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POPULAR SCIENTIFIC LECTURES. 
Tho Primvvnl Flora. 
The fifth scientific lecture, before the 
American Institute, was given by President 
Dawson of McGill College, Montreal, on 
Wednesday evening, Dec. 23, and has many 
facts of interest relating to the formation of 
the coal which now so generally furnishes 
our fuel. 
Geology works strange revolutions in our 
view of things, new and old. The primitive 
forests, and even the gray rocks and hills 
themselves, are things not primitive and un¬ 
changing, but things comparatively of yes- 
ten I uy, the successors of older forests and 
older rocks, that in dim and ghostlike pro¬ 
cession recede from our view into the puat 
of an antiquity, compared with which all 
human antiquities are things of yesterday. 
“ The murmuring pines, and the hemlocks, 
bearded with moss, and in garments green, 
indistinct, in the twilight,” may u stand like 
Druids of eld, with voices sad and pro¬ 
phetic,” but they belong not to ilie forest 
primeval of Earth’s younger days, though 
they may point buck ward to perished prede¬ 
cessors ol truly old dab', to truly primitive 
and geologic antiquity. It, is to them that 
we must go back in imagination. Transfer¬ 
ring our thoughts to these old forests, and 
imagining their strange fantastic forms and 
the singular creatures which lived beneath 
then 1 shade, we shall find ourselves in a ne w 
world, different from that we inhabit and 
differently peopled. Could we marshal in 
one view lour or five planets, each clothed 
with the peculiar flora and inhabited by the 
peculiar fauna of a distinct geologic period, 
we should have nothing to connect them 
with each other save only certain similari¬ 
ties of plan and conception. But when we 
view these, several worlds as successive, and 
destined the one to prepare the way for the 
other, we can perceive relations* of the most, 
remarkable and unexpected character and 
have presented to us a scheme of creation 
too vast to lie contained on the surface of 
our planet at, any one period, and represent¬ 
ing, with our present flora, all the possibili¬ 
ties of vegetable existence, and all the uses, 
present and past, which plants can serve. 
Taking the whole of the plants known to 
us, we shall find that, they may he divided 
into two groat series:—First, those in which 
wc observe distinct flowers, and fruit con¬ 
taining seeds proper, seeds with the embryo 
of future plants. These are the highest, 
plants and constitute the phrenogamous 
plants of the botanist. Then we have a 
great class of plants of a lower and humbler 
organization, which arc destitute of true 
flowers, and which, instead of producing 
seeds, produce microscopic spores. These 
arc the cryptogamous plants of the botanist. 
(Phffiuogamous signifies producing manliest 
seeds; and eryptogamoiie, hidden or con¬ 
cealed seeds.) The whole vegetable king¬ 
dom is divided into these two great series. 
Two relations of the primeval flora t,o 
that of the present time are possible: one 
that the primeval flora may belong to a 
different classification altogether, and the 
other, the true one, that tire whole flora of 
the earth, from the earliest geologic times, 
comes under one classification. This shows 
that from the beginning of geologic time, 
one plan has been followed out, in the 
construction of the vegetable kingdom, and 
that the whole vegetable kingdom includes 
all the plants that, arc now' living or have 
ever lived upon the earth. There is another 
possibility that the primitive flora may in¬ 
clude representatives of all our modern 
classes of plants, or only some of them. 
We find that, it includes representatives of 
some of them, and those not the lowest nor 
the highest orders, but.ot the medium grade. 
The primeval flora, therefore, embraced the 
higher cryptogamla and the lower phanio- 
gamia; and had wc only known the prime¬ 
val flora we should not have known the 
possibilities ot the vegetable kingdom, either 
in its highest or lowest ranks, but only the 
middle of the settle. 
The earliest, rocks we know, the eozoic, 
(signifying the earliest period of organic life,) 
have afforded no plants, so far as we know, 
at all. The next stratum, the paleozoic (sig¬ 
nifying old life,) includes the oldest land 
plants we know ; and it, is these alone which 
wc shall mention here. The warm and 
moist portions of the southern hemisphere 
at the present time have a flora, more nearly 
resembling that, of the early epochs than 
any other portions of the earth. The uni¬ 
formity of the flora of that early period indi¬ 
cates a temperature nearly uniform through¬ 
out the earth. At present we have but a 
small quantity of carbonic add gas in our 
atmosphere. If we had more it would tend 
to make our climate more uniform by pre¬ 
venting the radiation of heat from the earth. 
The carbon locked up in our coal mines, and 
then existing in the atmosphere, may there¬ 
fore have been one reason for the uniform¬ 
ity of climate on the earth in the paleozoic 
period — the flora of that day indicating a 
warm and moist climate. 
We now turn to the carboniferous (coal- 
hearing) period, when there was a vast 
amount of vegetation, afterwards made fossil 
and becoming coal. In Hint moist, warm, 
but unwholesome atmosphere, we find the 
sigillam or seal tree, one of those most 
abundant in the swamps of the carbonifer¬ 
ous period. This had a large, tall stalk, with¬ 
out branches, covered with narrow leaves, 
or perhaps divided into a few branches. We 
have remains showing the ribbed structure 
of the stalk and Hie scars of the leaves. 
There arc no trees in our time resembling it 
in its structure. We know of the fruit of 
this tree only, by the abundance of a certain 
nut which is found around them. Trees 
of two and three feel in diameter were not 
uncommon. The root of this tree is more 
remarkable than its stem, having attracted 
the attention of geologists before the stem 
and obtained the name of stigmaria. They 
occur very often in the coal formation with¬ 
out the stems, aud at first it was supposed 
they were the whole of the plant. The first 
process in the formation of a coal bed was 
usually the growth of a forest of bigillaria. 
The next class of plants is the cal.amit.es 
which seem to have grown along the margin 
of the sigillarian woods, resembling brakes 
or mare’s tails. The calami tea seem to have 
contributed much to the purity of our coal 
by causing the mud to settle from inunda¬ 
tions before it entered the forests. The lcpi- 
dodondroti, or scale tree, was of a size equal 
to the sigillaria, resembling our ground pine 
or club mosses, anil was more plentiful in 
the earlier coal formations than in the, latter. 
There were some plants more familiar to 
our eyes. The ferns are to be found in 
the coal bods, preserved as beautifully as 
they could have been in an herbarium, but 
they resembled the ferns of New Zealand 
more than those, with which wc are familiar. 
Some of them grew to the beauty and dignity 
of the palm tree itself. We sometimes find 
in the coal beds tilings looking like enor¬ 
mous brooms, which are tree ferns. We 
also find varieties of pine, the wood of 
which was much like that of our modern 
pines. But, Hie primeval pines were more 
like those of Australia than like those of 
our climate. When wood is buried in the. 
earth, and its cells tilled with water holding 
silica or lime iu solution, they become filled 
with stone and the wood becomes coal; and 
this is the form in which we find these fossil 
remains. By removing the mineral we can 
observe the vegetable structure of the plants 
and determine their character. 
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CURRENT TOPICS. 
Ji$marM)le Natural Wells .—A Poultney, 
Vt„, correspondent of Hie Albany Express 
describes some remarkable natural wells 
which have been found in the slate quarries 
in that vicinity. He says:—“ In excavating 
the Tucker, Crawford and Knapp quarries, 
after blasting and excavating many feet deep, 
the workmen have frequently come to a 
smooth, flat or table-rock; when this flat 
rock was removed, wells, or what the miners 
call ‘ pot-holes,’ were discovered. Borne of 
these, wells were found to he from fifteen, 
twenty to forty feet in depth, from six to 
eight, ten and fifteen feet in circumference, 
perfectly round, and tus smooth as though 
they had been bored out. They were filled 
with round stone, ranging in size irom a 
cannon-ball to a grape-shot, and so on down 
to bullets and marbles — most of the wells 
being entirely dry. This phenomenon is sup¬ 
posed to have been produced by currents of 
water being forced through the ere vices of 
the rocks above, taking up part icles of gravel 
and depositing them wherever an opening 
occurred, and then coming down with such 
great velocity as to form eddies or whirl¬ 
pools, taking up, revolving round ana round 
—no telling for how many ages—those par- 
l ivies, which continued to increase in size till 
the well becomes filled, and the water creates 
another opening.” 
Silk without, Waring in California '.—A man 
in California proposes to manufacture silk 
from the original vegetable fiber of the mul¬ 
berry tree, w ithout waiting for the slow pro¬ 
cess of its natural changes first into foliage, 
thence through the digestive and other organs 
of the worm into cocoons to be carefully un¬ 
rolled and spun. Tito inventor takes the 
inner bark of young saplings, and by mechan¬ 
ical and chemical treatment, removes an 
portions of it, except, tilts fiber, which is then 
refined, washed, dried and combed ready for 
spinning. The staple thus procured is said 
to he line, soft and strong, about live inches 
in length, of good color and considerable 
luster. It js said that Californians are about 
t.o undertake this new manufacture on an 
extensive scale. The process is an interest¬ 
ing one, and may yield a valuable material 
for textile manufactures; but it is, we sup¬ 
pose, erroneous to call it silk, as the physio¬ 
logical processes of animal and vegetable life 
have never yet been successfully imitated by 
artificial means, and this product is not likely 
to prove an exception. 
PERSONAL ITEMS. 
Lady Franklin favor* female suffrage. 
Wade Hampton Is bear hunting on his estates 
in Mississippi. 
Wm, M. Stewart was re-elected Senator from 
Nevada on the JZth last. 
Rosa Bonheur is painting a dog pioture for 
Ale xander II. of Russia. 
On. Manning, Archbishop of Westminster, 
England, is to be made a Cardinal. 
Rev. Or. Ooane will be consecrated Bishop 
of the new diocese os' Albany Feb.«, 
Mrs. Kjsv. Dr. George !.. Euentirs of Now 
York Is the. author of the famous “Susie Books.” 
Gen. Kilpatrick was pr con ted with a $2,000 
silver service by the Hartford soldiers on the 
Bill Inst. 
Geo. Francis Train Is being lionized by the 
Foil Ians, aud is blackguarding the British Lion 
in return. 
Wm. B. Read, a soldier of the war of 1812, 
died in Williamsburg, N. Y., on the 10th insl. at 
the age of 77. 
Emil Stein mf.tz of Jersey City bos been un¬ 
lucky enough to draw a $0,000 gold prize in a 
Havana lottery. 
Tiicrlow Weed and daughter sailed for 
A i ken, S. C., on t ho 0th, in hopes of restoring 
his failing health. 
Gov. (.'laklin of Massachusetts has appointed 
Charles H. Taylor, a Boston newspaper reporter, 
his Private Secretary. 
Rev. Dr. Cilumn's old led uro upon Columbus 
wax so great a favorite that be has written an¬ 
other upon the same subject. 
Gen. Grant has accepted an invitation from 
Ex-Gov. Hawley to visit and inspect some of 
the Connecticut maim factor! e 
Jefferson, who founded the University cl' 
Virginia, had a provision against a Theological 
department inserted in its charter. 
Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, is said 
to speak with the greater! on e and fluency every 
language spoken in his checkered Empire. 
Edward McPherson, Clerk of the House of 
Representatives, is engaged upon a “ Life and 
Times of Thaddeus ,Stevens," soon to lie pub¬ 
lished. 
Rev. B. M. Tillowon of Manchester, N. It., 
has, during the past t wenty-live years, married 
1,750 persons, buried 1,400, and preached 2,000 
sermons. 
D. L. Moody, the well known "lay-preacher," 
was chosen President of the Union Christian 
Convention, at Chicago, on the evening of the 
lltli bad. 
Queen Oeoa of Greece promenades the streets 
of Athens with her baby in her arms, talks with 
all the mothers she meets and compares babies 
with them. 
,Petuk Cooper, founder of the New York 
Cooper Institute, itidveydowu to his business 
each day in an oM-lashfonod rockaway drawn 
by a bay horse. 
Nahum Holbrook of Upton, Maes., was found 
dead in ills sawmill on the 11th. It Is thought 
that a slab flying off lilt him in the stomach and 
thus killed him. 
Harry Armstrong of Newburg, N. y„ has 
in his possession the pistols used in the duel be¬ 
tween Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, at 
Weebawkeii, N. J. 
Gov. Hoffman, next to Gov. Seward, is tbe 
youngest. Chief Magistrate New York has ever 
hud. He is thirty-nine; Seward was thirty- 
seven when elected. 
Robert NlCBOL, t he Scotch Havant, has found 
that a pound of raw sugar contains 100,000 little 
sugar Insects, which are entirely removed by 
the process of refining. 
Cuniai'iNA Nielson, tbe beautiful prime 
ntt , is said to be a sculptor of ability, and wifi 
exhibit at the next Parisian Exposition a stat u¬ 
ette of her production. 
Max Muller, the great philologist, is in rap¬ 
tures over the Turkish language, imd says it “ is 
a language of such transparent construction 
that, we can study its inner workings as we can 
watch the progress of ceils in a bee-hive." 
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ART AUD ARTISTS. 
The London Society of Painters in Water 
Colors has inaugurated its seventh annual exhi¬ 
bition. 
Hildebrant, the artist who accompanied 
Humboldt and painted the aspects of Nature in 
Maryland and varied climes, Is dead. 
"St. Catharine carried by Angels to the 
Tomb " bus been engrav ed .i hundred times. It 
was putu tod by MrcKE of Dusseldorf. 
The "Silver Swan.” a curious automaton that 
moved over mimic water devouring golden fish, 
aud attracted so much attention at. the Paris Ex¬ 
position. has been purchased by the King of 
Burmab. 
Blekst.adt’h “ Sierra Nevada in California" ts 
on exhibition in the Royal Academy of Berlin. 
Ilia pictures are there Claimed to bo, iu stylo, 
more German than American, and smacking 
greatly of Hie Duhskluorf school. Tills picture 
assorts a noble presence among its compeers. 
Bougierrau, the French artist, whose picture 
called “The Twins," (boys asleep,) for which 
August Belmont recently paid four thousand 
dollars in gold, has never commanded a first 
class position in Franco. Ho obtained but a 
third prize at the Exposition, and exhibited nine 
works. 
The Derby Atbeiueum. which is a Fine Art 
Lottery enterprise, creates a slight sensation 
whenever its drawing Of lucky and unlucky 
numbers occurs. The purchase of five dollars’ 
worth of books in the Atbomcuin, insure a 
ticket to the purchaser. At the last drawing, 
widen took place January 0, "ton thousand 
dollars" worth of pictures were disposed of- 
CON8TANT Mayer’s "Maud Muller,” valued at. 
$4,000, was drawn by Sylvan ius Samuel Snif¬ 
fer, or some such name. Everybody will bo 
ghul, it the picture is only drawn out of fight. 
11 lias been u permitted libel on Whittier's 
poem long enough. Imagine a semi-red haired 
girl, with blue eyes, in u snuff-colored merino 
dross, fashionably made, and with a black belt 
drawn so tightly about: her waist that you In vol¬ 
untarily send your hand out On a rummage for 
a pair of scissors to clip it, and give the Bad-faced 
creature a chance for a long breath—and all this 
out in a hot hay field, and then try to harmonize 
her with the "Maud Muller" we've read about, 
and feel acquainted with ; you find yourself with 
a metempsy. ho.doan affair on your hands. And 
yet, M AYER has painted the best " Maud " of any 
one of the numerous tribe who has yet at¬ 
tempted it. Among the other pictures were 
soma by Be Haas, (marine,) Mignot, (a water¬ 
scape.) BfliafeTADT, (landscape,) Kensett and 
Ban lows. 
William Von Kaulbach, one of whose great 
cartoons, "The Era of the Reformation," has 
found a resting place in America, has painted a 
window in the Parliament House of Edinburgh. 
It is an historical subject, "The King of Scot¬ 
land, Jamf. 8 V., inaugurating the College of 
Justice." it contains portraits of twenty-nine 
eminent men who assisted on the occasion. 
Kaulbach was the author of the cartoon, while 
tiie work was by Chevalier Ain.mu.ler, whose 
technical knowledge of glass and glass painting 
if nowhere excelled. The window Is a mosaic 
of pot-metal and coated glass. No colors are 
produced by enameling on white glass, except 
iu noceftMiry small parts of the heraldry. 80 
conscientious Is t he mosaic that parts of it meas¬ 
uring but one inch by u sixteenth of an inch are 
oepai ifi.ly leaded In. The entire number of 
separate pieces of the window Is prodigious. 
The contract price of the window was £2.000, of 
which Kaulbalu received £000 for his cartoon. 
Jambs Wilson MacDonald, the sculptor, is 
doing a good work in fash toning bis models from 
the American typo, rather than following In the 
ancient, and time-worn groove of copying from 
the antique, or Grecian models, which, grand 
and symmetrical as they may be, need not bo re¬ 
garded ao sacredly as to exclude new and vital 
types, more suitable to a new and untrammelled 
people as we take pride in styling ourselves. 
11 is “La Sormmmbula," which moves in the un- 
eonsious rapture of sleep, Is the best of his 
works. Tho work Isa difficult one—one in which 
a subtle, mysterious influence must be visible, 
and yet delicately ao. His subject Is a young, 
bat fully developed woman, of the American 
type, who 1ms loft her couch In a somnolent 
state, and with ftp antique lump held above her 
bead, moves earnestly along. Her night-robe 
falling from her shoulders, leaves her figure 
nearly nude. Rut, it is a nudity that Is strangely 
devoid of Die sense of naked ness, and is wholly 
relieved of the unpleasant or slight ly detracting 
atmosphere that so many statues and undraped 
figures engender in the enjoyment of even tin- 
prudish beholders. This, alone, would have In¬ 
sured thorough appreciation from art levers. 
This statue, iu marble, is valued at too thousand 
dollars. Mr, MacDonald is u leading spirit in 
i he new movement to secure protective legisla¬ 
tion from Congress, for every variety of Ameri¬ 
can art that may come under the enuopy of Finn 
Arts. His plan for taxing Imported arlJeles, is 
to prevent the importation of cheap and poor 
Objects by placing an increasing tariff on all 
subjects ranging from five hundred dollars down 
to one, and decreasing the tariff, proportion¬ 
ately, us the value increases, so that a picture 
worth five thousand dollars may lie imported 
free from tariff. He believes his plan will ex¬ 
clude poor works—or winch we mnrmfuotare 
enough ourselves and encourage the importa¬ 
tion of what is only really valuable, thereby 
keeping the market good for home productions; 
preventing the general importation ol bud for¬ 
eign daubs, and bringing only the best foreign 
aid to artists, as well as culture to the popular 
taste. 
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GUO UN 0 COFI l.i:. a>-.. «•».. WJe., :i'w., heat, 40c. per 
pound. Hotels, baleens. Boarding-houfic keepers, 
and Families who use largo uuitufltlcs of Coffee, can 
economic,- lu tied article bv using >etr FRENCH 
BREAKFAST AND DINNER Cui-FEE. which wo 
•v'd .Kk:. per ft., and wuiraut to 
(’KD (uuground), 
(unroaated). 26c., 
Hoc., Sic., best 35c. per ft. 
BKI'.AtVf AM •, U aiiVilf.u wr i 
sell at the low pr;ev of .iOe.par ft., i 
give Perfect satisfaction. ltuAs'ld 
S)c„ fj<x,bett Pie. per Si. GREEN (V 
NOTICE OF THU rXUESS. 
Fruiti Hi<i Anurimn Agriculturist, 
The Great Amfuican tea Comp any. -To 
Q ueries: Before admitting tucli advertisement, we 
learned that u large number of our clerks aud others 
bad tor ttevorul mouths been buying their ten and 
Cotlec from this Company, without Its being known 
who they were,n nil that tuny hud been highly pleased 
with their piirelnives, both as to quality and price, 
and were all recommending their friends to the same 
course. As we have iitihflshod the advertisement 
for utuny mouths, and received u«> complaints, we 
conclude " there is no humbug about the establish¬ 
ment." _ 
N. B.-INHABITANTS OF VILLAGES AND 
TOWNS WHERE A LARGE NUM¬ 
BER RESIDE, if Y f LI BRING TO¬ 
GETHER, CAN REDUCE THE 
COST OF THEIR TEA- AND COF¬ 
FEES ABOUT ONE-THIRD, BE- 
SJDES THE EXPRESS CI1A KGES, 
BY SENDING DIRECTLY TO 
“THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA 
COMPANY.” 
CX.UB OEU5ESR. 
Bprindi'ibld, Ill., Kept . 16. ISM. 
TotukGubat American Tlx Compasy. 
;il aud SI Vt*ey street. Now York. 
Please send ine by Merchants’Union Express the 
following bill of Tex, 2cc ; : 
J it. Imperial. ... .tj. Lamjdtear.atfi I 2&..J1 25 
1 BJutik... " .ut 100... 100 
10 .lava ( ottee, raw.. “ . .. tit. 35... 3 50 
1 Imperial .H.M.Lauipmm 125 .125 
1 Black .. " -fit 1011...1(H) 
10 Java Coffee, taw.. “ ..ut 85... 3 50 
3 imperial.B. B. Lloyd.at 1 2D... 3 75 
1 imperial.Horace Morgan..nt I 2(k.. 1 25 
1 Blaelt. •’ .at 1 25... 1 25 
;■ imperial.Simon String.., .at 1 25... 2 50 
5 Black . .Win. Bishop.at 1 00... 5 00 
3 l ucolor d.lapun...l. Mnrr.at 1 25... 3 75 
« .lavaCoffee,raw-U-A. Allan.ut B.5-.- 2 tSJ 
1 Imperial.A. Morris.ut 1 26... 500 
1 ■.: Imperial.ThOB. Higgins...at I 35. . 1 »8 
IS Black... " • .at J 00... 1 50 
Black.. A. Hiekox... ..at 1 00... 6 00 
3 Black.J. Farley.at I 00... 3 IX) 
2 Imperial. “ .at I Oil... 2 00 
IS imperial__Mr. Carey.at 125... 187 
ly Black. “ .at loo.. 150 
10 Eng’liBrcaluast..T.Hudson.,.at J 20..,12 00 
Ida 30 
Gents—A bovc I send my fourth order. Your Teas 
have given good satisfaction: and those who have 
used them will have no other, but induce their 
friends, to send also. To prove this : I had made up 
my order and got a Poston)cn Money Order, when 
outers came in and nearly doubled the amount, as 
you will see by second money order, both of which I 
enclose. 
The lust order came safely to bond by Merchants’ 
Union Express. Accept tit a tike for complimentary 
pui'kugo. Very respectfully, 8. LAMP 11 EAR. 
(Cnulion.—As ‘oitW concern)), in Ibis city and 
or lo r places, imitate our name and style of adrer- 
ttstiigurid doing buslueeA.ltis important that our 
friende should be very turnful to write our&adreas in 
full, and ujeotc, pm on the number of our Potttuffico 
Bov, us appear. In thbmdvert iaenicnt. This will pre¬ 
vent. tlielr orders from getting into the hands of 
these iFiqM'i imlUiton. 
POST-Or llOK Orders and Drafts, make payable to 
the ol der of " 77 m liiyat Avu ricttn Tm tom- 
pti.itII.Direct letters and orders as below—no 
more, no less: 
| ©SEAT AMERICAN TEA GO., | 
NOS. 31 AND 33 VE8EY ST., 
: Post-Office Box 5,643, New York City. : 
