o76 i^rof, Berzetiiis^s Letter to the Editor, 



with species now extant — in some instances he observes a 

 great similarity, if not a perfect identity. The Brongniarts 

 are entitled to great credit for the zeal with which they have 

 prosecuted the investigation of fossil vegetable remains — a 

 ibranch of natural history, which until lately has been much 

 neglected, and from which we may expect the most impor- 

 tant results. C. H. 



11. Analecta Entoniologica. — A work with this title, con- 

 taining i04 closely printed quarto pages, by John With Dal- 

 nian, M. D <k,c was published in Stockholm in 1823. Several 

 new genera, and one hundred a' d fifty new species of insects 

 from Brazil, Sierra Leone, and various other parts of the world, 

 are des»'ribed, together with many other species which have 

 been described in various parts of the transactions of the Royal 

 Academy of sciences of Stockholm, the descriptions of which 

 have not found a place in systematic works on Entomology. 

 The author, in his preface, apologizes for the prolixity and 

 minuteness of his descriptions, by adverting to the confusion 

 which has undoubtedly been occasioned in entomology by 

 an excessive precision of style. His descriptions are ex- 

 tremely minute and clear, and evince that the author pos- 

 sesses no ordinary share of discrimination. C. H. 



12. Extract of a letter to the Editor from Prof. Berzelius of 

 Stockholm, dated July 3, 1824. 



(1.) New variety of Orthite^ and a nezo Alineral resembling 

 Feldspar, ^c. — Nothing particularly remarkable has occurred 

 here in mineralojj;y, except, that in the midst of the city of 

 Stockholm, two minerals have been discovered, one of which 

 appears to me new, and the other is the orthite, hehre found 

 only at Fiiibo near Fahiun. For the purpose of building a 

 church upon one of the six islands which form our city, they 

 cut down a part of a mountain in which these minerals were 

 found. We afterwards discovered that they are found every 

 where in the granite about Stockholm ; as yet they are not 

 very numerous, but piobably will, in the progress of time, 

 be found abundantly. In a box of minerals which I am 

 sending from Count Warzlmeister to Dr. Torrey, I have 



