228 Scientific Intelligence. 
schools of Mining and Metallurgy, in which the organization and 
plans of instruction are given in detail of twelve of the most 
important science Schools of the United States, a timely and 
permanently useful thing to do. 
7. Birds with teeth.—The first example of a bird with teeth 
the London clay of Sheppey. , 
8, uman Skeleton of the cave near Mentone.—A brief 
notice of a memoir on this skeleton and its mode of occurrence 
A, Riviére is given in vol. iv, at page 241. The memoir has 
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that the height of the man of Mentone was about 1°85m., or 6°08 
feet. It closely resembles the man of Cro-Magnon (Perigord dis- 
i (5 ft. 
. , , and t 
The skull is strongly dolichocephalic, because long, and not be- 
cause narrow; and there is no prognathism or projection of the 
aws. 
monwealth, Topeka, July 6, 1873. : 
10. Geological Survey of Kentucky.—The announcement will 
be received with great satisfaction that a Geelogical Survey of 
entucky is to be carried forward under the direction of Prot. 
N.S. Shaler, of that State, now Professor of Geology in Harva 
College. Prof. Shaler will make the work tell on the progress of 
geological science, and not less on the welfare of the State. 
eological Survey of ‘Illinois, —Mr. A. H. Worthen, the 
able head of the Geological Survey of Illinois, writes to the edi- 
tors that the fifth volume of his Geological Report is in course 0 
publication. It is paleontological, like the three precedin 
, an 
will contain many admirable plates of Crinoids, etc., with descrip 
Meek, 
tions of species by Mr. Mee 
