Lizard.—Fossil Tree.—Fossil Plants. one 
paste a circular piece of tin foil about ten inches in diameter. 
On the other side fix a narrow circle of tin foil to correspond with 
the outside of the opposite coating : cover the intermediate space 
with a regular coating of bronze, which is not required to be very 
thickly laid on; place it on a pedestal, and connect the tin foil 
coating with the ground and the insulated ball. Now charge it 
by means of a bent wire fixed on the end of the conductor and 
touching the centre of the bronzed coating: then move the ball 
to the conductor, and the whole surface will be covered with the 
most beautiful ramifications diverging from the centre to the cir- 
cumference. 
Lichtenberg figures may be formed on a paper tea-tray. 
They take quite a different character, but more beautiful. Per— 
haps they might be fixed by warming the japan. PRroreus. 
LIVE LIZARD FOUND IMBEDDED IN A SEAM OF COAL.—FOSSIL 
TREE.—FOSSIL PLANTS. 
Wakefield, Noy. 7, 1818. 
Sir,—The following particulars respecting a live lizard found 
imbedded in a seam of coal at Mr. Fenton’s colliery about two 
miles from this town, may be interesting to yourself and readers. 
This auimal, preserved in spirits, is now in the possession of Mr. 
James Scholes, engineer to that colliery. It is about five inches 
long ; its back of a drawn brown color, and appears rough and 
scaly; its sides of a lighter colour, and spotted with yellow ; 
the belly yellow streaked with bands of the same colour as the 
back. Mr.S.related to me the following circumstances of its being 
found.—In August last they were sinking a new pit or shaft, and 
after passing through measures of stone, grey bind, blue stone, 
and some thin beds of coal, to the depth of 150 yards, they came 
upon that intended to be worked, which is about four feet thick. 
When they had excavated about three inches of it, one of the 
miners (as he supposed) struck his pick or mattock intoa crevice, 
and shattered the coal around into small pieces: he then disco- 
vered the animal in question, and immediately carried it up to 
Mr. S.—It continued very brisk and lively for about ten minutes, 
then drooped and died. Mr. 8S. went down the pit to examine 
the part where it might be supposed to be lodged, but he could 
not collect any fragments to enable him to ascertain its precise 
bed. 
It may be proper to mention, that in sinking these pits they 
find, in particular strata, impressions of what Mr. S. calls ferns 
and other vegetables; and at upwards of 100 yards from the sur- 
face, they meet with a black shale one foot thick, full of muscle- 
shells compressed and flattened by the superincumbent pressure. 
About 
