430 Miscellanies. 
11. Important Work.—The work on Fossil Organic Remains, 
by Professor August Goldfuss, M. D., of the Prussian Univ. of Bonn, 
will be soon translated from the German, by Prof. Gerard Troost, 
M. D., of the Univ. of Nashville, Tenn. ; to nop he will add his 
own Notes on the Organic Remains of ‘Tennesse 
knowledge of fossil Organic Remains is sadly to the 
seerdy of Geology. No country is richer in these remains than the 
western part of the United States. I collected (says Prof. — 
large numbers of them during my geological excursions, but fou 
many difficulties in becoming acquainted with my acquisitions. The 
zoological works in my possession did not afford me much ream 
and 1 began to despair of surmounting these obstacles, when I be- 
came acquainted with the work of Doctor Goldfuss. [read it with 
delight. I found it an excellent guide, and with it many of my for- 
mer difficulties vanished. In my leisure moments I commenced a 
translation of it, at first merely to assist such of the students of our 
University as had a desire to become intimately acquainted with that 
part o Natural History ; but being in correspondence with its learned 
author, and accomplished editor, Mr. Arntz, of Dusseldorf, these 
gentlemen politely engaged to furnish me the original plates, and 
thus enable me to publish an English translation, if a sufficient num- 
ber of subscribers could be obtained. 
The Bulletin Dalene of M. de Ferrusac,* says, “ The under- 
taking of Dr. Goldfuss is certainly one of the most interesting con- 
tributions that ive lately been made to science. Placed at the head 
of a rich cabinet, having at his disposal the collection of Mr. Hoen- 
inghaus, a zealous and Jaborious naturalist, Dr. G. had it in bis pow- 
er to make us acquainted with the greatest part of the fossils of a 
country celebrated for the abundance and interest of the Organic 
Remains which are found in its formations. The plates and draw- 
ings are certainly the best that have been produced in any country, 
exact in the most minute details, without injuring the harmony o the 
ensemble. 
Dr. G.’s figures are all original ; not one is borrowed, except to 
complete a defective specimen. The text, he says, will give only 
explanations of the figures : he reserves the observations and devel- 
opments which may interest Zoology and Foalogy for another time.: 
but the author has done more than he promises 
The text a the figures of each plate, which are arranged in 
genera. The name of the genus is followed by a synonym, and by 
a short chasseceeitic phrase in German and Latin, and geological 
and geographical notices are subjoined. The first part, which was 
published in 1826, contains POLYPIFERS: the second part is 
pronounced by the Bulletin to be the most magnificent work on Nat- 
ural History that has ever made its appearance in lithography. 
* Paris, 1827; No. 12, page 399. 
