. 3 826.] Scientific "NoHces — Zoology, 305 



6. New Analysis of Dioptase. 

 The former analyses of Vauquelin and Lovvitz, differ widely 

 from the following results now obtained by Vauquelin. 



Vauquelin. Vauquelin, 



Lowitz. 1st analysis. 2(1 analysis. 



Silex 33 28-57 43-181 



Carbonic acid. 18*67 



Lime 24-18 



Ox. of copper. 55 28-58 45-455 



Water 12 11-364 



100 100-00 100-000 



Vauquelin's second analysis was made up by decigrammes. 

 — (Edin. Jour, of Science.) 



Zoology. 

 7. Fossil Deer of Ireland.* 



Since the publication of our last number, a very fine and per- 

 fect skeleton of this animal has been placed in the Museum of 

 the Royal Dubhn Society. For this very desirable addition to 

 zoology, we are indebted to the liberality and love of science of 

 the Rev. Archdeacon Maunsell, and the skill and anatomical 

 knowledge of Mr. Hart, Member of the College of Surgeons in 

 this city, by whom a memoir on the subject has been published, 

 from which we make the following extracts. Archdeacon 

 Maunsell, in his communication to the Royal Dublin Society, 

 gives the following account of the situation in which these bones 

 were found : — 



" The valley in which the remains were found contains about 

 twenty plantation acres, and the soil consists of a stratum of 

 peat about a foot thick, and immediately under this a stratum 

 of shell marl, varying from 1^ to 2^ feet in thickness; in this 

 many of the shells retain their original colour and figure, and 

 are not marine ; under the marl there is a bed of light blue clay, 

 through this one of my workmen drove an iron rod, in several 

 places, twelve feet deep, without meeting opposition. Most of 

 the bones and heads, eight in number, were found in the marl ; 

 many of them, however, appeared to rest on the clay, and to be 

 merely covered by the marl. The remains were disposed in such 

 a manner as to prevent the possibility of ascertaining the exact 

 component parts of each skeleton ; in some places portions were 

 found removed many yards from others, and in no instance were 

 two bones found lying close to each other. Their position also 

 was singular ; in one place two heads were found, with the 

 antlers entwined in each other, and immediately under them a 

 large blade bone ; in another, a very l-arge head was discovered, 



• See Annals for June, 1825. 



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