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his works on fossil botany. One of his distinguished pupils, M. Ber- 
trand Geslin, was also of this party. The result of these travels 
was, among other things, the then startlmg announcement that the 
dark limestones of the Montagne des Fis, in Savoy, could only be 
regarded as an equivalent of the cretaceous rocks of Northern France 
and England. We are accustomed to such comparisons now, but 
thirty-one years since geologists were not prepared so readily to receive 
announcements of this kind. 
It was in 1824 that M. Brongniart visited Norway and Sweden, 
where his attention was alike directed to the more ancient and more 
modern rocks and accumulations. 
The works of M. Brongniart corresponded with the range of his 
mind, and we find him alike advancing our knowledge of mineralogy, 
geology, zoology, paleontology, and of the employment of mineral 
substances for the use of man and the ornament of his works. 
The last work of M. Brongniart, commenced in 1830 and com- 
pleted in 1844, entitled ‘ Traité des Arts-Céramiques,’ presents us 
with the most valuable information on this head ever accumulated, 
treated in the manner which might be expected from one so perfectly 
conversant with his subject, studied durig so many years, and so well 
illustrated by the splendid museum of fictile and vitreous manufactures 
which he founded at Sévres. 
The kindness of M. Brongniart to all m any manner connected 
with him, is proved by the affectionate regard entertained so gene- 
rally for him. While so well-informed, and occupying deservedly so 
high a place among men of science, he was always modest. Those 
who knew him well describe him as most frank, and so desirous of 
bemg scrupulously just, that the fear of partiality was often too strong 
upon him. His mind was at all times ready to receive truth, and he 
was anxious to regard subjects from different pomts of view. He 
considered minerals both as regards their chemical composition and. 
crystalline structure, and in geology, though as one of the authors of 
the mineral geography of the environs of Paris, it might be expected 
that he would hold the value of organic remains as not slight, he 
carefully avoided giving them exclusive importance. 
I cannot close this notice of our losses by death without advert- 
ing to that of one, who though not placed among even the easier 
classes of society, but who had to earn her daily bread by her labour, 
yet contributed by her talents and untiring researches in no small 
degree to our knowledge of the great Enalio-saurians, and other 
forms of organic life entombed in the vicinity of Lyme Regis. .Mary 
ANNING was the daughter of Richard Aunig, a cabinet-maker of 
that town, and was born in May, 1799. While yet a child in arms 
(19th August, 1800), she narrowly escaped death, when with her 
nurse taking shelter beneath a tree durimg a thunderstorm, which had 
scattered a crowd collected in a field to witness some feats of horse- 
manship to be performed by a party travellmg through the country. 
Two women, with the nurse, were killed by the lightning, which struck 
the tree beneath which they considered themselves safe; but the 
child, Mary Anning, was by careful treatment revived, and found not 
