136 Mr. H.E. Strickland on the Dodo and its Kindred. 
STENOPORA. . 
scabra (Rafin. sp.). Favosites id., Kon. Anim. Foss. Belg. 
C. Sl. Hook ; Clonea; Currens. 
Srrombopses (Lithostrotion, Lonsd.). 
emarciatum (Lonsd. sp.), Geol. Russ. and Ural. C. L. Derbyshire. 
VINCULARIA,. 
dichotoma (M‘Coy), Syn. Carb. Foss. . Palast te 
megastoma (M‘Coy), Syn. Carb, Foss. U. L. Killymeal. 
raricostata (M‘Coy), Syn. Carb. Foss. U. L. Killymeal, Dungannon. 
XIV.—Supplementary Notices regarding the Dodo and its Kindred. 
Nos. 1,2,3. By H. E. Srricxianp, M.A., F.G.S. 
One of the main objects which Dr. Melyille and myself had in 
view, in publishing our recent work on the Dodo and its Kindred, 
was to draw the attention of others to this interesting historico- 
physical investigation, and thus to elicit from all quarters such 
additional items of information as had escaped our own research, 
Many a curious scrap of Dodo-knowledge is doubtless still buried 
in the holes and corners of libraries, museums, and picture-gal- 
leries, and many a precious bone-fragment still moulders in the 
caverns and alluvions of the Mascarene Islands. Already, in the 
short interval since our publication saw the light, have several 
important links been added to the chain of evidence there dis- 
played,—partly through the kind diligence of our friends, and 
partly by our own more recent researches. These supplementary 
facts I propose to communicate from time to time to the ‘ Annals 
of Natural History! 
1. Historical evidence of the Dodo.—I grieve to be obliged to 
record that Oxford, the cradle of so much learning, now stands 
convicted of having been the grave, not of one Dodo (as was 
hitherto supposed), but of rwo. A small dingy MS. yolume has 
lately been purchased by the fellows of Queen’s College, Oxford 
(I dare not say at what price), from Mr. Rodd the bookseller. This 
precious but unattractive little book is the original autograph 
- diary of Thomas Crossfield, once fellow of Queen’s, and extends 
over fourteen years, from 1626 to 1640. Amidst a yariety of 
matters, some of historical interest, and others “ of no importance 
to any but the owner,” we find the following curious passage, 
which was first detected, and kindly communicated to me, by the 
Rey. Dr. Bliss. ; 
Page 68. “1634. Spectacula Oxonii in hoc anno, 
1. The Palsgraves Family. 
2. His mates Hokus Pokus. 
3. Dancing vpon the rope. 
4. Hierusalem in its glory, destruction. 
