166 T. E. Clark on Fichtelite from North Bavaria. 
fine work on the “Tertiary Flora of Switzerland.” He remarks 
that “the pine which Géppert describes as Pinites sylvestris, is 
evidently the same which we have in our brown coal at Utznach, 
and which is in every respect not to be distinguished from our 
living pines. The same is, true of the birches and firs. We 
have fuund very few animal remains, but these appear to belong 
to species which still exist with us.” Thus showing, as J antici 
pated, that this brown coal is of the same age as the turf beds 
of Redwitz. 
Stromeyer* was the first to call attention to the existence of a 
fossil resin found in the wood preserved in this coal bed. To 
this he gave the name Scheererite. 
Later in 1828, Kénlein,t who had charge of the working of 
this bed of coal, described a resin which he had discovered as 
early as 1822 in the stems of pines occurring in the brown coal. 
For this, not knowing that Stromeyer had already described a 
fossil resim from the same bed under the name of Scheererite, 
be but 2 degrees lower than that of Fichtelite. Macaire Princep 
accepted the name scheererite which Stromeyer had proposed. 
Further, in 1838, Krauss§ analyzed a substance which be had 
obtained from the same locality. This resin in appearance Te 
sembled scheererite, but the analysis showed it to be different 10 
composition. In this as well as in the melting point, it does not 
differ materially from the substance analyzed by Trommsdorff, 
Which was found in the turf beds of Redwitz. Schrétter, who 
considers the two identical, proposes the name Kénlite for them. 
While scheererite distills undecomposed, kinlite yields a sub- 
stance which melts by the warmth of the hand, and has a com 
position perhaps identical with that of tekoretin, which we have 
yet to notice, Krauss proposed the name pyro-scheererite for 
this latter 
Later, Haidinger|| in an article comparing the crystalline form — 
of hartite with that of what he supposed to be scheererite, 
which he had received from Utznach, remarks that the latter 
melts at 46° ©. 
Steenstrup,§ who has written considerably on the marshes 
and coal beds of Denmark, discovered in the stems of the pe 
trees, which are found in these in an almost perfect state of pres 
* Kastner’s Archiv... vol. ix, p. 113. + Ann. d, Phys, u. Chem., yol xii, p. 336. 
$ Ann. d. Phys. u. Chem, xv, p. 294. § Ann, d. Phys. u. Chem, xliii, p. 14. 
nn. d. Phys. u. Chem.. vol. liv, p. 261, 
Videnskab, Selskabs naturvid. og Math, Afhandlinger. 9 Deel., 1842. 
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