598 Scientific Intelligence. 
rom the Lower Cretaceous of the northern side of Noursoak 
Peninsula, and in a bed of black shale overlying the gneiss which 
forms the “essential bulk of the land, he found a flora of sixty-eight 
omy nck tale Professor Nc BP a Director of the expe- 
dition, discovered a quantity of well preserved v egetabie remains 
at a higher level or in the Upper Cretaceous. ‘The specimens rep- 
resent sixty-two species, viz: ten Conifers, among them a Salisbu- 
ria, found with leaves and fruits, two Cycadex, thirteen species of 
Ferns, and thirty-four dicotyledonous species, distributed in sixteen 
faaniies ax and eighteen genera. Among these he mentions leaves of 
Ficus, Sassafras, Diospyros, Magnolia, Myrtus, Leg panies, and 
remarks that some of the species are e known already fr he Qua- 
dersandstein of Saxony, Bohemia, Moletin (Moravia). 
Only tive of these species— s—three Ferns and two Conifers—are 
identical _ those of the first locality or the Lower Cretace- 
ous. Eight hundred feet above this formation, they still found 
He 
of the lowest Miocene: ‘amon ng "the em he Ccnikee. one hundred and 
thirty-three species, fifty of which are also found in the Miocene 
of Europe. ‘This flora is totally different from that of the Creta- 
ceous of the same country, no species being identical. This Ter- 
tiary formation is covered, like the whole land, Py) immense deposits 
of als 
volume, a few oo are pies is ablishe by Dr, pee 
who states that his specimens, which he would be pleased to show 
to all inter pea fully sustain his view. In the May number, Mr. 
Carter has 
tensive sean ge of living Rhizopods. ‘The latter number con- 
tains also a paper by Messrs. Kin aid Rowney, repeating their 
ag rad against the animality vs the er 
Manuel de Minéralogie; par A. Dxs CLowEaux, Membre 
de 1 VInstitut de France, etc. Tome second, Premier Fasicule. 
208 pp. 8vo. Paris, 1874. (Bac —Des Cloizeaux’s Mineralogy 
is made up largely ‘of the results of extended personal investiga- 
of hie very, valuable work. That volume was occupied with the 
| Silica is first part of the second volume, after some addi- 
8 Pose! not notes on the Silicates, goes on with the species in the follow- 
ing order: (1) those containing Boron ; (2) Cargon, the coals, 
pies incited, and then the oxalates and carbonates} (3) 
