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collect the odium which was attached to the very- 

 name — we cheerfully offer the tribute so merited by 

 him, to whose intelligence, liberality, and unwearied 

 diligence, we owe all that true spirit of mineralogi- 

 cal inquiry now abroad, and which bids fair to place 

 our country among the first where such studies have 

 been successfully cultivated. While we thus bestow 

 praise where it is due, we cannot refrain from ten- 

 dering our mite to the Geological Society of Lon- 

 don, which has done so much towards elucidating 

 the internal structure of England. Sincerely must it 

 be wished, by every true lover of science, that these 

 two societies may cordially co-operate in their com- 

 mon objects. Let this be the case, and we shall 

 anxiously apply to them the spirit of the dying ad- 

 dress of Father Paul to his country — " Estote per- 

 petua.** 



