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departments, chiefly, as far as is yet known, in the west, centre, 

 and south-west of Erance. The shocks are estimated to have taken 

 eight or ten seconds. At Limoges it seems to have been severe and 

 accompanied by a noise compared to that of trains passing through a 

 tunnel, and in the houses, according to letters received, the beds 

 moved, the crockery and glass clattered, the bells rang, and the in- 

 habitants were all on foot. In the neighbourhood of Paris I know of 

 persons who got out of bed in alarm, thoroughly roused by the first 

 shock. Earthquakes are complete novelties in nearl}^ all the districts 

 where we know of this one having been felt. At Niort there was a 

 slight shock a fortnight ago. — Times, Sept. 17th. 



Death of M. Louis S^mann, Memb. Instit., etc. 



During the Meeting of the British Association at Nottingham, the 

 Editor received the following sad announcement : — 



To tlie Editor of the Geological Magazine. 



SiK, — I have the sad duty to advise you of the death of my friend 

 Lotus SiEMANN. He died the 23rd instant, in Paris, of congestion 

 of the lungs, at the age of 44. It is a loss to science and his 

 numerous friends, and particularly to your Magazine, for which he 

 wrote a pamphlet "On Meteorites,"^ in course of publication, and 

 which he had not the satisfaction to see in print before his decease. 



I am, sir, very truly yours, 



Jules Makcou. 

 Paris : 44, Eue Madame, 26 August, 1866. 



Charles Maclaeen, Esq., E.E.S.E., F.G-.S., died at his residence, 

 Moreland Cottage, Grange, Edinburgh, on Monday, September 10th, 

 at the advanced age of 84. He was bom in 1782. In 1817, when 

 holding a subaltern office in the Customs, he established, in connec- 

 tion with the late Mr.W. Eitchie, the Scotsman newspaper, and acted 

 as its anonymous editor for four or five months. Circumstances ren- 

 dering it inconvenient for him to appear as editor, he relinquished 

 that post to the late Mr. J. E. M'Cullock. He resumed it, however, 

 after an interval of two years, and continued to exercise the editorial 

 fvmctions until compelled by ill -health to resign them in 1847 ; still, 

 however, writing occasionally for the paper, when placed under the 

 management of Mr. A. Eussell. He was the author of "A Treatise 

 on the Topography of Troy." (1822), of which, after visiting the 

 district, he published an improved and illustrated edition in 1863, 

 under the title of " The Plain of Troy Described." He also wrote 

 "The Geology of Fife and the Lothians" (1839) ; some articles in 

 the Oyclopcedia Britannica, and contributed many scientific papers to 

 the Edinburgh Philosojyhical Journal. Mr. Maclaren was one of the 

 chief promoters of the Edinburgh Geological Society, and was elected 

 President in 1865, which office he held until the time of his death, 

 though unable to deliver the annual address, which was supplied by 

 Mr. David Page, and entitled " Geology and Modem Thought." 



^ See the Geological Magazine for August, p. 362, and September, p. 414* 



