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It is said that this immense work has been undertaken for the purpose of 
reaching a large stratum of common salt. 
25. Native gold is reputed to have been found in South Australia in a 
shaft undertaken for the discovery of copper ore.—Athen. 
OsITvaRY. 
26. T. Monticelli, (from the Address by T. Horner Esq. before the 
Geol. Soc. London, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., No. 6, p. 146.) —THeopore 
Monricetu1 of Naples, the Foreign Member whom we have lost, was 
born in 1759, in the celebrated city of Brundusium, the modern Brin- 
disi. He was educated in the Benedictine College at Rome, in which 
Chiaramonte, afterwards Pius VII, was then professor, and where he 
made so much progress in his mathematical: studies as to be able, while 
m; a 
to be employed with others in the re-establishment of the University 
ademy of Sciences of Naples, of which latter body he was 
eruption of that year, which he dedicated to Sir Humphry Davy, with 
whom he was intimately acquainted; and Davy, during his residence 
at Naples some years afterwards, studied the structure and phzenomena 
of Vesuvius under his guidance. Some years afterwards Monticelli 
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and in 1825, in conjunction with Covelli, his ‘ Prodromo della att 
vorite Pozzuoli, and in the month of October, when a few friends bad 
assembled to celebrate his 87th birthday, he was seized at dinner with 
apoplexy, which terminated his life. ; bel. 
27. M. Aimé.—The French papers mention the death of M, Aimé, a 
young scientific gentleman of distinction, and director of the Observatory 
hile proceeding to Medeah to establish an observatory at 
at Algiers, .1 
