448 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
2. A wonderful specimen of credulous ignorance ;—Fossil man aud 
woman.—A Cincinnati paper of March 23, contains a narration of the 
discovery of some ‘** very curious petrified human bodies” found in 
Pennsylvania in the bed of a stream, which is one of the branches of. — 
the nr Wh river, The account says: ‘These remains are sup-_ 
posed to ose of a man and woman, who by the wonderful petri- 
factive ‘aoe have been turned to solid ‘stone,” and they are regarded 
as “ irrefragible proofs of the existence of man upon this revolving 
globe long before the pepode wan commis, oe — trilobites first 
made their appearance.” * But ‘the man is the great curiosity 
Its feet are now wanting ; its bod y and legs are prear 
stone, and its head of quartz and gneiss”! Thus, according to the 
narrator, the whole science of geology is upset, over and over. The 
writer continues, * It is assumed that when first found the feet were on 
this male petrifaction, but as they seemed slaty and of a coal-like tex- 
ture, they were burned by the women, who prefer utility to scientific 
discovery.” * * * “It is certain the man when alive must have 
inhabited the sone for a period, and if, as we think is evident, he 
was buried with his head downwards, and at just such a depth that his 
eae came in the patie: and his body in the sandstone formation, [he 
. Osrtuary.—otice of the late Frederic W. Davis of Boston —We 
have to record the death of one - our excellent practical chemists and 
metallurgists, Freperic W. Davis of Boston, who died at his father’s 
house of typhoid fever’on the 12th of December last, at ihe age of 31 
years. Mr. I)avis received a good education at the school of Mr. Green 
of Jamaica Plains in Roxbury, and was then placed under the scientific 
instruction of Dr. Charles T. Jackson, in whose laboratory he pursued 
his studies with great diligence and success, for three years. 
he accompanied Dr. Jackson in his early explorations of the copper re- 
gions of Lake Superior and distinguished himself as an e's and 
and ae the crude copper rere he found time to suki many inter- 
esting and important metallurgical researches, and manf scientific ob- 
servations and experiments on the formation of artificial ce both 
in the furnace and in the roasting heaps ofc copper ores. >a 
a new mineral, composed of the su sulphurets of zinc and copper, which 
was found i in ony tee ys crystals in the roasted ores. He pointed 
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