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per cent, nickel. This, with the uncommon appearance of the metal, 

 which was perfectly free from rust, and had the peculiar silvery 

 whiteness of meteoric iron, puts the source of the specimens alluded 

 to out of all doubt. The one mass is probably entirely iron, and too 

 hard and intractable for farther management ; the other appears to be 

 a meteoric stone, containing pieces of iron, which they succeeded in 

 removing, and extending upon a stone anvil. — Quart. Journ, Sc, 

 1818, vol. vi., p. 369. 



ISTOTIGIES OIP JVCIEIMIOII^S, 



I. — The Fossil Flora of Gheat Britain. 



THE Fossil Flora, by Lindley and Hutton, has been long known as 

 the only general work containing figures and descriptions of the 

 vegetable remains found in a fossil state in this country, and which 

 must always be consulted by every scientific investigator of this 

 subject. Since the completion of the third volume, more than thirty 

 years ago, many important papers have been published on the 

 Pal^ontological Botany of the British Islands, by Dr. Hooker, 

 Bunbury, Prof. Haughton, Prof. Heer, Carruthers, and others, but 

 no general work or continuation of the Fossil Flora has appeared, a 

 desideratum very much needed, and which it is now proposed shall be 

 supplied- 



Mr. Quaritch having recently purchased the copper-plates and 

 copyright of this standard work on the Fossil Plants of Britain, 

 and knowing the extreme rarity of the 'book, has resolved to produce 

 a fac-simile re-issue of the work, from the original copper-plates. 

 To secure the accuracy of the re-issue, Mr. Quaritch has fortunately 

 secured the aid of Mr. Wm. Carruthers, of the British Museum, to 

 superintend it, wliose valuable contributions to Fossil Botany are 

 well known to the readers of the Geological Magazine. In addi- 

 tion to re-editing the original work, Mr. Carruthers will prepare 

 a Supplementary Volume, containing figures (in not less than 40 

 plates) and descriptions of all the important additions made to the 

 Fossil Flora of Britain since 1837 ; together with a critical examin- 

 ation of the species in Lindley and Hutton's classic work, and a 

 synopsis of all the known Fossil Plants of Britain, which will bring 

 the whole work up to the state of the science at the present day. 

 The work will be issued in monthly parts, commencing in May next. 



II. — ^Notes op a Visit to Dominica. 



By E. J. Lechmere Guppy, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



[Proceedings of fee Scientific Association of Trinidad, December, 1869.] 



HAVING spent a few weeks in Dominica, Mr. Guppy has given 

 us a sketch of the physical structure of the island. His ob- 

 servations are the more interesting as it seems that its geological 

 features have not previously been described. Situated between 



