138 Scientific Intelligence. 
of lead which I found at the Wheatly mine near Pheenixville, 
Penn. (see this Jour., I, xx, 247, 1855.) They were the best crys- 
tals that had been discovered, except two or three a little larger, 
that were placed in the hands ‘of a crystallographer, “rs misplaced 
them before they were examine e results of Mr. DesCloi- 
ZeaUuXx’s Dehn Ione are contained in the following communica- 
tion to 
ee | baie: examined your crystals of Descloizite. ey are truly 
very small, and somewhat confused; I have, however, recognize ed 
s 
adopted by me for Descloizite. This c character, in connection with 
your analysis seems to make it more than probable that the min- 
eral you found at the Wheatly mine is really Descloizite.” 
8. Geological Survey of Indiana.—The Legislature of Indiana 
has made an appropriation for a peleaeal and Natural History 
Burean, in connection. with the State Boar ) ata he 
see, on the side of “Second Mountain.” The ore has the 
same general characteristics with that obtained from the Stirling 
Hill and Franklin fu urn mines. The gangue is rhodonite, and 
cale spar in some speci al 
0. Révue de Géologie pour les années, 1866 et 1867, par M. 
Derxsse, Ingénieur en chef des Mines, Professeur de Géologie a 
lEcole ormale, etc., et M. DrLAPPARENT, ene des Mines 
Secrétaire de la Société Géologique de France. p- 
Paris, 1869.—This volume is the sixth in the series of Reviews “of 
the progress of Coology prepared by Delesse and Lappare 
Like its predecessors, it gives pretty full abstracts of various 
mes on e Amboigica, gate and Stratigr api Geology, 
il. eh Métamorphisme des Roches, par DELESSE, 
Ingénieur des Mines, Professeur de Géologie a l’école normale, ete. 
cg Couronné par Académie des Sciences. 92 pp. 8V0 
ings of a large number of facts bearing on the subject, and may 
e prin with profit by those interested in that department of 
. Réa éapparition du genre Arethusina Barr. ; o ka 
Sibarionn des environs de Hof, en Baviere; par Joa 
pE.—Each of these valuable memoirs by Barrande is ncalaer’ 
