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have been partially denudated; the anomalous manner in which the 
limestone overlies the old red sandstone of Kirkby Lonsdale is, he 
says, another instance, The principal north and south faults of the 
Ludlow rocks, and a portion of the Windermere schist, between 
Windermere and the Lune, are, however, considered by the author 
to be of later origin than the mountain limestone, and he particularly 
refers to the disturbances at Natlands, Farleton Knot, Hutton Roof, 
Lupton Fell, Witherslack, Whitbarrow and Kendal Fell, Lastly, 
the author calls attention to the successive elevation of hills in one 
direction by forces acting at different periods as a phenomenon which 
has not received the thought it deserves; and he points out as an 
instance the Windermere schists forming the high chain of Middle- 
ton and Casterton Fells, which chains, he says, were elevated from 
the north at the period of the eruption of the Shap granite, nearly as 
they are at present, for they formed, he states, the boundary of the 
great hollow in which the Ludlow rocks were deposited; and the 
great faults which cross the Fells in an east and west direction were, 
he is of opinion, formed at the same period, the mountain limestone 
not havmg been broken through by the faults in which the Rathay, 
the Dee, and the Barbon traverse the chain: yet this chain of hills 
has been elevated, he adds, in the same north and south direction 
subsequently to the deposition of the mountain limestone, the whole 
band of limestone resting upon their eastern flanks having been 
thrown up to a high angle, and in some places much disturbed. 
In consequence of the unanimous consent to the proposition moved 
at the Meeting held on the 19th January by Mr. Greenough, and 
seconded by Mr. Horner, that the President should ascertain whether 
His Majesty the King of Prussia would condescend to allow his name 
to be enrolled in the list of royal personages, and that if the permis- 
sion were obtained the President should make the necessary arrange- 
ments to carry the same into effect, Mr. Murchison stated at this Meet- 
ing, from the Chair, that having ascertained from His Excellency the 
Chevalier Bunsen, that His Majesty would accept this tribute on the 
part of the Society, he had, in the presence of one of the Vice-Presi- 
dents, the Secretaries, the Treasurer, and several of the Fellows, re- 
quested His Majesty to inscribe his name in the Obligation Book of 
the Society, assurmg him at the same time, ‘that English geolo- 
gists can never forget the debt of gratitude they owe to the country 
which has produced a Von Humboldt, a Von Buch, and an Ehren- 
berg, nor to the Monarch who is the Friend and Patron of those di- 
stinguished men.” 
