40 Lord Brougham’s Address on the Inauguration of a 
it in perfect crystals. It contains very rarely, minute forms of 
a silver-white pyrites not yet determined. The: eae bo 
when first heated before the blowpipe, evolves a distinct odor of 
selenium. 
hen in granular calcite, it is accompanied by small erys 
tals of a brownish, semi-transparent mineral, in p 
Leadhillite occurs in small quantity at the Morgan silver lead 
mine, in Spartanburg district, South Carolina. It is associa 
d cerusite. 
nein een 
Art. VIIIl.—Address by Lord Brougham on the Inauguration | 
a Statue to Sir Isaae Newton* 
To record the names and preserve the memory of those whose 
great achievements in science, in arts, or in arms have con 
* From the London Times, September 23, 
Grawytuam, Tuesday, September 21, 1858.—Lincolnshire enjoys the proud distin 
tion of having given to the world the illustrious mathematician and .philosophet, — 
Sir Isaac Newton—justly described as “ the greatest genius of the hum 
who was born at the manor-house of Woolstho i 
, on Christmas Day, 1642. Sir Isaac was a posthumous child, his ss n 
i th of a 
by his schoolmates to play, in making models of various kinds, chiefly clo 
sun dials, one of the latter of which is still to be seen carved upon the walls 
old manor-house at Woolsthorpe. He was entered, in 1661 
sath ge, where he was fortunate enough to secure the friendship of the le: 
r 
ju ofe: in 1 In the autumn of 1667, Newton was elect 
fellow; on the 16th of March, 1668, he was elected a major fellow; and on 
, 1669, he was appointed Lucasian Pro: f, 
is said e d with to his appointment, and 
period may be dat development of those wonderful scientific 
d : ne 
to trace further the career of this great philosopher, over whose giant intellect 
