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Natural PMlosophy in Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, which post 

 he held for three years, when he came -to Europe, chiefly for the 

 prosecution of scientific researches. During this visit he turned his 

 attention more especially to the study of geology, and on his return 

 to the United States almost immediately entered upon his great un- 

 dertaking, — the geological srawey 'of the States of New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania. This work, the result of twenty-two years of uninter- 

 mittent industry, consists of three large quarto volumes, illustrated 

 with numerous engravings, and geological maps and sections of 

 Pennsylvania and its Coal-fields. It at once established Professor 

 Eogers' claim to a high position in the scientific world. Besides the 

 local geologj^ it contains a general view of the geology of the 

 United States, essays on the Coal-formation and its, fossils, and 

 a description of the Coal-fields of North America and Great Britain. 

 It was published in 1858, but Professor Eogers, in his official 

 capacity of State Geologist, had previously brought out five annual 

 reports on the geology of Pennsylvania, and two on New Jersey, 

 published between the years 1836-1841. Professor Eogers con- 

 tributed a sketch of the Geology of the United States to Keith John- 

 ston's Physical Atlas (1856). He has- published many original 

 papers in the American Journal of Science, the Proceedings of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, the Transactions of the American 

 Philosophical Society, the Eeports of the British Association, and the 

 Proceedings of the Geological Society of London. He also de- 

 livered a lectm-e on the origin of the Parallel EoadSrOf Lochaber 

 (Glen Eoy), before the Eoyal Institution, on March 22nd, 1861. In 

 the last number of the Geological Magazine (p. 258), we reported 

 two papers on Coal and Petrolemn which Professor Eogers read at 

 Norwich in AjDril last, notwithstanding that he was so unwell as to 

 be obliged to sit the whole time, and to a great part of the assembly 

 his discourse was inaudible. 



Professok oe Natural Histoky in the University of Glasgow. 

 — We have very gTcat pleasure in announcing that Dr. John Young, 

 F.E.S.E., F.G.S., is the successful candidate for the chair of Natural 

 History in the University of Glasgow, rendered vacant by the death 

 of Prof. H. D. Eogers. Dr. Young is an able Comparative Anatomist 

 and Physiologist, and is well versed in general Zoology ; his Natural 

 History studies began under Professor Goodsir, and the late Professor 

 E. Forbes, in the University of Edinburgh, of which he is a Doctor 

 of Medicine. For the last five years he has been engaged, as a field 

 geologist, on the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and during 

 that time he has done much detailed work in Geology and Palceon to- 

 logy. In June 1864, he communicated to the Geological Society of 

 London a paper on the former extension of glaciers in the high- 

 grounds of the south of Scotland,' and he has recently read, before 

 the same Society, several important papers on Fossil Ichthyology. 



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