NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
BOTANY. 
ENACITY OF LIFE AMONGST THE HIGHER PLANTS.— Specimens of 
Lewisia ea a Portulacaceous plant, large-flowered and fleshy, 
growing in British Columbia, Oreg an lifornia, will grow, 
although they have been dried erbarium for r three 
years; and indeed the samples are often troublesome from sprouting 
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hilst between the papers. One species, collected by Dr. Lyall, of 
the British Navy, was “immersed in boilin ing water” to stop this 
growing propensity, before submitting to the drying process, and yet 
more than a year and a half afterwards it showed symptoms of vital- 
ity, and in ape 1863, it produced its mii flowers in the Royal 
Gardens ew. — Quarterly Journal of Scienc 
re OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN A BRICK TAKEN FROM THE 
or EGYPT. — Professor Unger has communicated to the 
Tupe ree of arga at Vienna, a paper on the vegetable 
dr m i i 
nd animal remains an of manufacturing art, contained in & 
brick taken from one of the fey pela pyramids mined a brick 
from the pyramids of Dashour, which dates back from between 3,400 
and 3,300, B. C., and found imbedded in the Nile mud or slime of 
which it is composed, animal and v mains so perfectly pre- 
served that he had no difficulty whatever in identifying them. Besid 
two sorts of gran ba: found the ng amiliar p _— oo ar- 
n 
e bricks also contained abundant remains of fresh-water 
insects, fishes, etc. Quarterly Journal of Science, London. 
ZOOLOGY. 
ten Currure.—In the International Exposition of the Produce 
and Implements of Fisheries, at Bergen, were collections of young 
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