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Johannes Christianus Kundmann, a doctor of Wratislaw, in his 
* Promptuarium Rerum Naturalium et Artificialium Vratislaviense,' 
published in 1726, says (p. 67) that a petrified egg was discovered at 
Wizin, in Bohemia, and that " a petrified foot of a big Paviran, with 
all its five nails, was discovered in Silesia," — adding, " this is a very- 
curious specimen, the like of which is not to be found in any museum, 
and the more curious as it shows even the blood converted into 
stone." 
What a " paviran " is, we confess to be ignorant. Pavara is an 
Italian name for the domestic duck ; but the " five nails," which the 
fossil referred to by our author possesses, renders more than doubtful 
any association with the foot of the Anas anser. 
The passage in the original German is : — 
" Ein zu Stein gewordenes Ey, welches zu Wizin in Bohmen gefunden ; 
ein zu Stein gewordener Fuss mit alien 5 niigehi vou einem grosseu 
Paviran, welcher in Schlesien gefunden worden (dieses ist ein curioses 
Stiick, welches man in keinem Cabinet findcn wird, wcil auch so gahr 
man das Blut oben noch siehet, das zu Steine worden)." — P. 67. 
Further on in this work, we find in his Catalogue of " Marmora, 
Stalactitse, Lapides speculares, calcarii, tophacei, arena)," etc., the 
record of " an egg entirely incrusted with tufa :" — 
" 110. Topho Ovum totura ibidem incrustatum (s. 513). Tophum hunc 
descr. Gothfr. Berger, ' de Thermis Carolinis,' p. 14-20. Alios vero 
descr. in Georg. Agricola de Nat. Fossil, lib. vii. cap. xii. p. 640. Ans. 
Bueiius in Hist. Gem. et Lapid. lib. ii. cap. ccxix. p. 402. Joh. de Laet 
de Gem. et Lapid. lib. ii. cap. xii. p. 132. Pre. Ul. Aldrovandus in 
Mus. Metallic, hb. iv. p. 703. 01. Wormius in Museo, lib. i. cap. vi. 
p. 51. Boh. Balhinus. Misccll. Hist. lleg. Bohem. lib. i. cap. xxiv. p. 63; 
it. Roh. Ploot, Nat. Hist, of Oxfordshire, p. 34, et ex eo Joh. Jac. 
Scheiichzcrus, Hydrographife Helvetia; (qua? est Hist. Natur. Helvetica?, 
part ii. p. 320), cons. Carol. Nic. Laiigii, Hist. Lap. fig. Helv. part ii. 
lib. iii. cap. ii. p. 55." 
Still further on, in his Catalogue of " parts of other petrified ani- 
mals," we have the following entry at page 254 : — 
" 17. Oscicula petrefacta avicularum alba accuratissima ex monte Hassia), 
vulgo ' dem Vogels-Berge,' eruta (s. 314). 
" 18. Oscicula talia petrefacta lajvia Maslensis coloris nigricantis 
(s. 322)." 
Vid, Leonh. J)av. Hermann, ^Iaslop:raphia, part ii. cap. ix. page 224. Varias Opi- 
niones collegit Dm. Siyni. Biittnerus in llud. Uiluviari. page 304. 
There are several reprints of Zannichelli's catalogue of the fossils 
in his museum. The one usually quoted from is the " Enumeratio 
Rrruji Naturalium qu^ in Mus.eo Zannichelliano asseevan- 
TUR," published at Venice in 1736, in which he notes " a hen's egg 
discovered in a very hard stone " by the following entry : — 
" Musa?i Zannichelliani abacus alter, in quo fossilia figurata continentur." 
206. Ovum gallinaceum in saxo durissimo inventum ex Agro Romano." 
We find the record, however, ten years earlier, in his " Ex Natur.e 
