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to be Cinnamomum iners, Nees, and the other C. aromaticum 

 of the same author, but the list of Cassia plants is not con- 

 fined to the two in question, but Dr. Wight believes extends 

 to nearly every species of the genus. There is one, a 

 native of the Malabar Coast, the bark of which is exported, 

 and three or four other species are natives of Ceylon, exclusive 

 of the Cinnamon proper, all of which greatly resemble that 

 plant, and in the woods might be mistaken for it, and peeled, 

 though the produce might be inferior. Thus we have from 

 Western India and Ceylon alone, probably not less than 

 six plants producing cassia, with as many more species of 

 Cinnamomum, all remarkable for their family resemblance, 

 and possessing aromatic properties. 6. On the discovery 

 of Fossil Teeth of a Leopard, Bear, and other animals 

 in a pit situated in the crag formation at Newbourne, in 

 Suffolk, by Charles Lyell, Esq. F.R.S., V. P.G.S. Mr. 

 William Colchester, of Ipswich, having pointed out to 

 Mr. Lyell these teeth, one was observed to be a carnivorous 

 mammifer, and on submitting it to Mr. Owen, he found 

 it the posterior grinder of a leopard, nevertheless Professor 

 Owen observes the teeth of feline animals agree so closely 

 in every thing but size, that the identity of the fossil with 

 any existing species could not be affirmed on the evidence 

 of a single tooth ; the fragment, however, is decisive 

 evidence that a feline animal as large as a leopard 

 existed at the geological epoch of the rock in which it was 

 found. Mr. Searles Wood selected from amongst a collec- 

 tion of fishes' teeth from the same formation others, referred 

 by Mr. Owen to a kind of bear, hog, and a large ruminant 

 of the size of the red deer ; these fragments are all more or 

 less worn, and as no remains of terrestrial quadrupeds have 

 been previously met with in this formation, Mr. Lyell thinks 

 that as Mr. Wood had found two species of fresh water 

 shells, and estuary species, in the same vicinity, a river may 

 have washed these, together with the bones of land animals, 

 into the open sea. 7. On the occurrence of Fossil Qua- 



