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amusing experiments : he was led irresistibly to exercise 
his own mind, and trained to the habits of accurate induc- 
tion. ‘To those solid attainments which entitled Dr. Mar-~ 
ray to stand in the first rank as a man of science, was unit- 
ed arefined taste and a liberal acquaintance with every 
subject cf general interest in literature. His manners were 
easy, polite, and unpretending, regulated by a delicate sense 
of propriety, with much of that simplicity which so often 
accompanies strength of character and originality of mind. 
He rose to eminence by the intrinsic force of his talents ; 
he was above all the second-hand arts by which so many 
labour to attract attention; and a native dignity of senti- 
ment, and manly spirit of independence, kept him aloof 
from all those petty intrigues which are so often employed 
with success to bolster up inferior pretensions.—” 
In common with all the pupils of Dr. Murray, I can feel- 
ingly bear testimony to the accuracy of the above delinea- 
tion.— Edit. 
Red Snow of Baffin’s Bay. 
“The nature of this substance was explained in Mr. 
Bauer’s paper read before the Royal Society on the 11th 
May, as noticed ina former number. In the winter he 
put some of the red globules forming this substance into a 
phial with compressed snow, and placed the phial in the 
open air. A thaw having melted the snow, he poured off 
the water and added fresh snow. In two days the mass of 
fungi was found raised in little heaps, which gradually rose 
higher, filling the cells of the ice. Another thaw came on, 
and the fungi fell tothe bottom, but of about twice their 
original bulk. They appeared capable of vegetating in wa- 
ter, but in this case the globules produced were not red, 
but green. The author found that excessive cold killed 
the original fungi; but their seeds still retained vitality, and 
if immersed in snow produced new fungi, generally of a 
red colour.—Snow, then, seems to be the proper soil of 
these fungi.” 
Breccia of Mont D'or. 
“There are found rather abundantly in a ravine of Mont 
D’or, in Auvergne, fragments of a breccia, the hardness 
and other external characters of which, having led to the 
