380 Reviews — Museum Mumfredianum. 



of the Geological Magazine has suggested that it would be 

 worth while to print here a few entries as an illustration of the 

 matter that interested the scientific, and awed the vulgar, in those 

 days, I have therefore selected and subjoin a few of the items 

 contained in this curious work.^ The original Catalogue will 

 eventually find a home in the British Museum (Natural History) : — 



A very curious specimen of the bark of a tree in coal slate, from 



Yorkshire. 

 An exceedingly fine and large Oriental long devil. 

 A very curious lusus naturce in an English pebble, representing 



a hen with herbage, and another in a flint, representing a leg 



and a foot. 

 Two vice-admirals, and 16 more. 

 A petrefied nautilus freely exhibiting the concamerations and 



siphunculus, from Sheepy Island. 

 A pair of Tower of Babel, exceedingly fine. 

 A Persian music, and a fine yellow furbelowed oyster. 

 Part of a very scarce alatus and a curious buccinum, from 



Hordwell Cliff, and a piece of limestone with pediculi trilobi 



imbedded in it, Wales. 

 A large slab of a singular kind of stone, lately discovered in 



Derbyshire, supposed by some naturalists to be a species of lava. 

 Part of a large ammonites with ramified chambers, sprinkled with 



marcasites, from Bath, 

 A large Swiss breeches, from the East Indies. 

 A mass of bivalves imbedded in sandstone. 

 A large mass of bones, with fragments of limestone, in a red 



calcareous bed, from the rock of Gibraltar. 

 A crystallized lady and a portrait of Mother Shipton in flint. 

 Two suns, a staircase, and 6 more. 

 Two poached eggs, a toad, and 6 others. 

 Part of the outer twirl of a very large ammonites. 

 A pediculus in Fuller's earth, rare. 



A pediculus marinus extended, and another rolled up, from Dudley. 

 One valve of a polyleptoginglimos, with curious adhesions of 



purple furbelowed oysters. 

 Two shoulders of mutton and two large leopard cowries. 

 Two lions in shell-work. 

 A black slate with impression of a lizard, very rare, from Davila's 



collection. 

 A skeleton of a fish (a kind of plaice) in an iron stone, from 



Westmoreland. 

 A fine Hampstead pebble ; a beautiful jasp-achates, Germany ; and 



a rare brown cauk, Derbyshire, all polished. 

 Two magpies, a devil, a painted cockle, a sun, 2 false Guinea 



admii'als, and 2 Otaheite cowries. 

 An impression of a flying-fish in yellow slate, Solenhofen, 



very rare. 

 Two ass's ears, a devil, 2 figs, 2 blackamoor's lips, and 6 more. 

 ^ The spelling is after the original work. 



