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where the age of the strata from which the. fossil plants are taken is 
mostly uncertain, where we have no possibility of comparing specimens, 
and not a single library where we can find all that has been published 
on paleontology, we can come at once by some kind of divinationto 
of which the general outline and the details of nervation are 0 
We have thus to begin and to break the way, and the only means of 
as fast as we can get them, figuring them carefully and ermining the 
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two marine fossiliferous beds (very rich indeed) have been discovert 
the one near Cairo in Illinois, by Prof. A. H. Northen; the other neat — 
Oxford, by Prof. Hilgard, and perhaps a third one in Tennessee by re 
fford,—three State Geologists of the three different States. Taye 
spent some time last fall in the examination of the formations; and be- : 
sides the specimens of fossil leaves which I have collected, I have nov — 
for examination the rich collection of the Mississippi University of 7 
ford, and the private collections of fossil plants of both Prof. Hilgard 
and Prof. Safford. is from these materials partly examined that | 
have taken the above conclusions. : 
- Respectfully Yours,  Lé&o LesQueREts. 
_ Columbus, Ohio, April 3, 1860. 
Ill. BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
1. Florula Ajanensis, by Reczt and Tune. Moscow, pP- 128, * 
1858. (Extr. Trans. Imp. Soc. j 
imitoe Amurensis, by ©. J. Maxtmowtez. St. ine 
1859. (Extr. Mem. present. Acad. Im. Sci. St. Petersb), PP- ‘ 
Fl hotensis of 
vetter and in Mi ives an account of the ™ 
and Meyer in Middendorf’s Journey, Beste a the Ochotsk 
Sea. The latter, a bulky volume, contains the first fruits of the 
explorations consequent upon the colonization of the lower the 
River by the Russians. These districts nearly abut etal | 
ern part of Japan, and therefore possess for us a peculiar 0 or 
est. They share notably, though not as largely as Japan, 0 
American types which present so curious a problem in 
