292 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
bed of the ocean, which he had acquired by means of the dredge, that 
gave his opinions weight, and which enabled him to determine points 
in the age and relationship of the strata of the earth that had hitherto 
sions, which he made a point of taking with his pupils, in the neighbor- 
hood of London. Nor were these excursions attended by pupils alone. 
Many are the distinguished men of science in London who sought this 
opportunity of availing themselves of his great practical knowledge of 
every department of natural history. It was during the delivery of his 
first course of lectures ‘ On Botany’ that he worked out the interesting 
relations that exist between. the morphology of the reproductive system 
of the Sertularian Zoophytes and its analogy with that of flowering 
plants. His paper on this subject was read at the British Association, 
at York, in 1844. 
e€ now also obtained the appointment of Librarian and Curator to 
the Geological Society. occupied this position till his appointment 
to the Paleontological Department of the Museum of Economic Geol- 
ogy in 1846. : 
Although the chief part of his time was now occupied in the pract- 
cal details of paleontology, he still found leisure to arrange some 0 
‘the vast mass of original matter which he had collected during his 
dredging excursions. In 1848 he wrote for the Ray Society a ‘ Mono- 
graph on the British Naked-eye Meduse.’ This work was beautifully 
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