Miscellaneous Intelligence. AAT 
Species, A. Mortoni.—Head about as large as that of the Lion. 
- robustum, still larger. 
Anchitherium, Meyer. eet to Paleotherium. = ~ 
Titanotherium, Leidy.— ~ Related to Palzeotherium. Species T. Proutii, 
(this Journal, 1847, iii, 248 
Paleotherium giganteum, Leidy.—Twice the size of the P. magnum. 
Rhinoceros occidentalis, Leidy.—Three-fourths as large as the R 
indicus. R. Nebrascencis, one-fourth smaller than the R. occidentalis. 
The species of Carnivora beg Weta is the Machairodus primevus, an 
animal a little smaller than the American Panther 
The plates illustrating ih, paper are admirable. " The Mauvaises Ter- 
res or Bad Lands, are situated near latitude 42° N. and longitude 26° 
west from Washington, or 103° west from Greenwic 
Al. Verd Antique Marble. The papers state that the new City 
Hall of New York is to be built of Verd Antique or Serpentine marble, 
to 40 years since, the polished slabs were used as monuments in the 
New Haven Cem metery ; and now they are as gray and rough as if rem- 
nants of Assyrian antiquity. The Vermont material is more purely a 
serpentine rock, and will not wear as unevenly. But unpolished, it is 
a dull, blackish, gloomy stone, turning brownish gray on exposure, and 
t only for a prison. It is quite time that in the selection of building ma- 
terial for public structures in the United States, some reference should 
had to the quality and fitness of the rock. The Greeks were wise | 
in so material which 2000 years have not wasted nor diminished in 
12) Mastodon.—A skeleton of a Mastodon has been recently dis- 
covered buried in a marsh about two sic from Poughkeepsie, New- 
York. Its state.of perfection is not known, as it is yet but partly ex- 
humed. This is the second skeleton cuchaed from the vicinity of this 
city. 
13. British Association.—The British Association commenced its 
er das Iridium und seine Verbindungen. Inaugural- Disser- 
SQUIEL, 
Uric OECHEA, aus Bogota. 38 pp. 8vo. Gottingen, 1854.—The author 
of Philoso feoren A ne of the pr sede a of the Platinum metals is 
st iven, in the course of w ick e observes kes the word Platina, 
which he ae to this metal, as follows: ‘ geo scito, in funduri- 
bus qui tractatus est inter Mexicum et Dariem, fodinas esse orichalci 
quod nullo i igni, wane Hispanibus artibus, pistons liquescere potuit ;” 
and also, the t notice of it in the Reldcion historica, &c. of 
Ulloa, * — la Platina (piedra de tanta resistencia que no es facil 
