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devoted considerable attention to the BracMopoda, and we are 

 indebted to Mm for a French Translation of Davidson's " General 

 Introduction " to that group, as well as for the establishment of the 

 genus Argio'pe. But his most important publications relate to the 

 Crocodilian remains of Normandy. 



Honours of all kinds were heaped upon him. He was a cor- 

 responding member of the Institute of France, and of numerous 

 other academies and learned societies. A chevalier and officier de 

 la Legion d' honneur, and a medallist of St Helena. In 1861 

 he received a silver medal from the Minister of Public Instruction. 

 In 1863 a gold medal was presented* to him as a reward for the 

 first portion of his admirable work on Teleosaurus, and in 1864 

 another gold medal was awarded to him by the Academy of 

 Sciences of Rouen. He was also a foreign member of the Geologi- 

 cal Society of London. 



About two years ago he had the great misfortune to lose the 

 sight of one of his eyes, and the other having been much impaired, 

 the calamity produced on his ever active mind a feeling of deep 

 depression. On the 15th of November last he assisted at the inau- 

 gural opening of the session of the Faculty of Sciences of Caen, 

 where his worthy and distinguished son was occupying his chair as 

 professor of Zoology. Feeling his end fast approaching, his last 

 few days were spent in dictating to his son what was still necessary 

 in order to enable him to complete the great work on the Fossil 

 Crocodilian remains of Normandy, upon which he had laboured 

 during so many years. Eemembering the compliments paid him 

 by the Geological Society of London, he desired that his last 

 great work should be dedicated to that society. On the 17th of 

 January, 1867, he expired, aged 73 years and one month, deeply 

 regretted by his numerous friends and admirers. 



James Smith, Esq., of Jordan Hill, near Glasgow, F.E.S., F.G.S., 

 whose death we announced in the last number of the Geological 

 Magazine, was bom in the year 1782, and died on the 17th January, 

 1867, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. He was educated in the 

 University of Glasgow. From his earliest years he had a taste for 

 yachting, and it was said at one time he was the only yachtsman in 

 the West of Scotland for many years. In 1806 he made a voyage in 

 a very small vessel of about twelve tons, which accommodated himself 

 and his companions, the late Professor Milne and Dr. Ure, and in 

 this voyage, which lasted several weeks, they went as far as the Isle 

 of Skye. In a subsequent voyage, a few years afterwards, he dis- 

 covered the vitrified fort on the Burnt Island, in the Kames of Bute, 

 and published an account of it in the transactions of the Edinburgh 

 Antiquarian Society. He subsequently served as an officer in the 

 Renfrewshire Militia, and was on duty at the Tower when Sir 

 Francis Burdett was imprisoned there. After the peace he visited 

 France and Italy, in which latter country he resided for some time, 

 occupied chiefly with the study of the Fine Arts. About the year 

 1830 he began to take an active interest in the affairs of the Ander- 



