208 Intelligence and Miscellanies. 



C T. Jackson of Boston, presented a box of minerals col- 

 lected by himself, illustrating the geology and mineralogy of 

 Nova Scotia, and a part of Massachusetts. The collection 

 consisted of upwards of seventy choice and well selected 

 specimens, among which the following were more particu- 

 larly noticed. Laumonite, Thomsonite, and radiated Meso- 

 type ; purple Scapolite, white Heulandite, yellow Chabasie, 

 Petalite, (pink variety,) with crystals of ferruginous oxide of 

 cerium, &c. &c. 



November. — Messrs. Cooper and Cozzens, who have re- 

 cently returned from an extensive tour through the western 

 states, presented a mass of tertiary rock from the shore of 

 the Potomac, sixty miles below Washington. It contained 

 casts of Turitella, Area, Calyptrea, Pectunculus, Ampulla- 

 ria, &c. and was considered as precisely similar in fossil 

 contents with the clay of the London basin. — A letter was 

 received from the secretary of the navy, returning thanks to 

 the Lyceum for the interest they had taken in the proposed 

 voyage of discovery, and for the ample instructions with 

 which he had been furnished by the Lyceum. — Dr. Mitchill 

 read a continuation of his paper on the progress of the nat- 

 ural sciences in the United States. — Dr. Torrey presented 

 specimens of the rare mineral Glaukolite, from the vicinity 

 of Lake Baikal. — The same gentleman announced the dis- 

 covery of Cadmium among the zinc ores of New Jersey. — 

 Prof. Buckland, of the university of Oxford, presented a 

 series of excellent casts of the Mastodon latidens and ele- 

 phantoides recently discovered in the kingdom of Ava. — The 

 president delivered a discourse founded upon the recent de- 

 cease of a member, Mr. D. H. Barnes. — Messrs. Cooper and 

 Cozzens presented specimens of the rock formations in the 

 neighborhood of Bigbone Lick, (Kentucky,) with two maps 

 illustrating the geology of that place. They also exhibited 

 an extensive series of specimens of the teeth and bones of 

 the mastodon of various ages, and the elephant. — They pro- 

 pose to give a detailed description of these specimens at 

 some future meeting. — Mr. Louis lanin of Paris, was elected 

 a corresponding, and Dr. I. Brinherhoff, and Mr. Isaac S. 

 Hone., resident members. 



December. — Dr. Torrey stated that having treated a por- 

 tion of a fossil tusk from Kentucky, (probably that of a mas- 

 todon,) with dilute muriatic acid, the animal matter still re- 



