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pursuit and the coincidence of their deaths. Both were men of fortune. a 
oth were designed for a worldly career. Both abandoned more am- 
bitious schemes in favor of science. Both achieved solid reputation. | 
Both were hard workers as well as clear thinkers ; and they entoyed in 
common that faculty for organization which is rarer in Englishmen than 
the faculty of observation. The Geological Society is the monument 
of Mr. Greenough, as the Museum of Practical Geology is that of Sir 
Henry De la Beche. ; 
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@ press. 
t reputation among men of science, with- 
kn 4 % Ak » Bri . , u . 
not a writer. More than thirty years age he published his one volume, — 
‘A Critical Examination of the First Prineip! f di 
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as the leader of their band, and he was one of the founders and wa! 
the first President of the London Geological Society.—Athen., April2 
10. A Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus, and on 
the Calculus of Variations; by Epwo. H. Courtenay, LL.D.—This 
work, though not published till after the death of its accomplished au- 
thor, has been written with great care. No work on the Transcend- 
ental Analysis has issued from the American press, since the republi- 
cation of Young’s Treatises, so full and extended as this. A noticea- 
Spicuity. 
A. B. 
11. Practical Meteorology ; by Joun Drew, Ph.D., F.R.A.S. 290 
2 
Pp-» 12mo. London, 1855. John Van Voorst,—This small volume 
was prepared in order to give to those who may be interested in prac 
tical meteorology, such information upon the general principles of m' 
_teorology in its different departments, and on the nature, choi 
