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have the foi-ost asj'ycct. It was found lying loose on the surface of 

 the forest area, and may have been cast uj) Ijy the waves. 



Mr. A, Hunt informed mo, on March ^.'ird, 18(55), that the forest 

 had entirely disappeared. For about a week immediately preceding 

 there had been strong north-easterly winds, sometimes becoming 

 very heavy gales. The forest therefore could not have remained 

 uncovered for more than a month, or five weeks at the utmost. 

 This, however, was a long exposure when compared with those of 

 earlier periods, according to the accounts which have reached us. 



TI. — Archives of the Natukal History Exploration of the 

 Country of Bohemia. Published for the Committee of Ex- 

 ploration under the direction of Professor Dr. Carl Kokistka, 

 and Professor I. Krejoi. 



Vol. I. Contains,^ under OrograpMcal Section-Measurements, one- 

 tenth part of the Map of Bohemia, upon which 4,000 points have 

 been measured and verified. 



The Geological Section contains : — 



(1). A detailed stratigraphical description of the entire Chalk- 

 formation of Bohemia by Professor Krejci. 



(2). A Palseontological Monograph of the lowest strata of the 

 Chalk-formation in Bohemia (Upper Greensand) by Dr. A. Fritsch, 

 containing a detailed description of 92 localities. 



A plate illustrating new freshwater shells of the " Perncen " 

 strata (lower part of Upper Greensand). 



(3). An examination into the microscopic structure of Eozoon 

 Bohemicum, with 2 plates by Dr. A. Fritsch. 



(4). On Fossil Crinoids, etc., from the Urkalk of Pankratz, by 

 Dr. A. Fritsch. 



(5). Additions to our knowledge of the Tertiary Freshwater 

 Gasteropoda of Tucharitz Bohemia, by Alfred Slavik, assistant to 

 Dr. Fritsch in the Museum of Prague. 



(6). Note on a Locusta from the Braunkolen formation of 

 Bohemia. 



ni. — The Mineral Wealth of India. 



The Englishman (Calcutta), of the 5th February, 1870, contains 

 some lengthy notes on the Mineral Wealth of India. Their chief 

 object is to show that this wealth has never yet been fully de- 

 veloped, and that no reason exists why wealth, similar to that in 

 which the ancients luxuriated, should not again be realised by those 

 who may be induced to search for it. 



The historical evidence is first set forth, and numerous references 

 are made to ancient writers to prove the riches of the land. 



1 We are indebted to our friend Dr. Anton Fritscli, the able and energetic Keeper 

 of the Palseontological and Zoological collections in the Royal Bohemian Museum, 

 Prague, for the above interesting Keport of the contents of the first volume of this 

 truly national work. — £dit. 



