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agi’ee with him in thinking that this might form a valid generic character. 
The colour on the part of the tail appeared to be affected by it. Dr. Smith 
observed that he had noticed a similar mark on two different species in South 
Africa, which seems to confirm Mr. Gray’s opinion. Mr. Ogilby thinks it pos¬ 
sible that the same kind of glandular structure may exist in the “ brush” of our 
Common Fox.—Mr. Ogilby described two species of Apes brought over by 
General Hardwicke, from the Straits of Malacca; he named them Hylobutes 
coromandus and H. styllites. He then described some species of Colobus^ and Dr. 
Smith exhibited various species of Moles from his collection. 
ASHMOLEAN SOCIETY OP OXFORD. 
This Society has lately received a valuable donation from Lieut.-Col. Stacy, 
consisting of organic remains from the Himalaya mountains. They are mostly 
bones of the Elephant, Mastodon, and Hippopotamus; Dr. Buckland either has 
already described them, or will shortly do so.—A paper by Dr. Duncan was 
read, relating to the various fermented liquors used as drink by man, and dis¬ 
cussing at some length the wines of ancient Greece and Italy.—Dr. Daubeny 
then described the rocks of Adelsback, on the Bohemian frontier, a day’s journey 
from the Riesengebirge^ or Giant Mountains of Silesia, remarkable for the 
weathered condition of the sandstone of which they are formed. The rock is 
the Q.uaderanstein^ and represents the green-sand formation of this country; 
it is a continuation of the rock through which the Elbe flows in Saxon-Swisser- 
land. The whole of this sandstone formation, occupying a space of four miles 
by two, is divided into polyhedral masses, to a depth of not less than 100 feet 
from the upper surface. The causes are supposed to be the force of running 
water and the downward action of rain, to which Dr. Buckland thought, that 
the force of the wind should be added, in which opinion we are inclined to 
concur. 
We may here notice that we have lately received ‘‘ A Catalogue of the 
Ashmolean Museum, descriptive of the zoological specimens, antiquities, coins, 
and miscellaneous curiosities. Oxford: S. Collingwood. 1836.” By this cata¬ 
logue we are glad to find that the museum of the society—^hitherto so notorious 
for its disorderly and decayed state—^has been recently undergoing arrangement. 
As far as regards the number of the specimens in almost every department of 
Zoology, the museum is well off, for it contains a great variety of British and 
foreign species. At the bottom of each page in the list the derivations of the 
various scientific terms are supplied. Of the state of preservation of the speci¬ 
mens we know nothing and are told nothing, but from the circumstance of many 
of them having been so long neglected, we fear that at least some portion of them 
must be in a bad condition. With this Museum and the splendid Radcliffe 
