164 T. E. Clark on Fichteliie of North Bawavié. 
_ Ihave given no names to these last two reptiles, notwithstand- 
ing their great interest, as their remains were not sufficiently 
their specific or generic characters. ‘To add names to parts of 
animals, unless the remains are very characteristic, can only 
Art, XVIL—Fichtelite, a fossil carbo-hydrogen found in the “ Fich- 
telgebirge” of North Bavaria; by T, Epwarps CLARK, Ph.D.* 
which I obtained for analysis through the kindness of Professor : 
4 : 
Liebig, was collected by Mr. Schmidt, apothecary in Wunsiedel. 
Near the neighboring town of Redwitz are beds of turf several 
e greater portion of this is pine wood, which is so little 
changed after lying in these turf beds for certainly hundreds of 
ears, that, to all appearance, except that it has become quite 
The other woods found in these turf beds are in a much worse 
remains of birches (Betula alba), 
, tion. The : 
alders (Alnus glutinosa), and hazlenut (Corylus avellana), a7@ 
quite numerous. The same species exist at present in the neigh- 
borh It is in this pine wood, which is still growing so plen- 
tifully as to give a name to the mountains of Nort Bavaria 
(Fichtelgebirge), that this fossil resin is found. It occurs print 
ly in the form of shining scales between the annual mi0g 
Rae ey of re pore first appeared in the “ Annalen der Chemie und Phar 
August, 1857. 
+ Annalen i. Physik u. Chemie, vol. lix, p. 55. 
