362 Miscellanies. 



sides, are appended. Among them, it is sufficient to mention the 

 names of Sig. Belti, Professor of Physiology ; Sig. Zannetti, Pro- 

 fessor of Human Anatomy ; and Dr. Gazzeri, Professor of Chem- 

 istry. 



England. — W 



of birds in the strata of Tilgate Forest^ Sussex, 

 ) are informed, in a letter from London, dated June 

 23, 1835, that Dr. Mantell had then recently communicated to the 

 Geological Society of London, a paper on the remains of birds found 



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that years since, he 



had ventured to assert, that the thin bones found in the sandstone of 

 Tilgate forest, belonged to birds, and not to Pterodactyles. Although 

 this opinion has been controverted by some eminent geologists, the 

 recent discovery of a metatarsal bone has placed the matter beyond 

 all doubt, and although the bone is in mere fragments, yet certain 

 characters are preserved, which prove that it belonged to some spe- 

 cies of wader. There is an oval cavity, In such a situation in the 

 bone, as to prove that it was intended for the attachment of the bone 

 of the hind toe or thumb, and the high position of it shows, that the 

 bird belonged to those which frequent marshes, and require a long 

 hind toe- 



6. Specimens from Dr. Mantell. — With a very ample collection 

 of the fossils of the chalk and other connected formations, from Pr. 

 Mantell, (which, with several previous donations from him of the 

 same kind, afford us the means of fully understanding that poition of 

 English geology,) w^e have recently received 



1. A model of a tibia of the Iguanodon, from Tilgate forest. 



2* Two models of teeth of the Deinotheriura. 



3. (The gigantic tapir of Cuvier.) 



4. Model of the head of the Dodo In the Ashmolean Museum of 

 Oxford. 



Having heretofore, received a model of the femur and knee of the 

 Iguanodon, with the vertebrae, ribs, teeth, spines, fcc. we are in a con- 

 dition to appreciate the peculiar characters, and especially the colossal 

 dimensions of that stupendous reptile* The bones were like timber, 



♦ Situated below the chalk j this is not so low as the Stonesfield slate, near Ox- 

 ford, in which bones of birds have been found ; but the geological position of the 

 tracks described in our present No. bv Professor Hitchcock, is much lower than 



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