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these appearances with subsidence of the land and the strong 

 zoological evidence of a glacial climate, he suggested coast-ice as 

 the probable agent. 



Mr. Smith was induced by illness in his family to visit southern 

 climates during several years ; and his activity of mind and body 

 nowhere failed to reap a harvest of facts and conclusions. Perhaps 

 one of the most charming results of close observation and ingenious 

 induction is his geological account of Gibraltar (Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc. 1844), in which he traces out the numerous movements of ele- 

 vation and depression to which that extraordinary peninsula has 

 been subjected since the formation of the massive limestone beds of 

 which it is mainly composed. Another interesting paper was that 

 *' On Recent Depressions of the Land" (February 1847), illustrated 

 particularly by fresh observations on the temple of Serapis, at 

 Pozzuoli, and on the coasts of Brittany and Normandy. And stiU 

 more important, although not so closely connected with our own 

 science, was his accurate investigation of the circumstances of the 

 locality of St. Paul's shipwreck, which he published in 1848, under 

 the title of * The Yoyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul, with Disser- 

 tations on the life and vn:itings of St. Luke, and the Ships and 

 Navigation of the Ancients.' Por a task of this kind our late 

 associate was admirably adapted: a good classical education in 

 youth, supplemented by his love for natural science, might alone 

 have been but of little avail; his acquaintance with the science of 

 navigation and his practical experience as a yachtsman, enabled 

 him to verify the places and thoroughly to test aU the details of the 

 narrative. 



In questions of education Mr. Smith played an important part, 

 and, as President of the Andersonian University at Glasgow, and as 

 the chief originator and supporter of the Museum of Natural History, 

 he contributed much towards facilitating the career of students in 

 his native town. His hberality of thought and tolerance of the 

 opinions of others were coupled with a heartiness and joviality that 

 smacked of his favourite element — the salt water ; and it was in 

 part to his love of sailing and open air that he ascribed the generally 

 excelleut health which he enjoyed to an advanced age. Por no less 

 than sixty years he had sailed his own yacht. In the spring of last 

 year he was attacked by a slight stroke of paralysis, but bore up well, 

 with his intellect unimpaired, until near the close of the year, when 

 the more serious stroke occurred which terminated fatally. 



The Marquis Loeei^zo Paeeto, the scion of an old patrician 

 family, was born in Genoa about the beginning of the present cen- 

 tury. In early manhood he turned his attention to geological stu- 

 dies ; and although dui^ing some portion of his life much occupied in 

 the somewhat turbid tide of politics that affected his native city, 

 he always returned to his favourite studies with genuine affection. 

 His investigations were in great part limited to Liguria ; but he 

 varied his examinations of that beautiful province with excursions 

 to other parts of Italy, and to the Islands of Pianosa, Gigho, Cor- 



