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NATURAL HISTORY. 
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Another interesting vegetable of Dr. Mantell’s discovery is the Endo- 
genites erosa, of which many specimens from Hastings, &c., are de¬ 
posited, exhibiting its structure : it seems related to the Palmm, and is 
no doubt a congener of Cotta’s Poi'osus marginatus , of which a speci¬ 
men is added ; but neither of those generic appellations appear to be 
admissible. There are also remains of real Palm^e in this Case, such 
as the fruits from Sheppey, the cut and polished specimens of wood from 
Antigua, &c, Whether or not Ndggerathiaflabelliformis and a related 
species are referable to them, remains doubtful. 
The upper division of Case 6 contains only specimens of Stigmaria , 
a genus totally distinct from any other known of the natural orders of 
Lyeopodiacese or Filices, to both of which its species have been referred 
by authors. Their internal structure, as proved by transversal sections 
of the stem, approximates to that of the Eupiiorbiace^e. Below these, 
in the same Case, are placed various interesting specimens belonging to 
species of genera of Coniferje, such as Pinus , Araucaria, Thuytes, 
Volzia, Erachyphyllum, &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 (two of them cut and polished) 
of Mantellia nidiformis of Brongniart, from the oolite of Portland.—■ 
Various other vegetable remains, especially of Dicotyledonous plants, 
such as those from the fresh water formation of Geningen, &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 Dendrolithen , Dresden , 1832. The genera Tubicaulis , 
Psaronius (Staar-stein) 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 Coniferee ; in the vicinity of which natural orders 
they are respectively placed in the Wall Cases. 
The slabs of sandstone on the north wall of this Room with the sup¬ 
posed tracks of an unknown animal called Chirothevium, are, that on 
the left, from the quarries of Hildburghausen in Saxony; and that in 
the centre, from those of Storton Hid, near Liverpool, (the latter pre¬ 
sented by J. Tomkinson, Esq.) On the right hand are placed slabs 
from the same new red sandstone formation, with equally enigmatical 
imprests of Yarious dimensions, called Ornithichnites, being very like 
foot marks of birds: they occur in the sandstone beds near Greenfield, 
Massachusetts, at a cataract in the Connecticut river, known by the 
name of Turner’s Falls. 
The two Cases placed against the piers, between the windows of the 
E. wall of the room, contain a suite of varieties of wood opal from 
Van Diemen’s land, presented by Mrs. Howdey, 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- 
