NOtES ON THE LATE COLLECTING SEASON 



With a few friends Mr. Allom promptly bought the 

 mine outright, and the bhie stone now beautifies many of 

 the Princess of Wales' rooms. The peculiar hardness of 

 the mineral renders the work of cutting most difficult, and 

 much time and ingenuity, both here and on the continent, 

 have been expended, but at last the difficult process of 

 cutting and moulding appears to be solved. 



At Brook House the same blue Canadian marble mixed 

 with pavonazzo will adorn the sumptuous outer entrance 

 hall when it is completed. Hundreds of men are now 

 working to get the necessary quantity of sixty tons cut and 

 moulded to form the cornices and pilasters of the apartment. 



Naiiire informed its readers recent!}^ that the re- 

 mains of an immense Rhinoceros was just discovered in 

 Austria, with flesh and skin in fair preservation. It may 

 have been imbedded in glacial clay perhaps. 



