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Sci entiflc In telVigen ce. — Zoology . 
Hook, and Tayl. (This was found in the grounds of Charles 
Lyell, Esq. of Kinordy.) Hypnum silesianum , Pal. de Beauv. 
H. Crista-castrensis , L.; H. flagellar e, Dicks; II. molle, Dicks; 
Jungermannia setiformis , Mohr. ; J. Doniana , Hook. ; J. al- 
bescens , Hook. ; J. orcadensis , Hook. ; J . Taylori , Hook. ; Lc~ 
cidea decipiens , Ach., &c. 
ZOOLOGY. 
17. P> * eserving of Birds , — Sir John Sinclair has commu- 
nicated to us the following notice: Mr Temminck, Director of 
the Dutch Museum, has, for many years, made use of no other 
means of saving preserved birds and quadrupeds from the at- 
tacks of minute insects, than placing a small wooden basin, con- 
taining tallow, in each case , which he finds to be more effectual 
than either camphor or Russia leather. 
18. Further particulars in regard to the Fossil Whale of 
Dunmore. — 44 Mr Monro having informed me that you had been 
making inquiry upon the subject, I went over to Dunmore, 
and procured the following particulars : — In a line almost di- 
rectly north from the beautiful Gothic mansion lately erected by 
the Right Honourable the Earl of Dunmore, in Dunmore Park, 
and about 600 feet from the River Forth, and where the soil is 
the usual alluvial deposite found along the banks of the river, 
the waste-drain of a field on the south side of the new line of 
the Kersie road from Stirling to Linlithgow, was, in the month 
of August last, deepened to about 4J feet, when the workmen 
came upon a substance, which at first they took for the trunk of 
a tree ; but, on a little examination, its cellular texture soon con- 
vinced them that it was the bone of some huge animal. From 
the discovery of the Airthrey whale, a considerable interest was 
excited, and his Lordship, in the most attentive manner, gave 
directions that the greatest care should be observed when his 
workmen encountered a bone. During the operations, and to 
the extent they had occasion to be carried, a number of very 
entire bones, chiefly vertebrae, were dug out, and deposited in 
the offices at Dunmore House. In consequence of your desire, 
I last week visited the spot, and although the fields beneath 
which it is buried, are at present under a crop of wheat, I pro- 
cured assistance, and easily succeeded, by uncovering a small 
portion of the soil, in procuring several pretty large bones. 
