26 Biographical Memoir of Sit Humphry Davy. 



moment to restore some of the recollections of his youth, but it 

 was only the last gleams of a torch about to be extinguished. 

 Having reached Geneva, without any symptoms that indicated 

 his end to be so near, he expired [suddenly in the night of the 

 28th and 29th of May 1829. 



Thus at the age of fifty years, and in a foreign land, was the 

 career finished of a genius whose name will shine with lustre 

 among the crowd of celebrated names of which Great Britain 

 has to boast. But why should I say a foreign land ? To such 

 a man no country can deserve that name, and least of all Geneva, 

 where he possessed numerous intimate friends and admirers, 

 who were continually occupied in spreading his discoveries over 

 the continent; the mourning, therefore, could not have been 

 greater, nor the obsequies more honourable, for one of their 

 most respected citizens. The Magistrates, the whole University, 

 students and professors, as well as all the foreigners in the town, 

 considered it their duty to assist ; each hastened to shew that 

 science is cosmopolitan ; and, as a mark of their highest esteem, 

 the Academy of Geneva accepted of a foundation made in 

 his honour by Lady Davy, by which a prize will be awarded 

 every two years to the newest and most useful chemical experi- 

 ments ; so that his name will still remain attached to the truths 

 long after to be discovered, in a science where his own disco- 

 veries were so important. 



FACTS RELATING TO DILUVIAL ACTION IN AMERICA. By the 



Hon, William Thompson. To Professor Silliman. 



Dear Sir, — When I had the pleasure of seeing you at New 

 Haven last autumn, I intimated my intention of sending you 

 my views of the geological features of Sullivan County, New 

 York, and hkewise the traces of diluvial action on the solid 

 strata, with some of the proofs that present themselves, in every 

 part of the county where the earth has been removed, so deep 

 as to come to firm rock, below the effects of frost and other de- 

 composing agents ; but the snow came on so early in the fall, 

 and my health has been so indifferent this spring, that I have 

 been obliged to defer it until the present time. Perhaps I shall' 

 not even now be able to write any thing new or interesting on 



