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C. rigzag. 



C. caput-serpentis. 



C. poraria. 



C. olivacea. 



C. adusta. 



C. arabica. 



C. tigris and seven others. 



Genus Trivia, . . 1 



do. Oliva, . . 2 



do. Conus. 6 



Species. 



C. praclatus. 



C. marmoreus and 4 others. 



Genus Nantilus, . . 1 Species. 



N. pompilius. 



Genus Argonanta, 1 „ 



A. argo. 



N. B. In addition to the Shells 

 above enumerated, there are ten or 

 twelve kinds, for which I cannot find 

 a place among Lamarck's Genera. 



Coal at the Foot of the Booteah Hills. 



We are indebted to Major Jenkins for the following com- 

 munication relative to the existence of Coal at the foot of the 

 Booteah Hills. The specimens are not very promising, al- 

 though it is hardly consistent with the nature of things to 

 expect good specimens of coal to be picked up accidentally 

 on the surface. The specimens, although like canal coal in 

 appearance, are more of the nature of Anthracite with the 

 fibrous character of tignite or brown coal. 



* I send you a few specimens of coal from a bed discovered by 

 Mr. C. K. Hudson, directly north of Burpetah, under the Booteah 

 Hills. It is apparently canal coal, it does not answer well for 

 steamers ; but for a stove of mine, it burns freely enough, and may 

 be useful for many purposes : it however probably overlies a more 

 useful coal. 5 ' 



