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case of the hairy-eared, two-horned rhinocerous, caught at Chittagong some 

 years ago — a species previously entirely unknown to naturalists, although 

 the region inhabited by it was supposed to be thoroughly explored. 



3Ir. Henry Lee coincides in opinion with Mr. Bartlett as to the existence 

 of an undescribed species, and thinks that the phenomena are not to be ex- 

 plained by the movements of any known species, the fact of there being 

 no blowing nor spouting warranting the conclusion that it is not a cetacean. 

 — Harper's Weekly. 



A Group of Posstl Lizards. — Entering the parterre saloon of the Eoyal 

 Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, containing a geognostic collection of articles 

 found in Wirtemborg, you will observe on the right hand a group of a rare 

 character, covered by glass. They are twentj^-four fossil lizards in sand- 

 stone, which, by most skillful hands, carefully prepared, does now be- 

 long to the institution. It obtained the group within the few last years, 

 and but recently it was exhibited to public view. The animals lie on 1.5 

 square meters of fine sand, just as they were formed, just as death had be- 

 fallen each of them, ages ago, and as the water drove their cadavers together. 

 They lie over and beside each other, one of them completely preserved from 

 the snout to the tail, while another is in a state of mortification, with pieces 

 of shell and bones scattered here and there. Here we see one on its belly, 

 there one on its back, and here again on the side, just as chance had placed 

 the bodies — ^just as the sand or mud had buried and covered them for thou- 

 sands of years. They cannot be compared to any now living lizards ; they 

 are as little like the mow living crocodilian as they are like the now exist- 

 ing saurian. They seem rather to be a union of tjq^es, which, in later de- 

 velopment, took different directions into special classes and orders. Their 

 most essential part is the form of the head, properly to be called a bird's 

 head ; the character of the bones of their extremities as we find them in a 

 class of lizards having a strong scaly mail, consisting of some sixty to 

 seventy mail rings. The mediocre size of the full grown animal is eighty- 

 centimeter. The group is altogether single in its character, and no museum 

 of the world can exhibit a parallel case. — Iranslated for the Globe-Deviocraf. 



The Fortunes op the Obelesks. — The sister obelisk to Cleopatra's 

 Needle has been presented by the Khedive of Egypt to New York city. 

 x\.8 we noted last week, it was proposed to defray the expense of transporta- 

 tion across the Atlantic by public subscription, but this course has since 

 been rendered unnecessary by the magnificent offer of a well known citizen, 

 whose name is as yet withheld, to bear all the expense, amounting to 

 $100,000, himself This proposal has been accepted, and we understand 

 from the New York World that the contracts for the removal and shipment 

 of the stone have been signed. At present the question is being discussed 

 where the obelisk is to be erected when we get it; and opinion seems to be 



