Miscellaneous. . 
latter had the same origin as the deposits, and afterwards been 
elevated? or were they injected from beneath by igneous action or 
sublimation ?—Very lately a hematite-mine has been opened near 
the top of a hill in the neighbourbood of the Crinkle Crags, and a 
little to the south of Great Langdale.—Within the last four months 
the proprietor of one of the Frizington mines (Whitehaven) has 
commenced mining operations in the side of the highest Langdale 
Pike, called Harrison Stickle. A slide from the Pike down into 
Langdale is in progress; and an experienced miner, belonging to 
the Frizington district, assures me that the Langdale Pike will very 
soon become disfigured, in a few years greatly mutilated, and in 
course of time perhaps demolished! Now this Pike is well known 
by tourists to be the chief attraction of the prospect to be obtained 
from the eastern shore of Windermere Lake.—In the wild and little- 
known valley called Greenburn, between Little Langdale and the 
mountains called the Carrs, a copper-mine belonging to John Cross- 
field, Esq., of Ambleside, was lately abandoned. A Scotch gentleman 
has purchased the ‘plant’ within the last year, and by this time 
has probably commenced reopening. I have been informed that he 
hopes to be able to meet with granite at an accessible depth, his 
belief being that the nearer to granite, the greater is the chance of 
finding copper. Is it so?—D. M. 
A sust of WitneLM Harpincer, Director of the Geological Sur- 
vey of the Austrian Empire, is to be placed in one of the Saloons of 
the Imperial Geological Institute of Vienna, on February 5th. Very 
many of his friends and admirers in all parts of Europe, in Eng- 
land, and abroad, have united in offering this compliment to the 
veteran Geologist and Mineralogist by voluntary subscription. 
A very fine specimen of Jade or Nephrite, from Battugol, Mont 
Saians, Irkutzk, Siberia, weighing about 5 cwts., has just been con- 
signed to Mr. Bryce M. Wright, of 36 Great Russell Street, Blocms- 
bury. It is of a fine dark-green colour, and is the second largest 
specimen of this mineral in this country.* It was from Nephrite 
that the most highly-prized hatchets of the aborigines of the Pacific 
and of the old Swiss Lake-dwellings were wrought. A notice of 
some Chinese and New Zealand Nephrites is given in the Grot. 
Mae., Vol. I. p. 143. The specimen is now upon view. 
OxsituaRY Norice.—Professor BenzamMin Sr~itimman, M.D., LL.D., 
died at New Haven on the 24th November last, aged 84. He graduated 
at Yale in 1798; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1802. 
He afterwards accepted the Chair of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and 
Geology in Yale College; and in 1820 visited Europe to prosecute 
his studies in sciences which were at that time almost unknown in 
America. He returned after an absence of fourteen months, and 
published in 1821 an interesting ‘Journal of Travels in England, 
Holland, and Scotland.’ He revisited this country again in 1851; 
and again printed his notes, entitled ‘ Narrative of a Visit to Europe 
in 1851’ (2 vols. 8vo.). In 1807, he made an analysis of a meteo- 
* The largest specimen is in the British Museum, and was brought by M. Alibert, 
from the same locality, for the International Exhibition of 1862. 
