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the recently discovered Foraminifera of the Laurentian gneiss.”— An- 
niversary Address of the President (Sir R. I. Murchison) of the Geological 
Society of London. 1866 
Tue EOZOÖN IN Austria.—“ Prof. Hochstetter, after long and labo- 
rious search, has succeeded in saan in the crystalline limestone of 
Krummau, in South-western Bohemia, agglomerations of calcareous 
spar and serpentine, which have vile declared by Dr. Carpenter, to 
whom specimens had been sent for examination, to be undoubted re 
mains of Hozoon. pest ered se thinks the lenticular nodules 
partly composed of calcareous spar serpentin uin so abundant in the 
vicinity of the graphitic prt z Biwa rzenbach and Mugerau, to be 
ssibly of organe origin. f. Gümbel has batey’ found the Eozoön 
in the crystall ribet aah at Bavaria.”— Quarterly Journal of the 
Pies Ba il y. London. 1866 
The oon is the earliest ra of animal life known; it belongs 
to the iwek type of animals, the Protozoa, and has only been found 
in the oldest rocks on the globe: i. e., the Laurentian System, consist- 
ing mostly of gneiss, limestone t syenitic rocks. It was first dis- 
covered in Grenville, Canada, by the Canadian Geological Survey, and 
afterwards in Connemara, Ireland. 
Singsaas 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Wasps AS MARRIAGE-PRIESTS TO PLants.—‘‘Among 
these Wasps (though technically not a wasp at all), 
is a fine, handsome insect which has greatly piqued 
what itis? It is near the a au or the Scoliide 
Ooa Dae p aimes materially, I think, from | 
the m is as bu outs a \ 
highly ae gnified, I enclose. I think from the 
pearance of the spines upon the tarsus, that nearly °f ® wasp’s leg. 
all of them have borne these appendages, which have been broken 
off of such as are now without them. The terminal lobe of the 
appendage is light green, while the enclosed granules (or cells) are 
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