the late Professor Jameson. 3 
Jameson. Not even his own famous master, the eloquent 
and illustrious Werner, could equal him in this genesis of in- 
vestigators. Under his auspices, too, were lasting friend- 
ships and unions of kindred minds formed, that have been 
productive in good to the cause of knowledge. Valuable as 
were his writings, each, when estimated with regard to the 
position of science at the time of its issue, an effective ad- 
vance—his pupils were even more valuable. The greatest 
praise of a great professor is that which proclaims he has 
founded a school. And where else in the British Empire, ex- 
cept here, has there been for the last half century a school of 
Natural History ?”’ 
Jameson attained the age of eighty years, and had filled his 
chair for upwards of half a century, and had done more than 
can now be well estimated, by his unwearied exertions. The 
many thousand difficulties he had to conquer, in a department 
of science which, at the commencement of his labours, was in 
its infancy, and involved in a labyrinth of vague conjectures, 
required a mind of a constant and steady determination to 
group together all the known facts, and to draw deductions 
from those to overturn erroneous doctrines then in existence, 
and to open up the path to truth. 
Jameson died on the 19th of April 1854, at his residence 
in this city. His health in general throughout life was good, 
and although slender in body, he could undergo a great deal 
of fatigue without injuring his health. During the last two 
years of his life he had suffered from repeated attacks of 
bronchitis, which had much impaired his iron frame; but by 
the judicious advice of his medical attendants, and the tender 
eare of an afflicted and watchful family, his latter days 
were soothed and prolonged. He knew well that the end of 
his earthly existence was not far distant, and talked of it with 
the same calmness and composure as he did of the daily events 
of life. Hewound up all his thoughts, in so far as they were 
connected with this earth, in the most perfect composure ; 
and, like a traveller whose toil is over, slept the sleep of the 
just, calm and tranquil. _ 
On the morning of the day of his death 1 saw no unusual 
symptoms. He had passed a quiet night; breakfasted at his 
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