Baden Powell — Igneous Rocks of Charnwood Forest. 1 1 1 



of petrology, mineralogy, microscopy, literature of the subject, etc., 

 etc. ; whilst at the same time he has not omitted to herald in his own 

 views as what might be termed the quintessence of the combined 

 " results of modern investigations in physics, chemistry, mathematics, 

 and astronomy." 



Would it not have been more wise, as well as more becoming, to 

 have left to our readers the task of forming their own judgment upon 

 these points after having weighed the evidence brought before 

 them on both sides, in the course of this discussion. 



Having no pretensions, like Dr. Hunt, either to being a saint, or 

 even to be versed in saintly lore, I cannot cite Thomas a Kempis, 

 yet I can, nevertheless, follow his example, and even at the risk of 

 appearing still more uncourteous, I really cannot resist the tempta- 

 tion to remind him of the old saying, — passed into a proverb among 

 laymen — that " Curses, like chickens, come home to roost." 



II. — On the Igneous Kocks of Chaenwood Forest and its 

 Neighbourhood. 



By the late Rev. Baden Powell, F.R.S., F.G.S., formerly Savilian Professor of 

 Geometry in the University of Oxford. 



[This paper, written in 1859, has been obligingly communicated to the Editor by 

 Warington W. Smyth, Esq., JF.R.S., President of the Geological Society of London."] 



THE geology of Charnwood Forest appears to have been first 

 systematically investigated by Professors Sedgwick, Whewell, 

 and Airy in 1833. A very brief notice of their labours by C. AUsop, 

 Esq., is appended to the history of Charnwood Forest by J. K. 

 Potter, 1842, as is also a valuable and detailed memoir on the 

 geology of the district, by J. B. Jukes, Esq. 



More recently the labours of the Government Survey have fur- 

 nished us with the geological colouring of the Ordnance Map, and 

 with several sections ; accompanied by a few notes by H. Howell, 

 Esq. 



Since these researches I am unable to learn that anything has been 

 published on this interesting region, which is admitted by Mr. Jukes 

 to present many problems for investigation. In the very elaborate 

 classified index of Mr. C. W. Ormerod, F.G.S. (1858), not a single 

 instance occurs of any paper illustrative of the geology of this 

 district, having been published in the Quarterly Journal of the 

 Geological Society of London. 



Having enjoyed an opportunity of residing upwards of two months 

 in this region, during the summer of 1859, I examined and collected 

 specimens from nearly every locality of igneous action. The brief 

 notices here given have no pretensions beyond that of being faithful 

 records of a few facts which fell under my notice, which do not seem 

 to have been previously attended to, but which appear to bear on 

 the questions still open to discussion, as to some of the geological 

 features of this remarkable district. 



assertion, but also directing my attention to an expired patent, taken out many 

 years ago (No. 9102, a.d. 1841) by the late Mr. Pattison, of Newcastle, in which 

 these identical reactions are embodied. 



