4 
; 
ether once more in a line :—and now the problem was to slide down 
in one hour the glacier which had cost us five in the morning. We 
of the guides served for rudders, stays and breaks; and down we went 
0 
rapid descent we would have to lie down and get ready to try it 
The steep places were passed sled-wise. The ladies had gone up to the 
top of Gérner Grat about 1 o'clock, p. m., to watch our progress, 
there, beside having one of the finest views in Switzerland to enjoy, had 
the full sight of our novel method of descent. Some gentlemen were 
with them who had made the ascent themselves and were able to show 
the 
years by him in all parts of Europe, in Asia, Africa and America, 
he having travelled over. 100,000 miles in his visits to localities and 
collections. It has been formed from the first on a plan designed to 
illustrate the departments of geology and mineralogy to students. This 
pera Happily for science, Prot. Ward’s plans found a liberal patron 
i i Hon 
in the noble liberality of the 
Roe ( 
gig 
life, by the long ranges of polish gine : 
or fs seco yet systematically arranged in detail, are conspicuous 
Siite'S od statis 
ing to Dana’s last edition: 5,200 
isolated blocks and nicely labelled. 
Sexres, Vou. XXXIII, No. 99.—Mar, 1862, 
