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author. With the frankness and generosity which belong to his char- 

 acter, he bestows upon Leopold Von Buck, the veteran geologist of 

 Prussia, the well deserved honor of the WoUaston medal, and annexes 

 to the annunciation a sketch of those numerous and important labors of 

 his, which are less known than his great classical works. 



He announces also the bestowment, by the council of the Geological 

 Society, of the Wollaston fund for the past year upon Mr. Morris, to as- 

 sist him in preparing a table of British organic remains. In the pain- 

 ful duty of naming members who have died during the late year, he 

 mentions, with just eulogy, the name of Sir Francis Chantrey, the 

 great sculptor ; Mr. J. E. Bowman, whose valuable papers in the 

 Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society we have perused 

 with much interest and advantage ; also, Mr. Thomas Edington of 

 Glasgow, Mr. Snow of Highgate, Dr. Yelloly, and the Rev. Mr. 

 McEnery. 



The President having returned from a second geological tour through 

 Russia, (mentioned in Vol. XLi, p. 207,) announces with well merited 

 satisfaction, the vast expansion of the Silurian system in that empire, 

 and in many other parts of the world, but above all other foreign coun- 

 tries, he remarks, " North America appears to be rich in rocks of the 

 same age. Of this fact, indeed, the Geological Society received the 

 clearest evidence in the excellent section of Mr. James Hall, and the 

 fine suite of American minerals which accompanied it." In a note he 

 adds, " I was very much struck with the clear, unpretending and work- 

 manlike manner in which Mr. Hall had the kindness to communicate 

 his views to myself, respecting the Silurian and other Palseozoic rocks 

 of the United States." 



He objects, and we think with good reason, to an attempted subversion 

 of his own nomenclature of the lower fossiliferous rocks, which he, 

 being the first thoroughly to explore, had a full right to name ; the 

 geological world has acquiesced in the designation, and we trust that 

 even the justly respected authority of Mr. Phillips will not avail to sub- 

 vert it. 



Of a recent work by Mr. Hugh Miller, in a 12mo. with plates and 

 colored sections, entitled, " The Old Red Sandstone, or New Walks in 

 an Old Field,'''' he thus speaks in terms of merited commendation : 

 " From a pretty accurate acquaintance with the tracts from which Mr. 

 Miller has taken his title, I can assure you, says Mr. Murchison, that the 

 walks of this author had been little trodden, and that his claims to origin- 

 ality are very just. It is impossible to peruse these pages without delight, 

 in tracing how the strong mind of Mr. Miller has enabled him to rise, step 

 by step, from the stone quarry of his — and I may add my own — native 

 county, Ross-shire, to a place in literature and science which few reach. 



