146. Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
district, and. alone would be a monument to a man of science, if he had 
never executed any other labor.” 
The biographical notice goes on to mention his labors in various sut- 
veys, including that of the copper mines of Cuba, and then speaks of 
his very valuable work on the ‘ Statistics of Coal,” mentioned in this 
Journal, vol. vi, p. 150—a monument of vast industry, learning 
ju ' 
which he had discovered there, he left with his friend, Prof. Agassi 
who was to describe the new ones for him. All these Mr. Taylor 
mens. 
r. Taylor was the third son of Samuel Taylor, of New rege? 
the aul 
of the H lorfolk 
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ebrew Concordance. He was born at Banham, in Norfol% 
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younger brother, Edgar Taylor, 
Jegal profession in London 
veral works, and remarkable for his numerous learned 1 
bechaiae published ‘In the most prominent periodicals in Great Brital 
His cousin, Richard Taylor, is the well-known and able editor of the 
Philosophical Magazine, which has been the leading scientific Joural! 
of England for the last twenty-five years. John and Phillip we 
~— distinguished as mining engineers : | 
Me 
ical Society of London, and of the Society of Civil Engineers, of th# 
place. In this country he was a tieshibibe of this Pret te as befor 
mentioned ; of the American Philosophical Society ; of the Geologict 
Society of Pennsylvania; of the American Association of Geolog'** 
and Naturalists, of the Franklin Institute, dc. é&c.” 
* Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 
