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greater resistance than would be presented by the root, stems, and 
leaves of lacustrine plants. 
The author is inclined to believe that, like the Elephant, the 
Dinotherium used its tusks as offensive and defensive weapons, and 
especially to break down and to hold up branches, so as to enable it 
to reach with its trunk the tender growths of the trees, which were 
probably its food ; and that they further served to effect a passage 
through the underwood of dense forests. The neck of the animal 
was very short ; and the trunk must have been of great length, and 
was used, probably, for putting the young into the pouch, as well as 
for getting food.—R. T. 
PHOTOGRAPHY APPLIED TO PatmonTotucy. (Specimen Photographicum Anima- 
lium quorumdam Plantarumque Fossilium Agri Veronensis. Dr. A. B. Prof. 
- Massatoneo deseripsit. Mavrrrrus Lorzm photographice expressit.) 4to. p. 101. 
40 plates. Verona, 1859. 
N this work Professor Massalongo has described, and M. Lotze 
photographed, 2 species of Ophidia, 12 Fishes, and 8 Acoty- 
ledonous, 2 Monocotyledonous, and 23 Dicotyledonous Plants. The 
descriptions of the genera and species are given in Italian and Latin 
in parallel columns. ‘The specimens described are all from the rich 
Eocene deposit of Monte Bolea, abounding in Fish- and Plant- 
remains, and from which some fossil Snakes have also been obtained. 
The delicate cream-coloured matrix offers such a strong contrast to 
the bright rich iron-stained fossil-remains that a better series to 
submit to the art of the photographer could hardly have been 
chosen. Every minute bone in the skeleton, and every fin-ray of 
the Fishes can be clearly seen; but the Snakes do not print at all 
well, little more than a black outline of their forms being preserved. 
Among the Fishes: Platax Plinianus, Massal., Semiphorus velifer, 
Agass., 2 sp. of Acanthurus, Scatophagus frontalis, Agass., Ephip- 
pus longipennis, Agass., Pychnodus gibbus, Agass., and among the 
vegetable remains, Araucarites Venetus, Massal., Getonia Bolcensis, 
Ung., Sterculia prisca, Massal, and 2 sp. of Dombeyopsis, are ex- 
cellently reproduced. Some of the leaves and other plant-remains are 
not so satisfactory, and we must still admit our preference for good 
lithographic plates. 
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On THE GEOLOGICAL PosITION AND AGE OF THE FULINT-IMPLE- 
MENT-BEARING BEDS, AND ON THE LOESS OF THE SOUTH-EAST 
or ENGLAND AND NortTH-WEST OF France. By JosepH PREstT- 
wicn, F.R.S., F.G.S. (From the Philosophical Transactions, 
Pt. I. 1864.) 
| eS the earlier days of the study of Geology in this country, the 
attention of observers was, as might have been expected, prin- 
cipally directed to the vast successive formations of which the crust 
of the earth is composed, in order to establish the stratigraphical 
relation of the various beds, and to determine the nature of the 
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