will be deposited all that may in future be collected relating to the de- 
_ ceased philosopher. _ ‘ ; ebee PEs. 
16. Comet Medal, (Athen., July 18, 1846.)—A letter from Prof. 
Schumacher, says, “ The King of Denmark has offered the Comet Med: 
al (20 Dutch ducats in gold) for the best discussion of ‘Tycho’s obser- 
vations of the Comet of 1585. Prof. Gauss:is appointed judge. . The 
_ Papers must be sent.to me before July Ist, 1847, without name, dis- 
tinguished by a motto only, and the name of the author in a sealed pa- 
Per; inscribed with the same motto, You will find in No. 533 of the 
_ Astronomische Nachrichten all the information which can be required:” 
_ |. Chinese Map, (Athen., July 18, 1846.)—Amongst the articles 
_ brought from China. by the Commission who have just returned from 
. that country,—and which are exhibited at the Ministry of Commerce, 
f —1s.a map of the world, presented to the Commission. by the head 
- Mandarin of Canton. The Chinese geographer has arranged the earth 
Quite in his own way. | With him, there are. no isthmuses, no peninsu- 
las; the Isthmus of Suez is replaced by a magnificent arm of the sea, 
Which detaches itself from the Mediterranean to fall into the Red Sea. 
© see-nothing of the Isthmus of Panama, and the two seas on that 
side are connected in the same way. ‘There are neither Pyrenees nor 
Alps, and hardly are the vast mountains of America indicated. On 
__ the other hand, however,.China is liberally dealt with by the geograph- 
 &; for upon this point it occupies not: less than. three-quarters of the 
_ Whole globe.—Galignani.. S geataiens. + 
18. Mm Verneuil on the Fusulina in the Coal Formation of Ohio, (in 
letter to'the editors of the Amer. Quart. Jour. of Agriculture, iv, 166.) 
ic, have made in the carboniferous formations of Ohio a very inter- 
_ ‘Mil stone of this country, is a siliceous-band which occupies about the 
Sentral: part of the carboniferous series.. This stone is full of small 
des - CaVities; similar to. the impression due to a grain of corn oF wheat. 
These cavities, as I assured myself, have been filled by a small animal 
Of the class of the Foraminifera, which Prof. Fischer has cplled-+3 
_ Mussia, Fusulina cylindrica. You will easily understand the pleasure 
felt to find my old traveling guide. In Russia, the Fusulina pe a 
Phincipally the highest division of the carboniferous limestone, and here 
tis Confined also to the coal series; but what is the most. astonishing 
3S, that in the old.continent, the Fusulina is exclusively found in Rus- 
Sia, where it constitutes hills of two hundred feet, entirely composed of 
them, When you come to Germany or the British islands, the Fusuli- 
wanting ; and,so it had seemed to us that it was a being organi- 
IL, No. 5.—Sept 1846... 38. 
Miscellancous Intelligcnte. 993 
: esting discovery for me, as a Russian traveler. The burrh stone, or — 
a 
