236 Scientific Intelligence. 
The thickness of the Miocene strata of the West Indies, as well 
as their generally undisturbed position and the absence of volanic 
rocks, indicates that the Miocene time was, in the West Indies, a 
long period of calm, undisturbed by vo anic — 
The ‘Plivesné beds of the West Indies oecur in Trinidad (the 
Matura beds) and i in Barbados. To the newest Pliocene or Post- 
Ye referred. “et these deposits occur among rocks ejected from 
b 
a very recent time. 
From the facts exposed above it may consequently be inferred, 
that of the two prevailing lines of elevation in the West Indies the 
one running from west to east originated before the Miocene time, 
and that the other from N. W. to S. E., commencing with th 
Bahamas and continuing in the sas direction down to Trinidad, 
was formed after the Miocene tim 
n the piers hn tg of the memoir, the following are 
described as new minera 
Resanite.— by des ous silicate of pte and iron, of an olive- 
green color, uncrystalline and G = 2°06. The analysis afforded 
Si 35-08, Ou 23°18, Be 9-91, H (vol. at 100° C.) 23°15, TI (ign.) 8°53=99°85. 
It gives the formula, if the iron is protoxide, k? Si*. It is hog 
decomposed by h drochloric acid. Named after Pedro Res 
Bartholomite—In yellow nodules, composed of small readied 
The analysis gave 
5 44-75, Be 22- 71, Mg 0-63, Na 17-08, H 8-08, Na Cl 2°88, insol. 3°56=99'69. 
Separating the common salt, the magnesia as sulphate and the 
meer it gives the form ula 
S + Fe and ie 50°00, Be 25-00, Na 19°38, H 5°62==100. 
It is vinta to botryog 
evonian and Linea Carboniferous Plants.—In the Proceed- 
ings s of the Geological Society of London, published May, 1872, is 
an interesting paper, by Prof, Heer, on the Fossil Plants of Bear 
Island, Spitzber; en. As catalogued by him, the flora of this place, 
which occurs in shales associated with coal, and below the gp 
Carboniferous limestone, includes a remarkable mixture of t 
plants of the Lower Carboniferous or Subcarboniferous of eer 
d America, with ferns characteristic of the Upper. Devonian. 
a 
this high northern latitude a transition from the Devonian 
to that of the Carboniferous. In North America such a transition 
occurs in Ohio, but in other localities these floras are somew 
