384 Scientific Intelligence. 
some places over-grown by bushes or conifers, as is often the 
case, these mosses ascend against the trunks or above the roots, 
plants by and by take root and live. On solid ground, the same 
species grow in compact mass, all their stems erect, closely pressed 
together.— LZ, Lesquereua in Hayden’s Rep. for 1872 
fathoms, a gray sandy ooze, containing dead shells of Pteropods, 
many foraminifers, and pebbles of pumice; also large Schizopod 
crustaceans e same depth, between the islands of San 
Miguel and Santa Maria, the bottom was Globigerina 002e, and 
stony corals were unusually abundant; two specimens of a rer 
ds. st 0 
Globigerina ooze, the temperature 1°5° C.— Nature, we 18. 
5. Reliquiw Aquitanica, being contributions to the { 
and Paleontology of Périgord and the adjoining provinces of 
i HENRY 
eer : 
Edited by Tuomas Ronni Jones, F.RS., F.GS., ete, P rol, 
Geol. Roy. Military and Staff Colleges, Sandhurst. 
July, 1873. pp. 157-172, and (descriptive of the plates) 145-152, 
with plates A, xxxv, xxxvi, B, xxiii, xxiv, and O, vi, valk 
This valuable work, whose publication has been for awAlle 
pended, has commenced again to be issued. Part xii contains - 
nt of aper by ou noe 
Cave Deposits of the Reindeer Period in the Sout 
The plates contain engravings of flint chippings and of 
horns etched or covered with carvings, and among the la 
the outlines of various animals. - shout 
The prospectus states that this work will be completed in abou 
15 parts, each to contain 6 plates. The cost of each is 3s. Bur- 
6. Note on Huizinga’s Experiments on Abiogenests ; by 
DON-SanpERSoN.—Under the title of a “ Contribution to 
bones Or 
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