Catalogue of the organic remains, which, with other geological and some mineral articles, were presented to the New-York Lyceum of Natural History, in August 1826 / by their associate, Samuel L. Mitchill.

Samuel L. Mitchill

Date:: 1826

Credit: Catalogue of the organic remains, which, with other geological and some mineral articles, were presented to the New-York Lyceum of Natural History, in August 1826 / by their associate, Samuel L. Mitchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$37. Other specimens of petrified wood, from different localities: one called hickory stone, from Calvert count}', .Maryland ; another from Mexico, being a piece of petrified oak, called there sughero, or the cork tree.—Professor Del Rio. * 38. A tray of petrified madrepores, called petrified buf¬ falo horns; believed to have been found at the falls of Ohio. 39. Two pieces of bone, apparently of some cetaceous animal; from a stratum abounding in marine shells, 60 miles from Charleston, S. C.—Dr. Thomas. 40. A curious piece of petrified‘wood, from the Chock- taw country, 100 miles east of Natchez; one end of which is black, and the other white.—P. C. Goercy. N° IV. The fourth Shelf 1. Half a dozen specimens of the clay slate, or blaes, abounding with impressions of ferns and palms, in the coal districts of Pennsylvania. (a) Part of a large frond, overlaying the anthracite of Berks county, near the sources of the Schuylkill.—Mrs. Bailey. (b) Saginaria and filices, from the superincumbent rocks in the coal tract near Wilkesbarre. (c) Cryptogamic impressions in the coal slate of Pitts¬ burgh. 2. A nodule of argillaceous iron, about the size of a small loaf of bread; disclosing, by being split into two parts, the stems and leaves of ferns, very distinctly, on its fractured surfaces. Derbyshire, England. 3. A piece of calcareous rock, raised from the bottom of the sea, on weighing anchor, near one of the Bahama keys. It abounds with shells, such as bullas, scallops, and$