10. W. B. Dwight on a Boulder and Glacial Scratches. 
which must have contributed much to the breadth of his views 
and the sureness of his judgment. Invaluable as such extent of 
some is, in the present state and prospects of our science we 
n hardly expect to see again a botanist so widely and so well 
scicisinted both with eryptogamic and phanerogamic botany, or 
one agent of doing so much for the advancement and illsistra: 
tion o 
Our narrative of Sir William Hooker's scientific career and 
our estimate of his influence has, we trust, clearly, soot inci- 
dentally, informed our readers what manner of man he was. 
To the wide cirdle of botanists, in which he has long filled sO 
praise,”—it is superfluous to say that Sir William Hooker 
= of the most admirable of men, a model Christian Gentle 
E hers could really. be no question as to the succession to the 
charge of the great botanical paerpe at Kew. But we 
may add, for the information of many of o r readers, that the 
directorship vacated by Sir William’s death has been filled by. 
the appointment of his only surviving son, Dr. Joseph Dalton 
Hooker, whose well-established scientific fame and ability, no 
less than his lineage, may assure the continued equally successful 
administration of this most interesting and important — 
.G 
Arr. I IL—On a Boulder, and Glacial iares at Englewood, 
; Ndi; by Rey. W. B. Dw 
- tes rag ae he of the trap ridge known as the Palisades, 
in Bergen -, presents in many places an appearance 
suggestive of glacial erosion ; but on account of the ease with 
which the trap disintegrates, whether exposed to the air, or toa — 
covering of moist eart th, it has heretofore been difficult to find a 
surface where the polishing and grooving are sufficiently plain 
to warrant a — conclusion. Such a locality has however — 
wale ; 
been recently obse 
A large bilder, called “Sampson’s Rock,” at Englewood, 
ne N. Ju, has lon ng been an re of i pei ae the pie of — 
ee visited the phe and we soon discovered dak this imposing 
er pres ee ae 
movedient hie placed it there. 
se Ei lh ei era Ath ER es ee a Smee ne RN“ % 
