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THE GEOLOGIST. 



GrAZOPHYLACIO PENES JOANNEM HlERONTMUM Za^NTC BELLI Ve- 



netiis.. Index Primus quo Possilia figura recensentur. — Venetiis, 

 1726." 



" 206. Ovum gallinaceum in saxo durissimo inventum ex Agro Romano." 



The next work we meet with is the ' Magnalia Dei ' by Bruck- 

 mann* (1730). Two figures, which he engraves, are the same as 

 Hermann's in our Plate XXII. Fig. 3, and Wolfart's in our Plate 

 XXIII. Fig. 3. A third figure of Bruckmann seems to be an en- 

 graved seal. His reference runs thus : — 



"Dietz, eine GrafTschafft, hat Eisen-G-rubenund schonen Marmor, und 

 schreibt Petrus Wolfart in seinem Vale Hanovise et Salve Cassellse dicto, 

 etc., von diesem Marmor zu Dietz, p. 24, also : Minime vero Marmoribus," 

 etc. etc. — Bruckmann, ' Magnalia Dei in Locis Subterraneis,' ii. p. 107. 

 [Dietz, a county, has iron-mines and beautiful marble ; Petrus Wol- 

 fart, in his ' Yale Hanovise et Salve Cassellse,' etc., in speaking about the 

 marble of Dietz, says, p. 24 : Minime vero Marmoribus," etc. etc.] 



Hetzius, ' Historia Naturalis Dendrite Lapidumque Cognatorum.,' 

 1734, f is the next work we quote from. He says : — 



" To conclude, we present here a list of the dendritic and other similar 

 stones conserved in our stone-collection of Lund, and which can throw 

 some additional light on our work ; the following are the most interesting 

 among them : — 20 (p. 109). A flint stone or a common pyrites, representing 

 a figure of a small bird, perhaps the Geranites of Pliny, Croppensis, 

 plate iii. fig. 5." 



(See our Plate XXIV. Fig. 7.) 



The original passage runs : — 



" § XIII. Coronidis loco subnectam jam indicem eorum dendritatum 

 cognatorumque lapidum in lithophylacio nostro Lundensi asservatorum, 

 qui huic nostras lucubrationi aliquam lucem foenerare posse videntur ; sunt 

 autem eorundem specimina quae sequuntur, prsecipua. 



"20 (p. 109). Silex seu pyromachus vulgaris aviculse figura insignitus, 

 forte Geranites Plinii, Croppensis, tab. iii. fig. 5." 



* "Magnalia Dei in Locis Subterraneis, oder Unterirdiscber Schatz-Kanimer aller 

 Konigreicbe und Lander, liter Tbeil, in anst'ubrlieber Bescbreibung aller, mehr als 

 Mnc Bergwerckc durch alle vier Welt-Tbeile, welclie von Entdeckung derselben bis auf 

 gcgenwartige Zeit gebauet worden, und noeli gebauet wcrden; in was Stande sie jemals 

 gewesen, und wie sie itzo bescbafleii •, was fur Ertze, Steine und Berg-Arten aus solclicn 

 jemals gewonnen, und nocb zu Tage ausgefordcrt werden ; nebst Anmerckung aller 

 derjenigen Lander und Oerter, wo Edelgcsteine zu finden. In Geograpbischer Ordnung 

 vielcn KupfTer-Eiguren nnd Alpbabetiseben Register, zu bcsicbtigeu dargestellt von 

 Erancisco Ernesto Bruckmann, Med. Doct. Acad. Caesar. Nat. Curios, et Soc. Reg. 

 Pruss. Scient. Colleg. et Pract. Wolffcnbutt. ^'olffenbuttel. mdccxxx." 



f " Historia Naturalis Dendritse Lapidumque Cognatorum quam amplissimo Pbiloso- 

 pborum ordine in Alma Caroliua veniam indulgente, Preside V. CL. DN. Doct. Kilian 

 Stobrco, Arcbiatro Regio Histor. P. P. et O. Facult. Pliilosopb. b. a. Decano speetabili, 

 nec non Soc. Reg. Lit. et Scient. Upsali Sodali meritissimo, dignissimo, Prseceptore, ut 

 Eidelissimo. Ita omni Reverentia Cultuque ad cineres suspicieudo pro Laurea Pbiloso- 

 pbica Naturae. Curiosorum Benevolo Disquisition! Modeste submittit Nicolaus Reizius, 

 Med. Stud. Loco horisq. solilis ad d. 27 Maji anui m.dcc.xxxiv. Loudiui Gothorum, 

 T.vpis Ludovici Decreaux." 



