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cephale et prognathe, mais avec une belle boite cranienne.” 
is in the Carboniferous limestone, 30 or 40 meters above the lord of ‘Liat 
Lesse. A large number of human remains were found.— Reader, Jan, 
contributing greatly to the diffusion of a knowledge of geological science 
through the country, by furnishing casts, made under his direction, of 
fossils of various kinds, from those of the Megatherium, Dinotherium, 
Glyptodon, and: others of gigantic " dnangeee to those mmonite, _ 
Trilobites, eggs of A®piornis, Gold nuggets, ete. The casts are remark — 
ably well made, firmly secured against breaking, and of high finis a “4 
institutions in which geology is taught, would find it greatly to their ad- 4 
vautage to supply themselves with some of the Rochester casts. 
4. Geolo gical Survey of Canada, Sir W. E. Locan, Director. Figura 
and Descriptions of Canadian Organic Remains, Decade I: Graplolites — 
of the i Group, by James Hatt. 152 pages, 8vo, with 21 plates 
and many wood-cuts. Montreal, 1865: Dawson Brotheres London, ew 
York, and Paris: Bailliere.—The first, third and fourth Decades of the .. 
by James Hall. The wonderful variety of these fossils afforded by | 
Quebee group has enabled Prof. Hall to throw great light on the growth, 
developacit and structure of Graptolites. The numerous plates coh 
tain full and excellent illustrations of the species. The nanny of species 
recognized in the Quebec group is over fifty, and none of th 
higher in the series. In the Trenton and Hudson River groups dail bat 
number known is about thirty, and in the Upper Silurian ve are 
two (and these occur in the Clinton group), excepting the spec 
genus Dictyonema, here referred by Hall, of which there are pier ae 
in the Quebee group. one in the Trenton, ¢ ate in the Niagara, one? 
upper Pavia and two in the Hami nea 
5. Alyer's Cabinet of Minerals. othe. savdilleat Cabinet ee 
made by the late Francis Alger, of Boston, has been purchased for 
ghany College, Meadville, Pennsylvania. 
II. BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
1. Harvard University Herbarium.—This establishment is nse : 
the Annual Report of the President of the University to the 
‘sited made in sane last, as follows :— 
ple Herba 
tered to. 
pm. The gif of Dr. Gray cannot be estimated in ie : 
embraces the results of many Soa labor faithfully end by e 
h ed botanist, aided by the generosity of his co: oblaberators a 
= ™-various parts of the w orld.” 
