1815.] Scientific Intelligence. ASI 
IV. Fluo-Arseniate of Lime. t to sorkde 
_ This is a yellowish substance, which accompanies the oxide of tin 
at Finbo, near Fahlun. It is seldom got in large masses; but is 
“spread on the quartz or felspar. It is a combination of fluoric-and 
arsenic acids and lime. 
V. Gadolinite. ) Te 
Mr. Berzelius has found that all the gadolinites contain cerium, 
_and that the yttria hitherto obtained from gadolinite has not been 
‘pure, but contained cerium. He has lately discovered a method of 
_ separating the cerium from the yttria. ews 
VI. New Mass of Native Iron discovered—Blumenbach’s Arrange- 
ment of the Human Species. ae 
(To Dr. Thomson.) i 
MY DEAR SIR, “ ~ 
If you can make any use of the following notiees for the miscel- 
laneous articles of the next number of your Journal, 1 beg you will 
insert them in any manner you think proper. Being again in cor- 
respondence with Germany, I may be enabled in future to furnish 
you with other materials for that part of your publication. 
Baron Moll, of Munich, writes to me that towards the end ‘of 
‘October, 1814, a mass of nativé iron, weighing about: 200 Ibs., has 
been discovered by a shepherd at Lenarto, in the comitate of Sarosh, 
-on the declivity of a small range subordinate ‘to the Carpathian 
‘mountains. Internally it is light steel-grey, approaching to silver- 
white ; externally it is covered by a slight coat of a dark drown 
rust ; its surface is rough, uneven, and marked with impressions ; 
only three cavities are observed, which may be called cells; “but 
they are without any of the olivine-like substance which’ has been 
found within those of the Siberian native iron. The form of this 
mass is irregular and flat, as if compressed. It is of a very close 
grain, and takes an excellent polish ; its fracture is hackly in a high 
degree ; it is perfectly malleable in the cold; its solution in nitric 
acid is of a light emerald-green colour. A complete account of it 
will be given by Professor Sennowitz, at Eperies ; and a:chemical 
analysis by Dr. Schuster, of Pesth. 2H 2 
In the New Annual Register for 1818, the following notice has 
been taken of the Physionomies Nationales, published at Paris :— 
“ This tract ‘is drawn up agreeably to the system of Mr. Blumen- 
‘bach, who, in truth, has derived his ‘classification from Gemlin 
(sic), with a mere variation of the names: for ‘the five divisions 
under which the human species is enumerated by the former, we 
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mean the Caucasian, Mongul, American, Ethiopian, and Malay, 
are only the white man, brown man, red man, black man, and 
tawny man of the latter.”. Whoever is\in the least acquainted with 
the respective merits of .the two Professors: confronted in this pas- 
sage, will probably not. be disposed to believe that the celebrated 
