SCIENTIFIt! news; ^ J rr 



hesitate to come up two or three together riding on the 

 loaded basket that is drawn up by the chain. 



The black pepper plant thrives remarkably well in the bt i 

 botanic garden at St. Vincent, under the care of Dr. Alex- in the West 

 ander Anderson, and has been producing fruit there some ''"'''^^» 

 time. The doctor finds it a plant of more easy cultivation 

 than he had imagined. He has likewise collected a consi- and doves. 

 derable quantity of cloves. 



Mr. Parkinson has withdrawn the Introduction to z/;e Parkinson's 

 Knoiolcdge of Fossils, announced at the end of his first vo- Introductk.ii 

 lurae o{ Organic Remains of a former World, considering Remaias''^"^ 

 its publication as entirely superseded by Mr. Martin's excel- 

 lent systematic Outlines of the same subject. 



The third volume of Organic Remains is in considerable 

 forwardness. 



Wernerian Natural History Socieii/, 



At the meeting on the 3d of February, the Rev. Dr. Mac-Mineralogy «f 

 knight read to the Society an account of the mineralogy of '^eHighlands. 

 the Highlands of Scotland, from the Pass of Leny to Bala- 

 hefish ; which he illustrated by specimens. The general 

 rock in this tract is mica-slate, with its usual subordinate 

 beds, such as, of granular limestone, hornblende-slate, &-c. 

 It contains also in some districts, beds and veins of lead- 

 glance, and indications of ironglance. Beyond Tyndrum, 

 the mica-slate approaches to gneiss, till we pass Inverouran, 

 where sienite appears. In the neighbourhood of King's 

 House, newer granite, felspar, porphyry, and hornstone are 

 found ; and the adjacent country, as might be expected from 

 the decomposition of th^se rocks, presents, for many miles, 

 an vinusual aspect of bleakness and sterility. Glencoe, 

 which is singularly interesting, both in a picturesque and in 

 a mineralogical point of view, consists of hornstone and com- 

 pact felspar, in beds subordinate to the primitive rocks, and- 

 capped with porphyry. At the bottom of Glencoe, mica-, 

 slate again appears, and is covered with the formation of 



ciav-slate 



