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vallies than on the mountains.-— Gloucestershire Chronicle , April 14, 1837. 
[We have seen and received many notices of a similar nature to the above.—E d. 
Nat.] 
GEOLOGY. 
Antediluvian Remains.-— A specimen of an antediluvian monster of the 
Ichthyosaurus tribe has this week been discovered in a quarry at Twerton, the 
property of C. Wilkins, Esq. It is a petrified skeleton embedded in lias, of 
which the huge jaws, teeth, vertebrae, and ribs are perfect.— Bath Journal , as 
quoted in the Derby Reporter , March 26, 1838. 
Carbonized Tree. —A tree in a complete state of carbonization has been 
found at Guadaloupe, buried in the midst of volcanic substances. There was no 
vestige of leaves; it was broken seven feet below the first branches, and the 
fracture resembled that of trees destroyed by a hurricane; it was at intervals 
surrounded by a parchment-like cylindrical substance, the colour of a dead leaf, 
which was the remainder of a vegetable, called in that country the “ burning 
Liana,” which is as succulent as the Cactus, and which, being suddenly exposed 
to a violent heat, lost its aqueous particles without the entire destruction of its 
bark. The whole was found in a stratum of red puzzolamim mixed with pu¬ 
mice. The charcoal to which it was reduced, was the same as that used for 
domestic purposes, except that a slight smell of coal was exhaled from it during 
combustion. Six different strata laid above this tree; the uppermost, of vege¬ 
table earth, proved the antiquity of the whole, and this, combined with the dis¬ 
tance from the present active volcano, makes it probable that the irruption which 
covered it proceeded from the Huelmont group, of which the Caraibe forms the 
principal summit.— Athenceum , March 24, 1838. 
REVIEWS OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis ; sive Enumeratio contracta 
Ordinum, Generum, Specierumque Plantarum hue usque cognitarum, juxta 
Methodi Naturalis Normas digesta. Auctore Aug. Pyramo De Candolle. 
Pars sexta : sistens Compositarum continuationem. Parisiis : Treuttel et W'urtz . 
—London: Henry Kernot, 59, Greek-Street, Soho-Square, 1837. 
