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illustrated from drawings made by himself. It was characterized by 
the same extensive research and accuracy of detail that distinguished 
his ‘ History of Starfishes,’-—and is one of the most important contri- 
butions ever made to this department of natural-history literature. No 
peared in the first volume of the ‘ Memoirs of the Geological Survey 
of Great Britain.” This paper, which may be regarded as a work on 
the subject, is entitled ‘On the Connection between the Distribution of 
the existing Fauna and Flora of the British Isles, and the Geological 
Changes which have affected their area.’ In this work the happy com- 
bination of great botanical and zoological knowledge is made to bear 
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lighter literary occupations,—contributing to more than one periodical. 
e will not speak of his contributions to the Atheneum, though they 
Were many and valuable. His article on ‘Shellfishes, their Ways an 
Works,’ in the first number of the new series of the Westminster Re- 
vrew, is a gem in its way; and the brilliant article on ‘ Siluria,’ in the 
last number of the Quarterly, was from his pen. At the time of his 
death he was engaged on several works, The one which he early an- 
to complete. Another, the ‘ Zoology of the European Seas,’ is nearly 
Rt printed:. He was also preparing for publication the results of his 
researches in the Augean. + ha 
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erick I. Murchison and Sir Charles Lyell, who bore willing testimony 
{0 the genius of their youthful successor. In 1854, he was appointed 
President of the Geological Section of the British Association. He 
ms ey elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and appointed a mem- 
t its uncil. 
When the “aie of Prof. Jameson rendered it necessary that a suc- 
essor should be appointed, all interested in the prosperity of the Uni- 
‘Versity of Edinburgh looked to Prof. Forbes as his successor. He ob- 
