142 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
precludes its appearance in our present number, and we reserve it for 
the next. In our present brief notice we — have reference, chief; 
to our personal knowledge of Mr. Brongniar 
He early favored the senior editor of this Journal with a collection 
of materials, such as were employed by him in the manufacture of 
porcelain at the royal establishment at Sévres near Paris, of which he 
was m ears and at his death the Superintendent. It was accom- 
panied by a catalogue, in detail, descriptive not only of the specimens, 
but of the processes for preparing the materials, modelling the vessels, 
baking them in biscuit, glazing, ornamenting and enamelling; and even 
were united. One of the most interesting things in the collection, was 
a series of porcelain tablets about three inches by two, containing samples 
of the sire colors used in ornamenting porcelain; being of equal 
size, they are now framed under glass and form a beautiful picture. 
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i of Paris ner its environs, eing the res t of the examination made 
by the joint labors of Cuvier and Bivngnies upon the geology and pa- 
Jeontology of that interesting region, which resulted also in the produc- 
tion of Cuvier’s magnificent account of the fossil bones. Mr. Brong- 
niart also sent out a collection of minerals and fossils illustrative - — 
ness, as well as of science or inellige nee. pre his influent 
also, we received occasional communications from his distinguished son, 
Mr. Adolphe Brongniart, particularly portions of his great work upon 
fossil vegetables. We were ha appy to have it in our power to aid tio 
po and other SH Aree regions in Pennsylvania, the bituminous 
coal field of Zanesville in Ohio, and the erence beds of Rhode Isl- 
and; which we were happy to learn gave great satisfaction to both the 
father and son,—a satisfaction still farther augmented by the elaborate 
exhibition of the coal vegetation of Ohio, Virginia and the West gene- 
rally, in the able account of them by Dr. S. P. Hildreth, in the Amer~ 
ican Journal of Science and Arts, vol. xxix. From these and other 
similar sources of information, the identity of the coal regions of North 
America with those of Europe was fully established. The American 
taba two oes has been constantly forwarded to the Messrs. Brong- 
niart as a mark of respect, and as a return for their fine works. 
An early saoitien of the elder Brongniart was so serviceable ib our 
instruction, that i it deserves a mention on this occasion, Sc 
ago, we were struggling both to obtain and to co! 
