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Natural History. — Zoology, 
was dug up in the parish of Kirk Balaff, and secured for the 
Royal Museum, by the exertions of his Grace the Duke of 
Athole. It was imbedded in loose shell-marl, in which were 
numerous imbedded branches and roots. Over the marl was a 
bed of sand ; above the sand a bed of peat, principally composed 
of small branches and rotten leaves ; and over the peat the com- 
mon soil of the country. 
38. Natural History of Alcyonia, Spongia , Corallina , Sertu- 
laria , Eschar a, and Corals , from the French of Lamarck , by J. 
S. Miller, A. L. S., Corresponding Member of the Wernerian 
Natural History Society. — We have great pleasure in announ- 
cing the intention of Mr Miller, already so well known to the 
public, by his excellent History of the Crinoidea, to publish a 
translation of Lamarck’s valuable descriptions and histories of the 
animals above enumerated. It will prove very useful to the 
English zoologist, and we have no doubt will increase the num- 
ber of students of this very curious and interesting department 
of Natural History. This work is, we understand, patronized by 
the Geological Society of London, and the Wernerian Natural 
History Society. This kind of patronage was formerly much 
prized ; and we have no doubt, when, as in the present case, ju- 
diciously granted, is an important public testimony to the author, 
of the utility of his work. The following observations are from 
Mr Miller’s printed Prospectus, abridged. 
66 Although these Classes have formed the subject of many 
valuable works, yet the history of their fossil genera, which 
equal in number, beauty, and interest, the recent, have hitherto 
received comparatively but little attention ; and the few and 
scanty notices which exist concerning them, are scattered through 
various unconnected publications; nor has any attempt been made 
to reduce them under a regular arrangement, an object of equal 
importance to the geologist and general naturalist. Even with 
reference to the recent species, their general and external forms 
have alone, in most instances, attracted the Regard of those who 
have undertaken their description, while but little attention has 
been paid to the phenomena and laws of their internal structure 
and organization.” 
39. Manners of' the Asiatic Rhinoceros.— The following very 
interesting account of the manners and habits of the Asiatic rhi~ 
