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THE GEOLOGIST. 
The quartz of this province, and nearly all the rivers, are aurife- 
ferous. A gold mine in qnartz, drowned by water, lay abandoned 
for a long time, until a Spanish company tried to make it accessible 
by driving a gallery, but this project was abandoned in consequence 
of heavy losses. 
Excellent iron, worked in a very primitive way, is found in the 
pro\'ince of Bulacon (north of Manilla). Fine magnetic iron- ore 
occurs also. Grey sulphuret of copper is exploited in the northern 
part of Luzon, both by natives (who bring the metal to the coast 
in small shapeless cakes), and by a Spanish company, Native 
mercury not associated with cinnabar, occurs in black magnetic 
iron-sand at Albay (East Luzon). Coal exists in the inaccessible 
localities of North Carnarines, and in the Isle of Leba, north of 
Mindanao. Platinum is said to occur in a brook coming from the hill 
of St Mablo, near Manilla. A Spanish company exploiting the copper 
occurring in rolled pebbles on the Isle of Samar (south-east of Luzon), 
could not cover theii^ expenses. As to the red chromate of lead, it 
had been discovered by Don Isidro de Baaranda, of Madidd, who 
brought to England the finest specimens of this mineral. Its scarcity 
is accoupted for by the circmnstance that the natives near the Leba 
gather the small crystals of it and crush them to powder, to strew 
over newly written letters. 
New Fossils from Badohoy and Trieste. 
Remains of Belpliinopsis Freyeri have been found in the Tertiary 
beds of Radoboj (Croatia) — so well known for their abundance of 
fossil plants and insects. A tooth of a Bhinoceros, different from 
Rh. tichorhinus, and resembling the Eh. Mercldi, from Daxland, near 
Carlsruhe, has been found in a cave recently discovered near Matterie, 
two Austrian miles from Trieste. 
Stoliczl-er on the Fossil Molusca of the Hierlatry (Middle Lias) Strata. 
Among the seventy-two species of moluscs (fifty-four Gasteropoda 
and eighteen Acephala), occmTing in these beds of the east Alpine 
region, eighteen are identical with the forms known from the middle 
Lias of Fontaine-Elonpefour, and the Chalons-sur-Saone (Normandy), 
efighteen Avith German forms, and forty-eight species have not been 
described Six species only occur simultaneously in the German, 
Alpine, and French Lias ; some of them are also knowm to occur in 
the coeval strata of England. 
Secondary Rocks of Portugal. 
Prof. E. Suess, on examining a large collection of fossil Brachiopoda 
from Portugal, has arrived at the conclusion that the marine fauna 
of the secondary rocks in Portugal bear a far gTeater resemblance to 
the corresponding faunae of North-E astern Em^ope than to that of 
South Europe. 
M. Foetterlie on the Brown Goal of Zovencedo (Nicentine). 
This coal is embedded in the basaltic tuff of the Monti Beridi, overly- 
ing a small surface of the Eocene Tertiaries. Two coal-seams from 
thi^e and a half to seven feet in thickness, are at present open ; both 
