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would be formed on the other side of the: Molluse’s track ; and the 
observer would at once pronounce the marks to be due to a gigantic 
Crossopodia, or fringe-footed Annelide.—Yours truly, 
A. Bryson. 
Hawkhill, Edinburgh. 
MISCHELiIANEHOUS. 
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Tue Farconer Memortat.—At a meeting held in London on the 
25th of February, Sir Proby T. Cautley, K.C.B., in the chair, it was 
resolved to record the great loss sustained by Science in the early 
death of the late Dr. Hugh Falconer, and to perpetuate his name as 
a Naturalist and a Scholar by a suitable Memorial. It was unani- 
mously resolved that this Memorial should include a Marble Bust, to 
be placed in the rooms of one of the Scientific Societies, or else- 
where, in London, as might be determined. One of the objects in 
which the late Dr. Falconer took deep interest, up to the latest hour 
of his life, was the foundation of Fellowships or Scholarships in the 
University of Edinburgh, to enable deserving students to prolong 
their studies beyond the usual academical period. It was therefore 
further resolved to collect funds for the purpose of founding, in that 
University, a Fellowship or Scholarship in Natural Science, tenable 
for a limited term of years, and to be called ‘ The Falconer Fellow- 
ship’ or ‘Scholarship’ The Presidents of the Royal, Linnean, 
Geological, Geographical, and Ethnological Societies, and many 
other friends and admirers of Dr. Falconer, have formed a Committee 
for promoting the objects of the ‘ Falconer Memorial.’ 
THE LATE EARTHQUAKE IN THE NortH oF ENGLAND.—On 
Wednesday, the 15th of January, an earthquake of very unusual 
severity occurred in Morecambe Bay, and the neighbouring district 
of Furness. The following account of the more striking effects is 
abridged from a long article in the ‘ Barrow Herald’ of Feb. 18th: 
—About three minutes past 11 a.m., the people of Barrow were 
terror-stricken by an earthquake-wave which came in the direction 
of Salthouse Marsh, and passed along towards Hindpool, where it 
would appear to have terminated. So far as yet known, the vibra- 
tion would appear to have commenced at Mickle Island in More- 
cambe Bay, where it threw up large volumes ef sand and stones to 
the height of 5 or 6 feet. Two distinct shocks were felt there, fol- 
lowing each other at an interval of five minutes. Roa Island, close 
by, suffered severely. At the Pier Hotel the walls and ceilings 
were cracked, and bottles, plates, &c., were thrown down. ‘The 
cellar seems to have escaped injury. Great fissures were made in 
the earth 3800 yards from the hotel, towards the railway-embank- 
ment. At Westfield, Pease Holmes, and Rampside (on the coast), 
which seems to have suffered most, walls, ceilings, roofs, and chim- 
neys of houses and outbuildings were fissured or severely injured by 
the shocks: indeed, there are many instances of cracked, bulging, and 
fallen walls and chimneys. Furniture was thrown down; and in 
