remark holds good with reference to one of his earliest 

 publications on the physical structure of the then little 

 understood and most complicated rocks of Devon and Corn- 

 wall; and in a later paper on the Geology of Dartmoor and 

 the north-west coast of Devon, in conjunction with his pupil 

 . and another departed veteran in science, Sir R. Murchison. 

 He then adopted a final classification of the Devonians, 

 removing them entirely from the old greywacke group, and 

 placing them amongst the old red sandstone, thus boldly 

 and correctly assigning them to a much more recent date 

 than had been originally given, and now universally adopted. 

 Besides these, he contributed papers on the abstruse question 

 of Slaty Cleavage; on the Alps and Rhenish ' provinces ; 

 and numerous other valuable memoirs on the classification 

 of many British formations. For these he received the 

 "Woolaston Medal from the Geological Society in 1851, and 

 was elected President of that Society, and also of the 

 British Association, to which he contributed many impor- 

 tant addresses and papers. His discourse on the studies of 

 the University of Cambridge enters most ably into the 

 wider field of science and religion, and points out the 

 connection of the two, and upholds with great force and 

 earnestness those great and noble truths which he so much 

 delighted to inculcate. The University of Cambridge owes 

 to his unwearied zeal, labour, and liberality, the splendid 

 and admirably arranged collection of fossUs which forms 

 one of its most attractive features to a Geologist, and ever 

 will remain a standing memorial of the great master mind 

 to which it mainly owes its origin and efficiency. Those 

 who like myself can remember the old Woodwardian 

 Museum, and who helped to arrange the specimens, under 

 the Professor's superintendence, which were then little used 



