276 Scientific Intelligence. 
Il, MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY. 
1. Recherches Anatomiques et Paléontolégiques pour servir a 
Phistoire des Oiseaux fossiles de la France y; par A. Mine £ 
warps. Tome I. Paris, 1867. Avec un Atlas en 40 Planches, 1- 
96.—In 1866 the French Academy of Sciences awarded to this 
work the great prize of physical sciences for 1865 ; and from the 
character of the first volume, which is before us, it was a well de- 
as great for Birds as the dental system is for mammals. _ : 
aterial originally at his command was not extensive, for 
collections of fossil birds are not found in the great museums of 
urope; what there was on hand in these and several private or 
lections in France were all carefully examined.- In addition, he 
undertook himself extensive explorations mainly at Sansan and 12 
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rom the principal quaternary and tertiary deposits of Frame = 4 
ies erweyer mainly in Auvergne, on thé shoree of the ancient . 
bi ae that district, then inhabited by an immense number © 
ing that we cannot account f : . the species — 
vied ve the dims of account for the disappear ance of pe 
ca from mace rs ‘= 
» Ale our Own coasts He finds in the caverns o 
quaternary period no generid type not still represented = 
