418 Scientific Intelligence. 
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10. Rhinoceros and Hippotherium from Florida.—Dr. L 
describes in the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Academy of 
e Specimens occur, with fragments of a crocodile, a carni- 
vore about the size of a fox, and a lama,in a deposit overlying the 
species, named Hippotherium venustwm in Holmes’s Pliocene 
fossils (1860, 105, pl. xvi), and earlier Hipparion venustum (i roe. 
Philad. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1853, p. 241), was from the Ashley 
River phosphate beds of South Carolina. 
1 
more than a year ago (vol. xxvii, 151) he general design of 
the whole work was there given, and the relation of the posite 
sive parts into which the subject had been divided. e presen 
te) f the 
The completion of the work will be awaited with interest. of 
12. Studies of some Japanese rocks.—Dr. Bunpsrro Kore, 
t po : é 
pyroxene of the andesite as being in part pleochroic, 10 part a 
though both are monoclinic, and the author concludes belong d 
the same species. An analysis of the pleochroic augite, separate 
by the Thoulet solution, afforded : 
SiO, Al,0. Fe,0. M MnO 
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These andesites also contain sparingly hornblende which * 
_ altered on the margins to pyrox : By 
13. American Fossil Cockroaches.—Prof. 8. H. Scuppes dv 
scribes new fossil cockroaches in the Proceedings of the Philade> — 
