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the death of his old master, Prof. Jameson, was announced in this 
metropolis. The universal voice of science was not slow in re- 
ready to congratulate him on the prospect of thus reaching the 
highest goal which a true naturalist could desire, we looked for- 
ward with regret to the prospect of his removal from our circle. 
Nor was this grief altogether free from a feeling of shame, that 
this vast city, with its wealth, its display, its riches, its public and 
private associations, its great collections, its lavish expenditure, 
and in many respects its unbounded liberality, could propose no 
prize, no reward to the scientific man worthy to be placed in 
speedily destroyed. 
Prof. Forbes was appointed to the vacant Chair of Natural His- 
tory in the University of Edinburgh. He had thus obtained the 
great object of his life. An intimate friend, writing in one of the 
private individuals, he would have been enabled in a few years 
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house filled with the treasures of many years’ collecting, fell to 
pieces before our eyes, and nothing remained but the broken frag- 
ments and the shattered scaffolding, to be again dispersed an 
scattered, without system and without order, until they should be 
again hereafter collected together with infinite labor and fatigue 
by some future master-mind. 
Szconp Serirs, Vol. XX, No. 60.—Nov., 1855. 49 
