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great passage in safety, and stood looking back to us in humble grateful 
tnumph from the other side. 
is honored name with those of the men most distinguished in our day, 
_ 48 fellow-workers in building up the stately fabric of the modern geology. 
| ** To Mr. Miller, more than any other geologist, undoubtedly belongs 
the honor of having demonstrated, what previous observers had begun to 
‘Suspect, that the Old Red Sandstone was entitled to rank as an independ- 
ent formation, by its distinctive fossils, many of which he was the first to 
_ Giscover and describe. Mr. Miller had projected, and had advanced far 
4 book as Oliver Goldsmith might have written, had he been a naturalist, 
which he was not. * * * To Mr. Miller's versatile talents, and the 
Yaried contributions of his pen to criticism, art, philosophy, and science, 
S applicable, also, more than to any other writer of the day, the pane- 
syle pronounced upon Goldsmith, that there was no branch of knowl- 
edge which he did not touch, and which, touching, he did not adorn. 
> most profound work, the “Footprints of the Creator, or the Astero- 
lepis of Stromness,” is a contribution to natural theology of inestimable 
It has been adopted as a text book by some of the most 
“Thousands here and in other lands will join with us in the tribute of 
an honest tear to the memory of a man of true heart and noble powers 
of Intellect, devoted to the loftiest purposes. Little did we think, when 
We met Mr. Miller last year, in the genial and kindly intercourse of the 
B Association, that we were to see his face no more; and that at 
the early age of fifty-four, he would be lost to the Church which he 
loved, and to the cause of Christian science, which owes so much to his 
*xample and labors. Death has made sad inroads of late years upon the 
of the cultivators of natural science. Dr. Landsborough, Professor 
Edward Forbes, Dr. Johnston of Berwick, Mr. Yarrell, and now Mr. cae 
e Miller, have passed away in rapid succession,—and Forbes and 
have left: behind them no equals.” 
