280 Sir R. I. Murchi son's Notes on the Alps and Apennines. 



that they would be useful. When a botanist who then knew him 

 only by a casual correspondence, lost his whole herbarium by fire, 

 Mr Oakes prompt letter of sympathy was accompanied by the sub- 

 stantial encouragement of a fine package of plants, with which to 

 commence the restoration, as well as with most cordial proffers of 

 further assistance. 



Mr Tuckerman has consecrated to the name of Oakes, already in- 

 separably connected with New England botany, a beautiful and highly 

 interesting evergreen, newly detected in several localities along our 

 eastern coast (Oakesia conrade, Tuckerm., which is finely figured in 

 the volume of the Memoirs of the American Academy, now just 

 published) ; but even if that genus be superseded, his name will not 

 perish from among us, nor the memory of his many virtues ; of his 

 active liberality, his manly and disinterested zeal, his untiring devo- 

 tion to science, and his pure love to the objects of his study, for their 

 own sake. — American Jourvial of Science and Arts. Second Series, 

 vol. vii., p. 138. 



On the Geoloffical Structure of the Alps^ Carpathians^ and 

 Apennines, more especially on the Transition from Secondary 

 to Tertiary Types, and the existence of vast Eocene Deposits 

 in Southern Europe. By Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 

 F.R.S., V.P.G.S., &c. ; Mem. Imp. Ac. Sciences of St 

 Petersburg, Corresp. Member of the Academies of Paris, 

 Berlin, Turin, &c.* Communicated by the Author, with 

 Corrections and Additions. 



This memoir, chiefly the result of the author's last excur- 

 sion on the Continent, consists of three parts : — the first of 

 which is an endeavour to bring up to the present standard of 

 knowledge the work on the Eastern Alps, published long ago 

 by Professor Sedgwick and himself,t and to extend the sur- 

 vey from that portion of the chain to Switzerland and Savoy. 

 The second part is a brief explanation of his present views 

 respecting the northern flank of the Carpathian mountains, 

 and the third relates to Italy and the Apennines. 



The Alps. — The central masses of the Eastern Alps, though 



• Abstract of a Memoir read before the Geological Society, Dec. 31, 1848, 

 and Jan. 17, 1849. 



t Trans. Geol. Soc. Lond., N. Ser., vol. iii., p. 301 ; and Phil. Mag., N. Ser., 

 vol. viii., Aug. 1830. 



