96 THE MICROSCOPE. 



self of the weapons which Professor Owen had 

 so skilfully wielded, he has commenced a series 

 of researches not^only into the teeth, but also 

 into the structure of the hard-enamelled bones 

 of the Eussian fossil-fish, and by which he will 

 be enabled to show the same distinctions in the 

 other bones of the different genera of this class, 

 which Professor Owen has so successfully esta- 

 blished in relation to the bones of the higher 

 orders of animals." In proof of the justice of 

 such an expectation, Sir B. Murchison calls 

 special attention to three diagrams in his great 

 work, Russia, representing the distinctive osteo- 

 logical characters of the remarkable genera, 

 Gfyptosteus, Chelonichthys, and Psammolepis. 1 

 Well might Owen declare, while such disco- 

 veries were made by the Microscope, that it 

 was indispensable to the Palaeontologist. 



(4.) A few weeks ago, some fossil remains 

 of a large animal were discovered near to the 

 shore of Stirling. They were embedded in clay 

 at the depth of eight or ten feet from the sur- 

 face of the ground, at the distance of two or 

 three hundred yards from the Forth, and not 



1 Murchison's Russia, vol. i. p. 67 ; plate ii. 7, 8, 9. 



