474 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
0,000, was exhibited at Vienna the past summer in the English 
department, having been extracted from about $5,000,000 plat- 
iniferous gold.— Address of Dr. R. W. Raymond before the Am. 
Inst. of Mining Engineers. 
7. Sulphur product of the World.—In 1871 the Italian (Sicilian) 
mines of sulphur produced. ..---------- .------- 6,860,000 cwt. 
The rest of the world in the same year produced._ 152,500 “ 
7,032,500 
Equal in gross tons tor._.-.---.------- ameter os Ee 351,625 
The quantity of sulphur produced from the roasting of pyrites 
is insignificant, this industry being occupied almost exclusively in 
the production of sulphuric acid.—Zéd. 
8, Report on the Fossil Plants of the Lower Carboniferous and 
Millstone Grit formations of Canada ; by J. W. Dawson. From 
the Reports of the Geological Survey of Canada. 48 pp. 8V 
with 10 plates.—This memoir extends greatly our knowledge of 
the Lower Carboniferous Flora. It also contains a list of the 
species of the Middle and Upper Coal Measures, and discusses the 
character of Sigillarioid and Lepidendroid stems. 
OBITUARY. 
Aveust Breirnavurt,—This venerable mineralogist died at 
Freiberg, Saxony, on the 22d of September, in the 83d year of his 
age 
prrate lessons to students in the Royal Saxon Mining Academy. 
[e was also at this time appointed Government Inspector of pre- 
cious stones, and Administrator of the Mineralien-Niederloge. In 
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in 1826, on the resignation of 
vestigators in mineralogy in Europe, describing a very large num: 
ber of new species, and contributing a mass of observations of 
great value to science. He was the author of several mineralogical 
his 59th year. 
