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of the gneiss, certain minerals have been, and probably are 

 still being, modified by chemical action arising from infiltra- 

 tion, so that new minerals are formed by pseudomorphosis ; 

 as for example, the pyrosklerite. — (T. B. I. Quarterly Jour- 

 nal of the Geological Society, Vol. ix., No. 36, p. 27.) 



Biographical Sketch of Mr Hugh Edwin Strickland. 



We have to announce, with deep regret, the death of Mr 

 H. E. Strickland, who was killed by a railway train, whilst 

 examining the strata of a railway cutting on the Manchester, 

 Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line. 



" Mr Strickland arrived at East Retford from Hull, hav- 

 ing attended the recent meeting of the British Association. 

 He was attached to the Geological Section of the Asso- 

 ciation; and in pursuance of his practical investigations in 

 that science, he proceeded on Wednesday afternoon to ex- 

 amine the strata of the deep cuttings on each side of the 

 Clarbrough Tunnel, about four miles distant from Retford. 

 A little after four o'clock, a boy at work in the fields observed 

 him standing between the two lines of rails, near the mouth 

 of the tunnel, on the Gainsborough side, with a pocket-book 

 in his hand, apparently engaged in making notes. At this 

 time, a coal train was approaching on the down line, — to avoid 

 which he stepped off the ' six feet' on to the up line ; — but 

 unhappily he did so just at the moment when the Great North- 

 ern passenger train was issuing from the tunnel. The train 

 dashed upon him, — and the next instant he lay a shattered 

 and shapeless corpse." 



Mr Strickland was in the prime of life, — at that age when 

 the promise of youth is fast realizing itself. He was born at 

 Righton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the 2d of March 

 1811. His father, Mr Henry E. Strickland of Apperley, in 

 Gloucestershire, was a son of the late Sir George Strickland, 

 Bart, of Boynton, in Yorkshire. He was a grandson on his 

 mother's side of the celebrated Dr Edmund Cartwright, — 

 whose name is so indissolubly connected with the manufac- 



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