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sex, in the bed described in Dr. Mantell’s Fossils of the South Downs; 
this fruit is 54 inches long. 
(2.) Abies Benstedi—a fir cone found with coniferous wood in the 
Iguanodon quarry near Maidstone, and described in Dr. Mantell’s me- 
moir on the Molluskite, (see page 243 of the present volume.) This 
fossil contains numerous seeds in a fine state of preservation. 
(3.) .Carpolithes Smithie—a most remarkable fruit; it is the same 
that is described in Dr. Mantell’s Fossils of the South Downs, from the 
white chalk near Lewes, as resembling a compressed nut of Areca. 
It was evidently a spurious compound berry, like the mulberry, the 
seeds imbedded in a pulpy substance. It was found by Mr. Smith, of 
Tunbridge Wells, in the white chalk of Kent.—(Letter from Dr. Man- 
tell to the senior editor, dated Clapham Common, near London, March 
30, 1843.) 
2. Eremite——A comparison of the angles of Eremite and Mona- 
zite, appears to indicate that these species are identical. They agree 
also in hardness, color, and lustre; the discrepancy in specific gravity 
may arise from imperfect determination, as error is scarcely avoidable 
in crystals so minute. The following are a few of the angles of Ere- 
mite. (See Am. Jour., Vol. xxx, p. 71.) 
Monazite. Eremite. 
M:e=136° 35’, M:é=140° 40’, M:€=126° 8’, P: e=181° 52% 
For the corresponding inclinations, Monazite gives (Am. Jour. xxx1I1, 
p. 203) 136° 30’ (€:M), 140° 10! (2:4), 126° 25' (2:4), 131° 22" 
(é:a). Ina late article on the foreign Monazite by Delvoiseaux, in 
the Annales des Mines, t. 11, 1842, p. 362, these angles are given as 
follows: 186° 30/, 141° 5’, 126°, 131°. By calculation, M:T in 
Eremite gave the writer, 103° 46’, and in Monazite, 103° 42’. A spe- 
cimen of Eremite in the hands of Mr. Thomas Dutton, shows a cleavage 
similar to that of Monazite. When first described, only three or four 
very minute crystals had been seen, and in these no cleavage was de- 
tected. J. D. Dana. 
