124 Scientific Intelligence. 
In the present Report Mr. Hunt gives the results of a series of investi- i 
gations upon the intrusive rocks of the vicinity of Montreal. These im 
clude orthophyres, some of which are very beautiful porphyries, — 4 
and are followed by the continuation of Mr. Hunt’s researches on the forma 
tion of magnesian rocks. With this investigation our readers have already 
been made acquainted. (See this Journal, |2], xxviii, 170, 365, xxix, 285.) 
By way of Appendix to this Report, we have a catalogue of the plants — 
and animals collected in the counties of Argenteuil and Ottawa by Mr 
W. M. 8. D’Urban, an accomplished voung naturalist now at the Cape 
of Good Hope, who accompanied Sir William Logan during the summer — 
of 1858—and made as complete a collection as possible of the flora and 
fauna of the district. A similar collection was made in the Lower St. Law — 
eee 
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2. urveys.— Kentocky.—The fourth volume of this Sur — 
vey now in press contains the stratigraphy and paleontology of all the 
coalfields of Kentucky excepting a few of the southeastern counties. It 
is provided with five plates and a great number of comparative sectiols 
illustrative of the general distribution of the coal measures. . 
Arxansas.—The second volume of this Survey contains a ge 
propriation of money which a State so intelligent and prosperous as JH : 
nois, cannot withhold—for a work which will be at once so useful apd 8 
honorable to her enlightened liberality, ae 
Texas.—We hear with great regret that the able Director of this Sut 
n removed from his post to m _ 
r delay—and was making 
once on the active duties of his post. 
