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having been obtained from the rock near Utica by the author _ than 
thirty years since, which was in all sregeom of the same species, 
although, as the specimen was afterwards lost, the fact is — te the 
Manual with a query as to the species. 
8. Coal in the Alps of Mt. Cenis. —Mr. Dickrysox exhibited ve ‘ae 
Geological Society of London, at its meeting on Feb, 23d, a number of 
note taken trom the rocks now being tunneled through the Savoy 
f Mont Cenis. They are principally from metamorphic rocks, and 
as per no granite has been touched upon. The most interesting mineral 
of all is the coal, which is found associated with these metamorphic 
nel 
There is no regular dips in any of these vail In one part they are seen 
standing u like a cone, the coal oe vertical, and dipping in a 
variety of — ions.— Reader, April 16, 
. New Fossils from the Lingula -flags of Wales; by J. W. Sauer, 
Esq.—Since the author’s paper at the last session of the Geological So- 
ciety on the discovery of Paradoxides in Britain, the researches of 
Hicks have brought to light so many new members of the hitherto scanty 
fauna of the Primordial zone that Mr. Salter was now enabled to describe 
two new genera of T'rilobites and a new genus of sponge, and to com- 
plete the description of Paradoxides Davidis. Te also a a oe that the 
fauna of the Lingula-flags shows an approximation in some of its genera 
to Lower Silurian forms, and some—the shells and a Cystidean—are of 
genera common to both formations; but the Crustaceans, which are the 
-. indices of the age of Paleo zoic rocks, are of entirely distinct gen- 
; and their evidence quite outweighs that of the other fossils. The 
Primordial zone is, moreover, in Britain separated from the Caradoc and 
Llandeilo beds by the whole of the Tremadoc orn at least 2000 feet 
thick.— Proc. Geol. Soc., May 23, in Reader, Ap. 9 
Ill, BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
1. Heath (Calluna vulgaris) in North America.—tThe earliest pub- 
lished announcement that we have been able to find of Calluna vulgaris 
as an American plant, is that by Sir Wm. Hooker, in the Index to his 
Flora Boreali- Americana (2, p. 280), iesued in 1840, Here it is stated 
that: “This should have been inserted at p. 39, as an inhabitant of New- 
foundlaud, on the authority of De la Pylaie.” Accordingly, in the 7th 
volume of De Candolle’s Prodromus, to the Euro ropean habitat is added, 
“ Etiam in Islandia et in Terra Nova Americe shen But it ge not 
appear that Mr. Bentham had ever seen an American specim He 
overlooked the fact (to which Dr. Seemann has recently called atten- 
tion) that Gisecke, = Brewster's rene at records it as a native 
Greenlan d. No mention “2 de ade by Dr. Lang, in his capbicat aie 
ap tes coae she peat ape 48 rare P aadeeak sae ie ! 
“Newfoundland or even in 
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