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This species clearly belongs to the same group with those which 

 Professor Hall has figured under the name of Endoceras protei- 

 forme, in the 1st Vol. of the Palaeontology of New York. But on 

 measuring the figures in that work it will be seen that the pro- 

 portional distance of the septa to the diameter of the shell in that 

 species is between four and eight to one or six to one on an ave- 

 rage while in this species it is twenty to one. 



Locality and Formation. — The specimens were procured at 

 Kingston in the Black Biver Limestone. 



Collector. — The specimens were collected by Col. Gordon, B.A. 

 and by him presented to the Geological Survey. 



ARTICLE XIV. — Notices of the Life of the late Professor George 

 Wilson of Edinburgh. 



The University of Edinburgh has lately sufifered severely by the 

 death of several of its most distinguished teachers. The depart- 

 ment of science has been specially unfortunate. Since the death 

 of the venerable Jamieson, Professor Forbes, whose fine genius and 

 extensive erudition gave promise of an illustrious life, has been 

 laid in the sepulchre of his fathers ; and ere yet his country, and 

 we may say the world of science, had ceased to mourn for this 

 most gifted of her children, another equally honorable and beloved 

 has been laid in the dust. The name of Professor George Wilson, 

 whose recent appointment as Regius Director of the Industrial 

 Museum of Scotland and to the professorship of Technology in 

 the University of Edinburgh was hailed with so much satisfaction 

 by all who had any acquaintance either with his personal char- 

 acter or numerous contributions to literature and science, will we 

 are sure be held in lasting and affectionate remembrance. 



The most complete notice of his life and works which we have 

 yet seen is that contained in the February number of the North 

 British Review. The article is preceded by a list of no less than 

 sixty eight of his writings. They comprise original papers on 

 chemistry, biographical sketches of men eminent in science, seve- 

 ral contributions to popular and scientific literature with four 

 poems published in Blackwood's Magazine. The ability, research, 



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