Fossil Animal Remains. — Zoogevei ,65 



FOSSIL ANIMAL REMAINS. 



Ill making some further excavations lately in caverns in the 

 vicinity of Breuge, in the department of Lot, the workmen laid 

 open a depository of bones, some of horses ; some of the rhino- 

 ceros, of the same species of which fossil fragments have been 

 found in this country, in Germany, and in Siberia; and others 

 belonging to a species of stag, now a non-descript, witii horns 

 pretty much resembling those of a young rein-deer. They were 

 collected, and presented to the Academy of Sciences, by M. Ca- 

 ▼ier, and are now in the King's cabinet. 



MINERAL ANIMAL MATTER. — ZOOGENE. 



Sig, Carlo di Gimbernat has discovered a peculiar substance 

 in the thermal waters of Baden and of Ischia, of which he gives 

 the following description in the Givrnale di Fisica : — "This 

 substance covers, like an integument, many rocks in the valleys of 

 Senagalla and Negropoute at the foot of the celebrated Epomeo, 

 beneath which mountain the poets confine Typhon, It is re- 

 markable that in this very place should be found a substance very 

 similar to skin and human flesii. One portion of this mountain 

 that was found covered with this substance, measured 45 feet in 

 length by 2 J in height. It yielded, by distillation, an empyreumatic 

 oil ; and, by boiling, a gelatine, which would have sized paper. I 

 obtained the same results at Baden. It may therefore be con- 

 sidered as confirmed that an animal principal is present in these 

 thermal springs, which licing evaporated becomes condensed in 

 their neighbourhood. To this principle I have given the name 

 of " Zoogene." 



The Editors of the Glorn. Fls. state that they have seen the 

 substance obtained by M. Gimbernat, and that externally it has 

 the appearance of real flesh covered with skin. 



M. FAUJAS SAINT FOND S MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY AND NATURAL 

 HISTORY. 



M. Rarthelemy Faujas Saint Fond, Professor of Geology, and 

 one of the Adminisiratprs of the Royal Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, died last summer at Paris. This gcnflenian was well knowu 

 by his various interesting memoirs on geology and other branches 

 of science, and by his travels through Scotland. His passionate 

 attachment to science induced him to cxj)end an ample fortune 

 in forming a geological museum, and by his numerous travels 

 and unceasing efforts he succeeded in ol)taining a most interest- 

 ing collection, which was sold by public auction at his house ad- 

 joining the Jurdin dcs Plantes, in the last month (December), 

 m. Faujas is well known to liave devoted a considerable share of 

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