218 Miscellanies. 



which, with the bordering edges of dark iron, and (apparently) sul- 

 phate of barytes, winds its way, in the most delicate flexions, through 

 the sober ground work of the lias, and forms a picture, not unlike 

 that of the ramifications of a great Delta, whose bright waters inoscu- 

 late and cross in many mazes, dividing the territory into innumerable 

 islands. It is not easy for an observer to persuade himself that these 

 tables are natural pictures ; the first impression is, that they are a 

 kind of mosaic work. 



24. Fossil Jaws of the Tapir. — Extract of a letter from Gideon Mantell, Esq., 

 late of Lewes, now of Brighton, England, to the Editor, dated Jan. 1834. 



"They have found two perfect lower jaws of the tapir at Darmstadt ; strange 

 to tell, it had two tusks at the anterior extremity of the lower jaws, and which 

 point downwards. Was ever any thing so extraordinary : they must have been 

 intended to enable the animal to grub up bulbous and tuberose roots from under 

 the wattled fibrous roots of a forest !" 



25. Chalk and chalk fossils in granite. — Extract of a letter to the Editor from 

 Prof. Leonhard, of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, dated 29th Jan. 1834. 



" I have performed recently a geological tour in Bohemia and Saxony, and have 

 observed a multitude of interesting facts ; among other things at Meissen upon 

 the Elbe, fragments of chalk full of petrifactions — imbedded in granite." 



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26. Obituary. — Died at Bethlehem, Pa., (the place of his birth,) early in Febru- 

 ary last, the Rev. Lewis D. De Schweinitz, the secular head of the Moravian So- 

 ciety, or Unitas Fratrum in America, aged about 52 years. Several of his early 

 years were spent in the pursuit of study in Germany, during which period he de- 

 voted considerable attention to the investigation of cryptogamous plants. After 

 his return to this country, the confidence of his brethren gave him an ecclesiasti- 

 cal charge in one of the Moravian settlements in North Carolina. "While on that 



station, he employed a part of his time in studying and arranging the fungi of that 

 region. 



His various scientific publications are in great esteem among the learned, and 

 justly entitle him to an eminent place among the botanists of his time. A list of 

 his works, so far as we are acquainted with them, is given below. 



He was indefatigable in the discharge of duties, conscientious and consistent on 

 the subject of religion, and persevering in every description of study. His loss 

 will not be less regretted by those who had the advantage of knowing him as a 

 friend and companion, than in his more public character, in which it will be long 

 and deeply felt both by the Moravian Church and by the friends of science. 



Conspectus Fungorum in agro Niskiensi crescentium ; socio J. B. ab Albertini, 

 Lipsise, 1805. 8vo. 



Specimen Florae American Septentrionalis Cryptogamica*, 8vo. Raleigh, N. C. 

 1821. 



Monography of the North American species of the Linneean genus Viola, Am. 

 Jour, of Science, Vol. 5. p. 48-81. 1822. 



A Monograph of the N. A. species of Carex, Annals of the N.Y. Lye. Vol. h 

 p. 283—373. 1825. 



Synopsis Fungorum in America Boreali media degentium. Trans, of Amer. 

 Phil. Soc. for 1832.— Poulson's Daily Adv. Feb. 15. 



