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Notes on Foreign Geology and Mineralogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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page 76 note * See Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. ix , p. 353, &c, for a paper by Mr. Davidson, on some Devonian Spirifers and other shells from China, where these fossils also are used as medicine. See also ‘Notes on Chinese Materia Mediea,’ by Daniel Hanbuiy, F.L.S., 1862, where we find fossil teeth of mastodon, elephant, rhinoceros, horse, hippotherium, and other mammals, as well as two species of fossil crabs, are recorded as highly valued in the East for medicines.—Edit.

page 76 note † Ann. der Chem. und Pharm., cxxix. 375.Google Scholar

page 76 note † Ann. der Chem. und Pharm., cxxix. 213.Google Scholar

page 77 note * Computes Rendus de l'Acad. des Sciences, lviii. No. 16.Google Scholar

page 78 note * Corrected by Haughton, 5·48.—Edit.

page 78 note † The tooth of Pliosaurus grandis, in the British Museum, from the Kimmeridgo Clay of Dorset, measures 12 inches in length!—Edit.