CONTENTS. 



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The Dragon-Tree of the Kentish Rag. Bj the Editoe. (With Plate.) . . 401 

 On the Restoration of Pteraspis. By Rev. Hugh Mitchell, M.A. . . .404. 

 Correspondence : — 



Origin of FHnt-Veins in Chalk 406 



Red Sandstone Blocks of Dunmanway 407 



The Kirkdale Cavern 408 



Geological Notes in the Great Exhibition : — 



The Coal Mines of Austria . .408 



Strata of High Park Colhery • . . . .414 



British Association Meeting at Cambridge :— 



On Bituminous Schists and their Relations to Coal. By Professor Ansted . . 416 



On the Skiddaw Slate Veins. By Professor Haekness, P.R.S 420 



On the Paleontology of Mineral Vems. By Chaeles Mooee, Esq., F.G.S. . . 420 



On the Geology of Sligo. By A. B. Wynxe, Esq 422 



On the Cause of the Difference in the State of Preservation of Fossil Shells. By 



H. C. SoEBY, Esq., F.R.S 423 



Notes and Queries : — 



The Kyson Monkey 425 



Human Skeleton at Eellet. By C. Caetee Blaee, Esq., and Prof. Btjse:, F.R.S. 424 



Human Remains in River Beds. By C. Caetee Blake, Esq 425 



Vegetable Remains at Bournemouth , . . . . . . . . 427 



Fossil Monkey in the Miocene . . . 427 



Irish Drift Fossils. By A. B. Wynne, Esq 428 



F'ootprints in Carboniferous Rocks 429 



Eosatu'us Acadianus ............ 429 



Great American Desert 430 



Fossil Fish in Magnesian Limestone ......... 430 



Foreign Intelligence : — 



Excavations at Antwerp ........... 432 



Review : — 



Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology, 



and Geology. By John Hunter, F.R.S. With Notes by Professor Owen . 434 



CORRESPONDENTS. 



Communications received from J. Pencelly, Esq., F.G.S., Torquay ; J. W. Saltee, 

 Esq., F.G.S. ; C. Caetee Blake, Esq. ; Prof. W. Kma, F.G.S., Galway ; Prof. Haek- 

 ness, F.G.S., Belfast; W. S. Meyee, Godalming ; W. Pengelly, F.G.S., Torquay; C. 

 Mooee, Esq., Bath. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Apergu Geologique du Departement de la Moselle. Par C. Feldeici, Professeur aux 



Ecoles municipales de Metz. Paris : J. Rothschild. 1862. 

 Etude de I'Etage Kimmeridien dans les Environs de Montbeliard et dans le Jura, la 



France et I'Angleterre. Par Ch. Contejean. Leipzig : J. Rothschild. 1859. 

 The Earth : its Mechanism. By H. Woems, F.R.A.S., F.G.S. London : Longman. 1862. 



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