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Companion to the Botanical Magazine. London. Nos. 1 to 20* 

 By Sir W. J. Hooker, LL. D., he. Tiiis and the five preceding 

 it are from the Author. 



Edinburgh Evening Courant, of Dec. 25, 1837, with a notice of 

 the presentation of a silver vase to John Wood, Esq., Advocate, on 

 account of his exertions in the cause of education. 



Sussex Advertiser, England, Jan. 8, 1838. Brighton Herald, 

 Jan. 20, 1838. Dr. Mantell. 



British Annual, and Epitome of the Progress of Science, for 

 1838. From the Editor, Dr. Robert D. Thompson, London. 



Notice of the University of Durham, Eng. From an English 

 Newspaper. 



List of the Geological Society of London. April, 1837. 



Letters from Rev. Samuel Wood on the United States. Nos. 1 

 and 2. London, Nov. 1837. From the Author. 



MINERALS. 



A box, containing chiefly chalk fossils, echini, bivalve and uni- 

 valve shells, sharks' teeth and palates, and other remains of fishes, 

 sponges, alcyonia, fuci, coprolites, belemnites, fee. From the 

 Wealden — emys, iguanodon bones, &,c. &tc. From the tertiary — 

 bones and teeth of the horse. From the diluvial — bog iron ore. 

 Wood, from the peat bogs of Ireland — the submerged forests, coal 

 plants. From Dr. G. Mantell, Brighton, Eng. 



Very perfect and beautiful terebratulites and fossil corals — shore 

 of Lake Erie, fifteen miles from Buffalo. G. E. Hayes. 



Specimens of marl from New Jersey. From J. M. Ely, Esq., 

 New York. 



Fossil equisetum, in sandstone — large^"^and distinct, from the ex- 

 cavations for the Walhouding and Mohican Canal, at Roscoe, Ohio. 

 From J. S. Peters, Esq. 



Specimens of bituminous coal, from New Lisbon, Ohio— remark- 

 ably filled with vegetable remains in flattened masses, having a dis- 

 tinctly fibrous structure. From Wm. E. Russell, Esq. 



Lignite of remarkable beauty, from New Jersey. Dr. L. D. 

 Gale, New York University. 



