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Sedgwick, Phillips, and myself. If so, please to refer me to 

 your paper, which, if I mistake not, had an accompanying 

 diagram. In this case you will be happy to have your 

 views confirmed. 



" I connected the Plumpton Rocks with the red sandstone 

 which, underlying the magnesian limestone of Knares- 

 borough, is unequivocally PtTmian. But I could not con- 

 nect the two stratigraphically, and I came to my conclusion 

 merely through the close lithological similarit}^ of the 

 Plumpton Rocks to the well-known beds of the German 

 Rohte Liegende. 



" Never too late to admit errata to the end of my Chapter 

 of Life. 



" May you work on as steadily and successfully as you 

 have done in this, and many a year to come. 

 " Yours sincerely, 



"Rod. J. MuRCHisoN." 



Such a letter speaks volumes for the love of truth and the 

 kind heart of the deceased geologist whose loss is so deeply 

 deplored. 



The President said that, on Friday the 10th instant, he 

 observed, at Douglas, in the Isle of Man, a splendid display 

 of the aurora borealis. At 8 p.m. it appeared as an arch of 

 a greenish colour, extending from west to east, through the 

 tail of the Great Bear. Afterwards, at 10 o'clock, the same 

 kind of arch was observed with another higher up, which 

 ranged west and east through the Pole Star. At this time 

 numerous streamers and flashes of light of a green and 

 yellowish-white colour flashed up from near the horizon to 

 the zenith, from east, south, a^nd west ; those toAvards the 

 west had a reddish hue. The sky was beautifully clear and 

 the light from the aurora was greater than ever previously 

 observed by him. 



