Miscellaneous Intelligence. 8'.) 



7)i the Hading* Sand.— Lonchopteris Mantelli. (Pecoptevis reticulata.) 

 Sphenopteris Mantelli.- Clathraria Lyellii. 



In the Green Sand.— Many species of Fucoides. F. Targionii, strictus, et 

 Brardii. Zosterites. Cycadites Nilsonii. 



In the Chalk. (Craie.)— Nothing determinable in regard to terrestrial 

 plants. Confervites, fucoides rares. 



In the Plastic Argil, Red Sand Stone, and Lignites. (Argill Plastique 

 Milasse et Legnites.)— Palmse, probably of the geneus Cocos, &c. Conifera: 

 of the genera Pinus, Thuya, Taxus, &c. Amentaceae, Acerinese, Juglandea:, 

 and other dicotyledontreis arborescent. 



In tlie Coarse Lime Stone, (Calcaire Grossier.) Palmse (rare). Conifera; 

 (rare). Pinus Defranchii, Dicotyledonous leaves very frequently. Nume- 

 rous fucoides at Mount Bolca. 



In the (Terrain 



d'eau Douce, Gypseux ou Paleotherien.) Chara Lemani. Palmae. Flabel- 

 laria Lamanonis. Coniferae. Pinus pseudo-strobus. Taxites Toumalii, &c. 

 Amentaceae, Carpinus ; Betula and other dicotyledons. 



In the siqjerior sea formations. (Terrain maria superieur.) Pinus Cor- 

 tesii ; rare and little known plants. 



In the superior fresh water formation. (Terrain d'eau Douce superieur.) 

 Chara medicaginula. Nymphea. 



Australia.—" The Society has received from the Admiralty, in the course 

 of the present session, a small collection of specimens, from the site of the 

 intended settlement in the vicinity of Swan River, on the west coast of 

 Australia; and Captain Stirling, before his departure from England, in the 

 rapacity of its governor, was good enough to place in my hands some briet 

 notes relating to thera, which I shall take an early opportunity of laying 

 before the Society From the zeal expressed by that distinguished officer, 

 we may regard this contribution as an earnest of what may be expected 

 hereafter from the colony under his superintendence: and having already 

 received from the eastern shores of Australia enough to prove the resem- 

 blance of the rocks to ours, and even to point out the relative position and 

 structure of the formations on some points of the coast, we may with reason 

 expect the solution of some of the great questions respecting that region, 

 which still are undetermined. It is remarkable, for example, that no traces 

 have yet been descried of any active volcano along the whole circuit of those 

 shores ; although the latitudes nearer to the equator, and under nearly the 

 same meridians, are the scenes of some of the most tremendous volcanic 

 phenomina on record. The mode in which the waters condensed upon 

 the vast continent of Australia are disposed of,— whether by evaporation 

 from inland seas or lakes, or conducted to the ocean by rivers, whose exist- 

 ence has hitherto escaped detection, is another great question connected in 

 all probability with its geological structure. But there is no subject of 

 greater interest to us, at present, than the fossil organised remains of that 

 country ; a knowledge of which, especially the remains of animals, will be 

 an addition of capital importance to our subject, and probably not less valu- 

 able to the zoologist. The diluvium, therefore, respecting which we have 

 at present no information whatever, is deserving of the greatest attention ; 

 and since the existing races of Australian animals are so widely different 

 from those of every other portion of the earth, the identity, on the one. 

 hand, of these animals with those occurring in a fossil state, would lead to 

 some of the most important inferences ; while, on the other, the agreement 

 of the fossil remains of Australia with the existing races of other regions, 

 now disjoined from that country, would give new support to some of the. 

 most popular speculations of our day. With a view to these enquiries, 

 scarcely any thing that can be collected by our fellow-labourers in that 

 quarter, will be without interest to their friends in Europe. — Speech of Hit 

 President of the Geological Society of London. 



ZOOLOGY. 



Native* of Australia— The native Australians have certainly but slender 



claims to what we are accustomed to term personal beauty. The head i- 



large, out of proportion to the size of the body, and the disproportion i- 



: irthei increased by the quantity of frizzled hair with which it is covered, and 



raluiut of which is increased by an addition of grease and ochri - 



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