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since presented to the Carlisle Museum by his sister, Mrs. Pearson 

 of Penrith, will ever remain as a memorial of his long-continued 

 and patient researches in this direction. Harkness's first memoir 

 on these fossils appeared shortly afterwards. 



But along with the rocks just referred to, occur, on the northern 

 side of the Basin of the Solway, other rocks more familiar to him 

 at that time than the Silurians could have been. Harkness was 

 evidently struck with the general resemblance between this tract of 

 New Red Rocks, and the one he had just before been studying 

 in Lancashire. The study of the phenomena observable in the 

 one threw more or less light upon the geological relations of the 

 other. Accordingly, seeing the New Red of the neighbourhood of 

 his birthplace by the help of the additional light he had just gained 

 in Dumfries, Harkness again turned his attention to the subject, 

 and, at the meeting of the British Association in Edinburgh, just 

 now referred to, after reading a paper on the "Position of the 

 Footsteps in the Bunter Sandstone of Dumfriesshire," we find him 

 following the subject up with a Notice of the Occurrence of a 

 Tridactylous Footmark from the Bunter Sandstone of Western 

 Point, Cheshire, which formed the first of his contributions to the 

 "Annals and Magazine of Natural History." I have referred to 

 these two papers at some little length for two reasons. The first 

 is that, as the paper on the New Red of Dumfries was read at the 

 same meeting of the British Association where Sedgwick was 

 exhibiting the Graptolites from the Moffat rocks M'Coy had just 

 named for him, the great master of Palaeozoic Geology, ever ready 

 as he was to come forward with generous aid to any fellow-worker, 

 could not fail to have had his interest aroused in the author of a 

 paper relating to that tract of New Red Rocks whose eastern 

 extension in Cumberland and Westmorland he had himself lately 

 been writing about. And we have evidence that the friendly 

 relations thus commenced remained unaltered to the day of Sedg- 

 wick's death. 



In 1849, Harkness paid his first visit to Cumberland. From 

 that dale his name was destined to be permanently associated with 

 the Geology of the North of England. 



