238 Calendar of Flora, Fauna, and Pomona. 



PRETENDED FOSSIL MAN AND HORSE. 



Last year we had our mermaid: it is now the turn of our 

 neighbours. — An attempt has been made to impose on the 

 public credulity at Paris, by the exhibition of the pretended 

 fossil remains of an ante-diluvian man and horse. M. Barruel, 

 one of the dupes by whom it was at first sanctioned, now keeps 

 silence, and neither defends nor disavows his original opinion. 

 M. Huot has discussed the questions arising from the inspec- 

 tion of these stony masses, in a pamphlet, intitled " Notice 

 geologique stir le pretendu fossile humain, trouve pres de Morel, 

 au lieu dit le Long-Rocher (Seine et Mame)." 



LEARNED SOCIETIES AT CAEN. 



A Society of Antiquaries of Normandy has just been esta- 

 blished at Caen, where there is also a Linnaean Society for the 

 study of natural history. 



LECTURES. 



On Monday, October 4-th, Dr. Pearsons Medical Lectures, 

 and on Tuesday, October 5th, Mr.Brande's Chemical Lectures, 

 will commence, at 9 o'clock in the morning, at No. 9, George- 

 street, Hanover-square. 



Calendar of Flora, Fauna, and Pomona, at Hartfield in Sussex, 

 continued from August 14 to September 14. 



Aug. 14. — Swifts (Hirundines apodes) still very numerous, 

 whirling round in aerial gyrations and screaming. The small 

 meteors called falling stars very common this evening. 



Au». 19. — The last Swift seen: these birds have been mi- 

 grating ever since the 14th, and are now all gone. Showery. 



Aug. 22. — The Sunflower {Helianthus annuus) is in flower in 

 a neighbour's garden : with me this plant has failed, the young 

 plants, together with many China Asters and African Mari- 

 golds, having been devoured by the numerous vermin that 

 have swarmed this season in unwonted numbers. 



Aug. 28. — Weather hot with variable breezes. 



Sept. 3. — We have as yet seen no wasps : it is therefore 

 probable there will be none this year. In 1821 they were 

 particularly numerous, several hundreds of nests having been 

 destroyed in one Week ; and for the last four or five years they 

 have been very plentiful from the end of August through Sep- 

 tember. 



Sept. 4. — Weather cooler and showery. I travelled to 

 Dover, and noticed swallows and martins to be very numerous. 



Sept. 5. — Crossed the Channel to Calais ; weather fine : a 



remarkable 



