438 Scientific Intelligence. 
W. Mantell, and now in the British Museum, were from the ~~ 
iron-sand near the mouth of the river Wain ngongoro. e from 
Waikouaiti in the Middle Island, were imbedded in a morass “of small 
extent, and which is exposed only at low water. This swamp is com- 
posed of vegetable fibres, sand and animal matter ; it seems to hay 
been originally a morass in which the Phormium tenax, or New 
land flax, grew luxuriantly. ‘The bones are literally a and so. 
7 
The most extraordinary relics are the entire series of bones (twenty- 
six in number) of the feet and shanks of the same individual Dinornis: 
robustus, found standing erect, the one about a yard in advance of tk 
other, as if the bird had been thiked; and unable to oie a had 
perished on the spot. They were dug up and carefully nu ; 
seriatim, and are now articulated like a recent cleus! This | is the 
ell: of Ireland, the last of the Moas was exterminated by human agenc y 
yet it is probable that a ah in physical conditions, had prepared for 
their final annihilation. Of the organic law ee ch determines the 
Ill. Zoonoey. 
1. Supplementary ie en on the Structure of the Belemnite and 
Belemnot euthis; by Gipron Atcernon Manrett, Esq., LL.D., F. 
Vice President of the Geological Society, dc. (Proc. Royal Society, 
February 14, 1850.)—In this communication the author describes his : 
recent investigations on the structure of the two genera of fossil Ceph- 
alopoda, whose remains occur so abundantly in the Oxford clay of Wilt- 
shire, namely, the Belemnite and Belemnoteuthis, as supplementary to 
his memoir on the same subject, published in the Phil. Trans., 1 
In that paper evidence was adduced to show the correctness of the 
opinion of the late Mr. Channing Pierce, as to the generic distinction of 
these two extinct forms of Cephalopoda. 
