94 Miscellaneous. 



author proposes tlie name of Lcelaps aquilunguis for this new reptile. 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. PJdlad., 1866, p. 275. 



Skull of Ziphitjs. — ^In the " Comptes Eendus " (August 6), 

 Mr. Fischer records the discovery of the skull of a species of ZipMus, 

 at Lantre, on the banks of the river Gironde. The presence of 

 animal matter in the cerebral cavity proves the very recent death of 

 the creature. If the determination be true, the fact of the existence 

 of this cetacean at the present day is interesting, as hitherto the 

 references of living animals to this genus have been rather doubtful. 

 Species of Ziphius are vs^ell known to occur in the Crag of Antwerp, 

 and Prof. Huxley has lately described a specimen of BelemnozipMus 

 from the Eed Crag of Suffolk. 



The following extract from an Australian paper, will probably 

 not only interest, but amuse our readers : — The Goal Supply at Home. 

 The probable failure, at no distant date, of the supply of coal, in 

 England, was evidently absorbing much general interest when the 

 last mail left. By a private letter, received by a gentleman in 

 Newcastle, which we have been permitted to peruse, we gather, that 

 serious apprehensions are felt by many scientific men that the supply 

 of coal wUl run out in the course of a few years. The currently 

 received opinion until lately was, that some fifty or sixty years 

 would elapse before the supply in England became exhausted, but 

 further investigation, it would appear, has caused several very emi- 

 nent men to arrive at the conclusion that a much shorter time than 

 that will practically exhaust the supply. — The Newcastle Chronicle. 



LINES ON A SCRATCHED BOULDER. 



Tell me, Greologists, I pray ! 



What you mean by Boulder-Clay ! 



Does it consist of beds contorted. 



Or layers of sand and clay assorted ? 



Is it unstratified or stratified ? 



Can each or either view be ratified ? 



Did it on floating Icebergs travel ? 



Or slide down Glaciers mixed with Gravel ? 



Is it this latter reconstructed 



By Icebergs thawing when obstructed ? 



Is it Moraine Clay or Marine ? 



Or is it neither, but between ? 



"Was the whole country capped with ice. 



Which churned the rocks up in a trice ? 



Did wave, mysterious of translation, 



Perform the work of denudation ? 



Can you declare, with voice emphatic, 



Its stones and not your views erratic ? 



Could but the Boulder Clay or Till 



Find words 'twould call you bolder still. 



