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Tisha series of types of these groups, many of which have 
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on the ovlite formation at Churchill, in the county of Oxford, Teh 
1769. When a child, he was in the habit of collecting terebratu 2 
from the oolite rocks in the fields of his native village, which he used Ke 
as substitutes fur marbles. He had often expressed a wish tobe buried 
in this formation, on which he was born and educated, and the his- aa 
tory of which he had so much elucidated. He was interred in ee 
church-yard of the beautiful Norman church of St. Peter, in North: :mp> 
ton, which stands on the oolite formation. ee ee 
Sir John St. Aubyn, who died in 1840, was one of the founders and 
early vice-presidents of the Geological Society. — *& 
Brigadier Charles Silvertop, F. G. S., died at Rennes, in June, 
1840, on his way to the Pyrenees and Italy. He did much to elucidate : 
the geology of Spain. 
Jeus Esmark, Professor of Mine , he University of Chris- 
tiana, was one of the many disciples o Schdol of Freyberg, and 
became deeply imbued with th f er. He published 
his tour through Hungary, 1 Vv 08 ; also, 1829, his tour in 
Norway ; also, many detached m '$ on mineralogy. He discove 
ered the chromate of iron in Norway, also the Norwegian datholite in ' 
1806, which was then called Esmarkite. ‘ 
Frederick Mohs, Professor of Mineralogy in Vienna, was born at 
Gernrode, in the Hartz mountains, about 1770. He wasa pupil of 
Werner, and succeeded to his chair of mineralogy in the Mining — 
Academy at Freyberg, but in 1826 went to reside at Vienne 4 
of Mineralogy and Superintendent of the Imperial Cabinet. 40 
he published “a detached account illustrated with a ground plan of 
the mines and mining operations at Himmelsfirst, near Freyberg.” 
His great work on Mineralogy, or the Natural History of the Mineral 
Kingdom, is best known in this country by its translation, published at | 
Edinburgh, with considerable additions by his pupil, Mr. William Hei- 7 
dinger, in 1825, 3 vols. 8vo. He died in Italy, 20th Sept. 1839,.at 
Agardo, near Belluno, having undertaken a tour into that count or 2 
the purpose of studying the phenomena of volcanoes. a 
Death of Littrow.—Science has suffered a severe loss in the recent | 
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death of the celebrated astronomer, Von Littrow, Director of the Ob. a 
servatory and Professor of Astronomy in the University of Vienma-— 
Vienna, Dec. 3, 1840. N. ¥. Jour. of Com. 
Death of Poisson.—M. Poisson, universally known as an eminent 
mathematician and philosopher, died at Paris, April 25, 1840, aged 58: 
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