifh (heep, though both the foil and the 

 climate were in appearance very unfavourable to the conftitu-» 

 tion of thefe animals. In another letter he fays he found the 

 fame fuccefs in Denmark and Sweden, and even in the moft 

 northern parts of thefe two countries, where that breed have 

 exifted for many years. He mentions in particular, that the 

 Danifli government, two years ago, fent ^br three hundred 

 Spanifh fheep, only one of which has died in the courfe of 

 that time motwithftanding the fevere cold of the lad winter. 



In the annual fitting on the loth of January C. Sylvefter 

 made a report of the labours of the Society during the year. 

 At the fame time 



C. Lacroix read the eulogy of Borda, and C. Coquebert 

 that of Bloch. 



BRITISH MINERALOGICAL SOCIETV. 



This Society has juft circulated the following notice of iti 

 proceedings : 



*' It is now fome months fince public notice was given of 

 the inftitution of the Britifli Mineralogical Society ; one of 

 the principal objefts of which is, the gratuitous analyfis of 

 fuch of our native minerals as may be fent to the Society by 

 miqe-owners, or othet perfons who are interefted in the in- 

 quiry. The Society's firft meetings were neceflarily much 

 occupied in cftablifhing arrangements for the mod effeftual 

 attainment of its own defigns and thofe of its correfpondents. 

 ^oth thefe objects have, wc truft, been fatisfa^lorily provided 



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