150 Scientific Intelligence. 
. Mines and Mineral Statistics of New South Wales, compiled 
by direction of the Hon. Joh 
of the remarkable mineral transformations at Bourbonne-les-Bains 
have been given in volume x of this J ournal, at pages 228 and 
391. They were from abstracts of his communications to the 
Académie des Sciences in 1875, in the Comptes Rendus, lxxx, 
i memoir has 
sion of the characters, conditions of occurrence, and modes of 
origin, of the several species, together with many valuable sugges- 
hydrous silicate of iron, gelatinizing with acids, as had_ been 
observed by Daubrée also at Plombiéres, Vivianite is another of 
the iron minerals, : 
In addition to the zeolites, chabazite, and harmotome, there is 
One in regular hexagonal prisms which Daubrée refers with a query 
site or the material known as Savon de Pilom biéres. 
whole number of crystallized species found to have been 
formed in the bottom of the old Roman well is at least 
four, Daubrée remarks that they may be looked upon a 
hough the 
are Of so various kinds as to illustrate well the associati 
minerals in some metallic veins, The changes were produce 
