40 MEMOIR OF WERNER. 



whither be had gone in the hope of some alleviation 

 of his sufferings. 



It seems as if fortune liad brought him to this ca- 

 pital, that he might there receive the most solemn 

 honours. The most illustrious persons in the king- 

 dom assisted at his obsequies. M. BoBttiger, a dis- 

 tinguished philosopher, publicly pronounced his fu- 

 neral oration. The most celebrated academies of 

 Germany have already paid him the same tribute 

 which we this day render to him, and which will be 

 decreed to him, under one form or other, in every 

 quarter of the world where any branch of the science 

 of the Earth is cultivated. 



ACCOUNT OF THE WERNERIAN NATURAL HISTORY 

 SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



[From Blackwood's Magazine for June 1817.] 



To determine the utility of Natural History, it is 

 scarcely necessary to do more than to enumerate its 

 various branches by which it will be seen in its most 

 convincing form. In truth the coirectness of this 

 opinion requires no proof, since the general attention 

 which lias, within a few years, been excited to the 

 study of every department of natural knowledge, 

 must have rendered every illustration that can i)e 

 oifered perfectly familiar to our Headers. This be- 



