192 Miscellaneous. 
Gotp In Nova ScotiaA.—The ‘Report of the Chief Gold-com- 
missioner for the Province of Nova-Scotia, for the year 1863’ (Svo. 
Halifax, 1864), shows that the total yield of gold for the year, 
according to the official returns, is 14,001 oz. 14 dwt. 17 gr., equiva- 
lent, at §18°50 per oz., to §259,032°06; very nearly doubling the 
yield of 1862. ‘This is the product of 877 men, whose labour was 
also directed to the formation of roads and to the works preparatory 
or accessory to mining; and ‘the yield to each man engaged during 
the year (averaging $296) is very much higher than has yet been 
attained in quartz-mining in any other country.’ The yield per ton 
from crushing was nearly (average) 16 dwt. 12 gr. 
THE GREENSAND OF VORARLBERG, NortH-west Tyrot, is highly 
developed and far spread in Western and Eastern Switzerland, 
becomes subordinate in the Vorarlberg, until, at last, it disappears 
completely in its eastward range. The only known locality for 
Greensand fossils in the Vorarlberg is the Margarethenkopf, near 
Feldkirch, where Mr. T. Sholto Douglas collected some, which he 
presented to the Museum of the Imperial Geological Institution. . 
Among them are :—Ammonites Milletianus, and Discoidea Rotula 
(already quoted by Escher from this locality), also Belemnites semi- 
canaliculatus, Blainv., Ammonites Mayorianus, D’Orb., A. dispar (2), 
D’Orb., Terebratula Dutempleana, D’Orb., besides some others not 
yet determined.—Count M. 
Mereoric Iron From Catirornia.—Director Haidinger (Pro- 
ceed. Imp. Acad. Vienna, Oct. 8, 1863) states that the city of San 
Francisco (California) has presented to the Imperial Museum of 
Vienna a portion of the Tucson Meteorite, weighing 13 ounces, 
together with a photograph of the whole block, which was brought 
by General Carleton from Tucson (Avizana Territory, U.S.) to San 
Francisco, and presented to that city. The length of the block is 
4 feet 1 inch (English); its weight 632 pounds. This meteorite, 
containing, like other meteoric irons, minute particles of silicates 
disseminated throughout its mass, is conspicuous for its peculiar 
texture, which gives it the aspect of a genuine granular iron-rock. 
Another block from the same place, weighing between 1200 and 
1600 pounds, has for a long time been the property of the Ainsa 
family at Hermosillo (Sonora), and is to be offered to the Smith- 
sonian Institution at Washington.—Count M. 
M. Lirotp (Proceed. Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, Dee. 1, 1863) 
describes the Coal of Berzaska, Military Frontier, Austria, as 
having been opened eighteen years since, and having been worked 
to a maximum depth of 300 feet. It overlies gneiss, striking NNE. 
—SSW., and dipping westward. The three coal-seams hitherto 
penetrated can be worked in a thickness of 2—3 feet. The roof is 
a fossiliferous limestone, cropping out in a great number of localities, 
and containing Cardinia concinna, Mytilus decoratus, M. Morrisi, 
Pholadomya ambigua, Pecten liasinus, P. equivalvis, Terebratula 
Grossulus, T’. Grestensis; it may the reforebe considered as Liassic. 
In 1868 the quantity of coal extracted reached the amount of 
22,200,000 Vienna pounds (about 9,900 tons).—Count M. 
