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neous. At a later period, it was discovered by Chemnitz in the 

 Volga, and he, probably ignorant of the description by Pallas, 

 described it under the name of Mytilus Wolgce. * A long 

 time after this, M. de Ferrussac, recognising the identity of 

 these two species, united them in one, under the name of My- 

 tilus Chemnitz, -f* But this was not all ; for during this pe- 

 riod it was alluded to by many authors, under the name which 

 Pallas had given it, and described by others afresh under still 

 different appellations. According to Van Beneden, this mussel 

 is found throughout the whole of Europe, and America has 

 specimens which very nearly approach to it. It inhabits the 

 sea, also lakes, rivers, marshes; and all these positions appears 

 to be equally favourable for it. Probably it is the only example 

 in the history of mussels of an individual inhabiting so many dif- 

 ferent places and situations. The author communicates the result 

 of his anatomical researches regarding it, which, in conclusion, 

 he compares with the genus Mytilus. The name of Driessena, 

 which he gives it, is derived from the name of M. Driessens, an 

 apothecary of Mazeyk, from whom the author received, at the 

 end of the year 1822, a collection of these mussels alive, which 

 he found in a canal which was fed by the Meuse, and which 

 ran between Maestricht and Bois-le-duc. J 



16. Discovery of Remains of the Mammoth in India. — In the 

 number of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for Au- 

 gust 1834, there is an account by Mr J. Prinsep of the discovery, 

 in the valley of the Nerbudda, by Dr G. G. Spilsbury,^ of the 

 right and left thigh bones of the Elephas primegenius or mam- 

 moth, which belonged to an individual 15 feet high. In the 

 same work it is stated that remains of a fossil buffalo, the first 

 time such remains have been met with, were found in the banks 

 of the same river, 



ETHNOGRAPHY/. 



17. Projected Expedition to Iceland and Greenland. — M. Pa- 

 risit lately read to the Academie Royal de Medecine of Paris, a 



* Chemnitz, Conchilien Cabinet, xi. 256, lib. 205, f. 2828. 

 •j- Preserved in manuscript ; and indicated under this name in many col- 

 lections. 



% It was found by Mr Stark two years ago in the Union Canal, near Edin- 

 burgh, and also by English collectors in some of the Docks at London. The 

 British animal is conjectured to have been imported from abroad. 



