376 Prof. Berzelius’s Letter to the Editor. 
with species now extant—in some instances he observes a 
great similarity, if not a perfect identity. The Brongniarts 
are entitled to great credit for the zeal with which they have 
prosecuted the investigation of fossil vegetable remains—a 
branch of natural history, which until lately bas been much 
neglected, and from which we — expect the most impor- 
tant results. C. H. 
11. Analecta Entomologica.—A work with this title, « m1 
cong 104 a printed quarto pages, by John Wilh I 
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from Brazil, Sierra Leone, and various other parts of the world, 
are described, together with many other species which have 
been described in various parts of the transactions of the Royal 
Academy of sciences of Stockholm, the descriptions of which 
have al found a place in systematic works on Entomology 
The author, in his preface, apologizes for the prolixity me 
ee minuteness of his descriptions, by adverting to the confusion 
whi I 
ch has undoubtedly been occasioned in entomology by 
“an excessive ageing of axis, His descriptions are ex- 
tremely minute and clear, and evince that the sec pos- 
sesses no ordinary share of discrimination. .H 
. Extract of a letter to the Editor from Prof. Berzelius of 
Stockholm, dated July 3, 1824. 
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(1.) New variety of Orthite, and a new Adineral resembling 
Feldspar, &c. — Nothing particularly remarkable has occurred 
here in mineralogy, except, that in the midst of the city of 
Stockholm, two minerals have been discovered, one of which _ 
appears to me new, and the other is the orthite, before found 
only at Finbo near Fahlun. For the purpose of building a 
church upon one of the six islands which form our city, they 
cut down a part of a mountain in which these minerals were 
found. We afterwards discovered that they are found every 
where in the granite about Stockholm ; as yet they are not 
very numerous, but probably will, in the progress of time, 
found abundantly. In a box of minerals which [ am 
sending from Count Warzlmeister to Dr. Torrey, I have 
