218 Miscellanies. 
which, with the bordering edges of dark iron, and (apparently). sul- 
phate of barytes, winds its way, in the most delicate flexions, through 
the sober ground work of the lias, and forms a picture, not unlike 
that of the ramifications of a great Delta, whose bright waters inoscu- 
late and cross in many mazes, dividing the territory into innumerable 
islands. It is not easy for an observer to persuade himself that these 
tables are natural pictures; the first impression is, that they are a 
kind of mosaic work. 
24. Fossil Jaws of the Tapir.—Extract of a letter from Gideon Mantell, Esq., 
late of Lewes, now of Brighton, England, to the Editor, dated Jan. 1834. 
“They have found two perfect lower jaws of the tapir at Darmstadt; strange 
to tell, it had two tusks at the anterior extremity of the lower jaws, and which 
point downwards. Wasever any thing so extraordinary: they must have been 
intended to enable the animal to grub up bulbous and tuberose roots from under 
the wattled fibrous roots of a forest!” 
25. Chalk and chalk fossils in granite—Extract of a letter to the Editor from 
Prof. Leonhard, of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, dated 29th Jan. 1834. 
‘“‘T have performed recently a geological tour in Bohemia and Saxony, and have 
observed a multitude of interesting facts; among other things at Meissen upon 
the Elbe, fragments of chalk full of petrifactions—imbedded in granite.” 
26. Obitwary.—Died at Bethlehem, Pa., (the place of his birth,) early in Febru- 
ary last, the Rev. Lewis D. De Schweinitz, the secular head of the Moravian So- 
eiety, or Unitas Fratrum in America, aged about 52 years. Several of his early 
years were spent in the pursuit of study in Germany, during which period he de- 
voted considerable attention to the investigation of cryptegamous plants. After 
his return to this country, the confidence of his brethren gave him an ecclesiasti- 
cal charge in one of the Moravian settlements in North Carolina. While on that 
station, he employed a part of his time in studying and arranging the fungi of that . 
region. 
His various scientific publications are in great esteem among the learned, and 
justly entitle him to an eminent place among the botanists of his time. A list of 
his works, so far as we are acquainted with them, is given below. 
He was indefatigable in the discharge of duties, conscientious and consistent on 
the subject of religion, and persevering in every description of study. His loss 
will not be less regretted by those who had the advantage of knowing him as a 
friend and companion, than in his more public character, in which it will be long 
and deeply felt both by the Moravian Church and by the friends of science. 
Conspectus Fungorum in agro Niskiensi crescentium; socio J. B. ab Albertini, 
Lipsiz, 1805. 8vo. : 
Specimen Flore Americ Septentrionalis Cryptogamice, 8vo. Raleigh, N.C. 
1821. 
Monography of the North American species of the Linnean genus Viola, Am. 
Jour. of Science, Vol. 5. p. 48-81. 1822. 
A Monograph of the N. A. species of Carex, Annals of the N.Y. Lye. Vol. 1. 
p- 283—373. 1825. 
Synopsis Fungorum in America Boreali media degentium. Trans. of Amer. 
Phil. Soc. for 1832.—Poulson’s Daily Adv. Feb. 15. 
