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Provincia di Gard. Compilato da Antonio Schembri. Malta, 

 1843. 4to. — From the Author. 

 The Medical News and Library. Vol. II. March, 1844. No. 15. 

 8vo. — From Messrs. Lea 4* Blanchard. 



FOR THE CABINET. 



A Specimen of Dodecaedral Oxide of Iron, from Berks County, Penn- 

 sylvania. — From J. C. Trautwine. 



Thirty-three Specimens of Fossils from the Himalaya and Sevalik 

 Hills. Collected by the Rev. James R. Campbell, Missionary of 

 the Reformed Presbyterian Church, at Saharumpur, Upper India. 

 From the Rev. Theodoi-e W. J. Wylie. 



Mr. Dillingham, pursuant to appointment, read an obituary 

 notice of Judge Gaston. 



The life of Judge Gaston, Mr. Dillingham said, should be written 

 for the special benefit of the cause of religious toleration. He was 

 himself a Catholic, and the champion of toleration; his ancestors 

 were Huguenots, and had been driven from France by the revocation 

 of the edict of Nantes. They sought refuge in Ireland, where his 

 father was born, and where his uncle, the Rev. Hugh Gaston, was a 

 Presbyterian clergyman, eminent for piety and learning, and the au- 

 thor of a religious work* of high authority. Dr. Alexander Gaston, 

 the father, received his professional education in the medical school 

 at Edinburgh, and was subsequently appointed a surgeon in the Bri- 

 tish navy, but early in life came to this country, and settled at New- 

 bern. North Carolina. He was distinguished among the patriots of 

 the revolution, was a member of the committee of safety, and served 

 in the army, — at times in his professional capacity, and once in the 

 command of a body of volunteers, which led to his early and tragical 

 death. He was shot in the presence of his wife and family, under 

 circumstances which indicate the character of the strife between the 

 whigs and tories of the revolution. He left a widow and two chil- 

 dren, one of them, the subject of this notice, but three years old. 



Judge Gaston was born at Newbern, N. C, on the 19th of Sept. 

 1778. His mother was of the Roman Catholic faith. She was dis- 

 tinguished for prudence, intelligence, and accomplishments, and, by 

 common consent, moulded the character of her son for that high des- 

 tiny which he subsequently attained. A disposition, in childhood, 



" Gaston's Concordance " 



