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factory an example as the original Antwerp skull. Mr. Eay Lankes- 

 ter has also obtained flattened claw-like teeth from the Eed Crag, 

 which agree in external character with those of the Micropteron 

 Sowerhiensis in the museum at Oxford ; and are, in all probability, 

 the denticles of the bident lower jaw of some of the crag Belemnozi- 

 phii. The Palaeontographical Society have announced the publica- 

 tion of a monograph of the Crag Cetacea by Professor Owen, which 

 cannot fail to be of the greatest interest at the jDresent time, when 

 the Cetacea are attracting so much the attention of osteologists. 



Senakmontite, feom Cornwall. — I have not been able to discover 

 whether this mineral has hitherto been found in the British Isles. No 

 mention is made of it in Greg and Lettsom's Mineralogy, nor am I 

 aware of the existence of any other specimen than the one in the 

 British Museum. The crystals are of the usual form., viz. : regular 

 octahedrons, about two lines in thickness, opaque, and accom- 

 panied with minute crystals of carbonate of lead. They line the 

 interior of a cavitj'^ in Jamesonite, which is associated with Bleinierite. 

 This specimen is from near Endellion, in Cornwall. — T. Davies. 



Geological Survey of Great Britain. — We understand that 

 it is in contemplation to increase the staff of the Geological Survey, 

 by a large addition to its ranks, with a view to the completion of 

 the Survey within ten years. While we are glad to notice a 

 development of further energy and interest in this important work, 

 it remains to be seen whether sufficiently skilled assistance for this 

 object can be obtained from practical geologists at the low rate of 

 remuneration usually offered to scientific labourers. 



New Classification of Meteorites. — In the " American Journal 

 of Science " for January, 1867, Mr. C. U. Shepard gives a new classi- 

 fication of meteorites, with an enumeration of meteoric species. The 

 author first arranges them under three classes — (1) Litholites, stony; 

 (2) Ijiiliosiderites, stone and iron mixed; (3) Siderites, chiefly iron. 

 These are separated into sub-classes, and these again into orders ; but 

 we must refer our readers to the original paper for these details. The 

 author gives a list of those species of minerals which are supposed 

 to have existed in meteorites anterior to their arrival within our 

 atmosphere ; they are : Chamasite, T^nite, Oktibbehite, Schreiber- 

 site, Ehabdite, Chalypite, Ferrosilicite, Troilite, Graphitoid, Kabaite, 

 Chromite, Quartz, Olivine, Augite or Eustatite, Piddingtonite, Shep- 

 ardite, Anorthite, Labradorite. 



Alberto Cav. Parolini, Nobile de Bassano, was born in August, 

 1788. He was much attached to science, and was mainly instru- 

 mental in founding a Museum of Natural History at his native 

 town, Bassano. So earlj)- as 1819 he had been elected a Foreign 

 Member of the Geological Society of London. He was the author 

 of several papers published in the Journal of the lioj^al Venetian 

 Institute of Scienco, Literature, and Art. He died in January, 1867. 



