104 PRESERVATION OF ANIMALS. 
If we then eliminate the silt and moisture as being accidental 
and non-essential constituents, we have, as the composition of 
the pure mineral, 
a. b. 
Carbonate of Lime ...........00sceseseeevee 96°22 96:26 
Carbonate of Magnesia ...........ssssss06 3°78 3°74 
100:00 100-00 
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The properties and composition of these samples seem to me 
to differ from those of any previously described mineral, and 
therefore, for the present at all events, regarding it as new, I 
propose for it, as identifying it with the locality, the name of 
Jarrowite. 
XXI.— Remarks upon the Preservation of Animals. By Witu1aM 
GREEN, Jun. 
Ir has frequently struck me that many interesting facts relating 
to natural history and other subjects which come within the scope 
of this Society’s notice are lost sight of from appearing in news- 
papers and other publications in the shape of brief paragraphs 
and notices, to be read and forgotten. 
To a Society like ours, whatever is doing towards the preser- 
vation, propagation, and acclimatisation of animals and plants 
cannot be without interest; and here I would call attention to 
the remarks made in the Annual Address of the 29th March, 
1860, by our late able President, the Rev. H. B. Tristram, 
where he deprecates the wanton destruction of every rare bird 
that appears in this country. Would that a wider circulation 
were given to them than is afforded by our publications. 
Every true lover of nature cannot but deplore this wanton de- 
struction which goes on around us; scarcely do we take up a 
newspaper in which paragraphs similar to the following do not 
meet the eye :— 
‘Two spotted Woodpeckers were shot in the Dill Plantations 
last week.”—Durham Chronicle, 10th May, 1861. 
