= Miscellaneous Intelligence. 147 
Being supported in this recommendation, the nucleus of the Museum 
hie hae 
of Practical Geology was formed in an apartment in Craig 
__ Laboratory was added to the Museum, and placed under the care of 
_ the late Richard Philips. The business of the Geological Survey was 
_ greatly extended, and the Paleontological department was superin- 
tended by the late Edward Forbes. The Mining Record Office was 
also, at the recommendation of the British Association, united to the 
Museum. In 1839, the sanction of the Treasury was obtained for Lee- 
tures on Geology, and its associated sciences, in their application to the 
useful purposes of life. Owing to the deficiency of room, it was not 
possible to commence these lectures until 1851; ilding i 
Belgians. 
eyond the w 
€ ie Boche'Ptblished a voluminous report on the ‘ Geological Survey 
of Cornwall, Devonshire, and West Somerset,’ ‘ Researches in Theo- 
elical Geology,’ and ‘ How to Observe.’ In the various journals will 
be found forty papers and memoirs; and in 1851 Sir Henry de la 
Beche completed his last work, ‘The Geological Observer,’ founded 
H Il the 
upon his former work ‘How to Observe.’ In a 
tion which mark the rare union of a skillful scientific observer and a 
| . 
Sir Henry de la Beche raised for himself a splendid memorial of his 
power and the sustaining influence—under which the Museum of Prac- 
tical Geology and the School of Mines were formed and have been sup- 
ed 
4 
iy 
ported. 
_ G. B. Greenough.—Seldom does it fall to our share of melancholy 
_ daty to record two such losses in one week as le la Beche and Greenough, 
_ The two men had something in common besides devotion to a common 
Si 
iat. 
a 
Pin 
Wey 
sass 
