400 Intelligence and Miscellanies. 



little in saying, that in the two important particulars just 

 named, Webster's Dictionary must, both at home and 

 abroad, stand before all others m the language, and that it 

 will form a valuable part of the treasures of learning com- 

 mon to all countries — not excepting the parent isle — where 

 the English language is studied. We rejoice that the vene- 

 rable author has survived to witness the actual publication 

 of a work, which has occupied so large a part of his life. 



36. Plaster casts of fossil hones of the mastodon. — Pro- 

 fessor Buckland has recently transmitted to this country, 

 plaster casts of the fossil bones of the mastodon, found in 

 Ava, in the East Indies. Those destined for us, and which 

 through the kind offices of G. W. Featherstonhaugh, Esq. 

 have been received here, are very interesting from their size, 

 and from their being, (as we have the fullest reason to be- 

 lieve,) both in color and form, exact representations of the 

 originals. Among the specimens are huge molar teeth, still 

 retained iji the jaws, a large part of whose circuit is preserved. 

 The specimens have been described in the Geological Trans- 

 actions, 2d series, vol. ii, part 3. They are as follows. 



1. A molar tooth of the Mastodon Latidens. 



2. The same _ . - . lower jaw. 



3. The same .... upper jaw with 

 part of the palate. 



4. The same in lower jaw, anterior part. This portion of 

 the jaw is twenty one inches long, and the tooth contained 

 in it is fifteen inches long on the exterior curve. 



5. Mastodon Elephantoides, molar tooth in the lower jaw. 



6. The same, upper jaw. 



7. The same. One fragment of a jaw is a foot wide. 



37. William Maclure^ Esq. — This gentleman, so well 

 known by his sacrifices and exertions for the cause of science 

 and humanity, recently visited New Haven, and presided on 

 the evening of November 1 7th, at a meeting of the American 

 Geological Society, held in the cabinet of Yale College, 

 when the plaster casts of Prof. Buckland were exhibited ; 

 the officers of the society were elected, and G. W. Feather- 

 stonhaugh, Esq. and Mr. Charles U. Shepard were added to 

 the list of members. 



Mr. Maclure was on his way to Mexico, where he will pass 

 the winter, as he did the last, in that fine climate, and ex- 

 pects, on his return in the spring, to bring out with him, un- 



