288 Scientific Intelligence. 
end with the part containing Nos. 6 and 7, a 
commences a “ Description of Vertebrate Fossils, by Prof. Jos. Lew. 
The student will refer to this memoir with particular interest at 
mains actually obtained in excavations of the Post-pleiocene ee 
formations, more confidence is felt in determining the actua bos a 
mains of the horse from the facts related (in this rae ae 
must be conceded that several species of this animal inhabite nage 
try of the United States during the Post-pleiocene period, broad-tooted 
8. Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition ; pes 
Youre Hin, M.A., Prof. of Chemistry and Geology 0 Univ. ‘ 
Coll. Toronto. Toronto, 1859. 4to, pp. 202, with esa aa hour to 
and plates.—This valuable Report comes to hand at too vi oe | 
enable us to do more than give its title, deferring to our ne : 
of - contents. by SaxBoRy 
of 
ost 
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ject of American text-books, and it is pleasant to see 08 
Tight direction. Our author however is not quite up to date : 
ances, as in ignoring our Permian and western 
cluding the Lias in the Oilitic system, ete. 
* This Journal, xxvii. 156. 
