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the truth of Werner's opinion as to the Neptunian origin of the pu- 
mice and obsidian (even that of the Lipari Island), as well as of 
trap and granite. A translation of his remarks on the Geological 
History of the Globe was published in the Edinburgh New Philo- 
sophical Journal, (1827) vol. vi. p. 107. The most important portion 
of this paper consists in its bearing his evidence to show that the 
greater part of Norway has, at some period, been covered with ice, 
and that the granite blocks, so abundant in that country, have been 
brought to their present place by glaciers. 
In 1829 Professor Esmark published a Tour in Norway*, con- 
taining many measurements of heights, and he was the first to mea- 
sure the lofty mountain of Schneehatten. He also published various 
detached Memoirs on Mineralogyt. 
He is said by Otte to have been the first discoverer of chromate 
of iron in Norway; and the Norwegian datolite, which was also 
discovered by him in 1806, was at that time named Esmarkite. 
He published a short notice on tellurium, in the 3rd vol., Ist se- 
ries, of our Transactions. 
His residence at Christiania, in the vicinity of iron, copper, and 
silver mines, and of the School of Mines and Agriculture at Konigs- 
berg, gave full scope to his taste and talents, and also afforded oc- 
casion for the exercise of those courteous attentions which have, 
during many years, been gratefully acknowledged by scientific tra- 
vellers in Norway. 
He once came to England, and was a member of the Wernerian 
Natural History Society of Edinburgh. 
He was an excellent chess-player; and in appearance, countenance, 
and the fine form of his head, resembled Mr. Davies Gilbert, whom it 
has been my painful duty to associate with him in the catalogue of 
the losses we have sustained during the last year. 
Don Cartos pe GimBERNAT, Member of the Royal Academy 
of Sciences at Munich, was the son of a physician of Barcelona, and, 
from political motives left his native country at the commencement 
of the French Revolution for Paris, where he passed many years. 
He had previously studied at Freyberg under Werner, and visited 
England, where he became acquainted with Townsend, our Spanish 
* Reis von Christiania nach Drontheim. 
+ In the Magazin for Naturnidenskaberne. 
