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tion of certain beds, which contain numerous Fossil Marine Plants in 

 Mifflin county, Pa ; on the Transition and Secondary Coal Formations 

 in Pennsylvania; Existence of an Ancient Lake in Mifflin county ; 

 Coal Field of Blossburg; Bituminous Coal field near Richmond, Va.; 

 Section (250 miles) in Virginia and Maryland; The Copper Region, 

 Gibara in Cuba ; Fossil Plants in Dauphin county Coal Field ; Notes 

 on Indian mounds and Earthworks; and other minor papers. 



Mr. Taylor's great work, however, is his " Statistics of Coal" 

 published in this city, in 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 754, in 1848. This was 

 the result of the labours of a long life — facts stored up with the most 

 unremitting care, and digested with an order worthy of all praise. 

 The reviewers of England and this country gave it their highest ap- 

 proval and unstinted commendation. The Edinburgh Review con- 

 sidered his "inquiries to have been extended with marvellous industry 

 and perseverance to every part of the globe." The Journal of the 

 Franklin Institute stated that it could scarcely be thought possible that 

 one individual could have collected such a mass of facts. Hunt's 

 Merchant's Magazine stated in its notice, that "on no kindred subject, 

 has a more complete and perfect treatise ever been produced." 



The services of Mr. Taylor in economic geology and theoretic geo- 

 logy naturally attracted the attention of learned bodies to him, and 

 accordingly we find him a member of the Geological Society of Lon- 

 don, the American Philosophical Society, the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, the Geological Society of Pennsylvania, the Franklin Insti- 

 tute, &c. of this city, and the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. In all these Societies his loss will be deeply de- 

 plored, and his more intimate friends feel that his place cannot be 

 easily filled, when ripe judgment, mature experience, and accurate 

 knowledge are required in the scope of those sciences which he culti- 

 vated. 



Dr. F. Bache announced the death of Don Manuel Godoy, 

 a member of this Society, who died at Paris, on the 7th ultimo, 

 in the 86th year of his age. 



New nominations, Nos. 263, 264 and 265, were read. 



