220 Scientific Intelligence. 



4. The Literature of Kent's Cavern, near Torquay, Devomhm 

 —Besides the five Reports of the Committee for exploring Kent's 

 Cavern, published by the J^ritish Association in the volumes for 

 the years 1865 to 1870 inclusive (the first one of which was repub- 

 lished in vol. xliii of this Journal, 18G7), various important publi- 

 cations have been made by Mr. Wm. Pengelly, F.K.S., &c.,inthe 

 Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the 

 of Science, etc., which have also been reprinted in pamphle 

 These include the following : The Literature of Kent's C 

 prior to 1859, 54 pp. 8vo, 1868.— Condition of some of th 

 found in Kent's^ ~ ^ — "'^- '"''—' 



Kent's Cavern, I , , 



Enery's Manuscript, 310 pp. 8vo, 1869.- 

 rence of Hippopotamus major and Machairodus latidens tnKM* 

 Cavern, 25 pp. 8vo, 1869.— Mr. Pengelly was on the British Assfr 

 elation Committee, and served as its Reporter. He has also puth 

 lished, in the same Transactions, On the Antiquity of Mm tnm 

 South-west of England, 34 pp. 8vo, \mi.— On the Introdv^tionoj 

 Cavern Accumulations, 12 pp. mo.— On the Literature ojm 

 Caverns near Yealmpton, South Demm, 26 pp., 1870 ; and otner 

 papers on the Geology of Devonshire. -r. 



5. Atlas der KrystaUformen des .Mineralreiehes ; jon^- 

 Albrecut Schkauk orstcn (/ustos dc-s K. K. Hof-Mineralien» 

 nets, Wien, etc. 4t(., II Licfcruntr.— Dr. Scliraufof Vienna is o 

 of the best crystall.V^raph.rs .>f th. age, as well as an exceO^^ 

 physicist. He hus conunencHd \n this Atlas a large and beaut* 

 work on the crystalline l(.r,„s of minerals, having just published 

 the second part out of the twenty of which it is to consist. 

 order in which the mineral species are taken up is alpbao^^ ^^^ 

 The Second part, just now issued, contains plates 1 1 to ^«J, j^ 

 trating the species from Anglesite to Apatite inclusive, ana ^^^ 

 plate is occupied with sixteen figures drawn and engrave _ 

 great exactness. Under anglesite there are 76 figures; under^^^ 

 hydrite, 16 ; under apatite, 36 ; and so on. The ^^^l^^" -^„^^Jn\ 

 tallographic descriptions of the several figures, and the ^'^^^^^ j,^ 

 dimensions and angles, but without tables of the J^^'^i?^ gphVuit 

 tween the various planes. Many of the figures are by ^ " .j^j^^itv. 

 himself; and in all cases references are given to the a ^,^^^jj 

 The work would be a very valuable companion to any ^^ ^^. 

 ogical cabinet or library. It is printed in a style wort y 

 Vienna press. ... f ^or^l 



6. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia and ^«Pff f^"^.. ^tb 

 America; bv Edward D. Cope. Part HL VV-^^p}?.S^s&' 

 two large plates.— This third part continues Prot. ^T .g^ It 

 valuable work on our fossU Batrachians, Reptiles and ^ir .^, 

 is devoted mainly to the birds, and describes at length ^^^^^^,,?, 

 Sula loxostyla Cope, from the Miocene of Calvert *^°'' ^ged s^ 

 and Meleagris svperbm Cope, (on a following pag,^'. f^^^^L «/^«' • 

 having been first announced by O. C. Marsh as f ^'^ =^8 al=^^ 

 from the Post-pliocene of Monmouth Co., N. J. « <'^°' 



