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myself with quoting the following passage, from a letter by Mr. D. 

 Forbes in the last number of your Magazine, the sentiments of which 

 I heartily endorse. 



" No man in Europe can expect to retain any portion of the field of science exclu- 

 sively for himself, or to travel alone on any of the many diflferent roads which lead 

 to one and the same scientific truth. If real progress is to be made in science, the 

 student must reason for himself, and not be content with accepting, merely on authority, 

 opinions which are inconsistent with his own deductions and experiments ; nor 

 should he be deterred by the opposition to be expected from those already in office 

 or authority, who are sure to be jealous of intruders on what they imagine to be their 

 own domain, and, doubtless, dislike having their peace of mind disturbed by innovations." 



Henry Alleyne Nicholson. 



Queen Street, Keighley, Febnmry lO^A, 1868. 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF BOHEMIA. 



Sir, — I send you a short extract from the Eeport of our Geologi- 

 cal Surveyors in Bohemia. A reference to the map shows that these 

 labours have been very little disturbed by the late war. 



The Orograpliical section (Prof. Koristka) completed, in the year 

 1865-6, 5,000 trigonometrical measures over a surface of 123 

 German square miles. 



The Geological section (Prof. Krejci) have continued the exami- 

 nation of the Chalk formation, which will be very valuable when 

 the large collection of fossils made by me shall be determined. 



During the past three years I have placed 3,536 chalk fossils 

 from 65 different localities in the Museum. One locality alone, 

 called Korycan, has supplied 70 species. 



The most important discoveries consist in (1) the finding of fresh- 

 water shells in the Upper Greensand, and (2) of a large deposit of 

 Eadiolites, near the city of Kuttenberg, where a celebrated Gothic 

 Church is entirely built of these curious shells. 



In 1867, 1,500 chalk fossils have been added to the Museum from 

 17 localities. 



A new locality for Eozoon has been met with in the Gneiss, near 

 Skuc, in S.E. Bohemia. 



And, lastly, we have discovered reindeers' horns in the diluvial 

 Loess, near Prague. Med. Dr. Anton Fritsch. 



EoYAL Bohemian Museum, Prague, 26tb Dec., 1867. 



IMlISCELIL^n^riEJOTJS. 

 Award of the Wollaston Gold Medal and Donation-fund. — 



At the Anniversary meeting of the Geological Society held Feb. 21, 

 1868, the President announced the Award of the Wollaston Gold 

 Medal to Dr. Carl Friedrich Naumann, Foreign Member of the 

 Geological Society, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the 

 University of Leipzig, etc., in recognition of his labours, extend- 

 ing over nearly half a century, in the departments of Geology, 

 Mineralogy, Crystallography, etc. The President also stated that 

 the Balance of the Proceeds of the Wollaston Donation-fund had 

 been awarded to Mons. J. Bosquet, of Maestricht, in aid of the 

 valuable researches on the Tertiary and Cretaceous Mollusca, Ento- 

 mostraca, and other fossils, of Holland and Belgium, on which he sah 

 been so long and successfully engaged. 



