NATURAL HISTORY. 
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Another interesting vegetable of Dr. Mantell’s discovery is the Endo - 
jenites erosa , of which many specimens from Hastings, &c., are de¬ 
posited, exhibiting its structure : it seems related to the Palmse, and is 
10 doubt a congener of Cotta’s Porosus marginatus , of which a speci- 
nen is added ; but neither of those generic appellations appear to be 
idmissible. There are also remains of real Palmje in this Case, such 
is the fruits from Sheppey, the cut and polished specimens of wood from 
Antigua, &c. Whether or not Noggerathiaflabelliformis and a related 
species are referable to them, remains doubtful. 
The upper division of Case 6 contains only specimens of Stigmaria , 
i genus totally distinct from any other known of the natural orders of 
Lycopodiacese or Filices, to both of which its species have been referred 
oy authors. Their internal structure, as proved by transversal sections 
3 f the stem, approximates to that of the EuPHORBiACEiK. Below these, 
in the same Case, are placed various interesting specimens belonging to 
species of genera of Conifers, such as Pinus, Araucaria , Thuytes , 
Volzia, JBrachyphyllum , &c. In another part of the same Case are 
deposited interesting remains of the natural order of Cycadeje, (among 
which may be specified the fine specimens from the oolitic formation 
at Whitby,) of various species of Pterophyllum , Zamia , Ctenis, and (on 
•the top of the Case) the globular trunks (tw’o of them cut and polished) 
of Dr. Buckland’s Cycadites megalophylla , (Brongniart’s Mantellia 
nidiformis, ) from the oolite of Portland. Various other vegetable re- 
1 mains, especially of Dicotyledonous plants, such as those from the fresh 
water formation of Oeningen, &c., will hereafter be arranged in Table 
Cases to be made for their reception. 
On the lower shelves of the Cases 3, 4, and 5, is placed a very ex¬ 
tensive series of cut and polished specimens of fossil wood, most of them 
from the red sandstone formation of Chemnitz in Saxony, and New 
Paka in Bohemia, and many of them described and figured in Cotta’s 
work: Die Dendrolitken, Dresd. 1832. The genera Tubicaulis , 
Psaronius (Staar-siein) and Porosus , no doubt belong to the Filices ; 
many of the remainder are referable to the Palms, and a still greater 
portion of them to the Coniferse ; in the vicinity of which natural orders 
they are respectively placed in the Wall Cases. 
The two Cases placed against the piers, between the windows of the 
E. w 7 all of the room, contain a suite of varieties of wood opal from 
Van Diemen’s land, presented by Mrs. Howley, the lady of His Grace 
the Archbishop of Canterbury. 
Among the objects separately placed in Room I. are—near the 
window opposite to the Table Case containing the native silver, a 
branched variety of that metal from Kongsberg, presented by H. Heu- 
land, Esq.;—in the centre window of the East side, a large portion of 
I the trunk of a tree converted into semi-opal, presented by Lady 
Chantrey; — in the window, near the Table Cases containing the sul¬ 
phates, a very large mass of Websterite, from Newhaven, Sussex, pre¬ 
sented by Dr. IVIantell; — a large specimen of the brown coal of Ice¬ 
land, called Surturbrand, presented by Sir Joseph Banks ;■—two busts 
carved in jet-like bituminous brown coal, the one of Henry VIII., the 
other of his daughter the Lady Mary. 
The sculptured tortoise near the centre of this Room, placed on a 
round table inlaid with various antique marbles and other mineral sub- 
