them, if they conscientiously discharge 

 their new duties, from further advancing 

 the cause of science, and that, too, at the 

 moment when their labours would natur- 

 ally bear the richest fruits 1 ." 



The statement in this quotation that 

 from the time of his entering upon his 

 clerical duties, Michell " appears to have 

 entirely discontinued his scientific pur- 

 suits " was doubtless based on the fact 

 that after the appearance of his Earth- 

 quake paper he never published any fur- 

 ther contribution to geological science. 

 We may well believe that his clerical 

 duties were always conscientiously and 

 zealously discharged. But up till near the 

 close of his life he never ceased to pursue 

 his scientific studies. In regard to his 

 geological proclivities we have seen that 

 so far from abandoning that subject he 



1 LyelPs Principles of Geology^ Tenth Ed. vol. i, 

 p. 61. To this testimony should be added that of 

 Fitton, Phil. Mag. 1832, I, p. 268: K. A. von Zittel, 

 Geschichte der Geologie (1899), pp. 8l, 157. Michell 

 is included in the author's Founders of Geology^ 1897. 



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