48 Biographical Memoir of the late Professor Jameson. 
be fused, and how fusible and infusible substances occurred 
together. We now know from his experiments that fusible 
substances contain dissolvents which act on the infusible 
substances and dissolve them. 
Jameson was the first who observed a concentric laminar 
structure in granite ; and he was the first who started the 
notion of the contemporaneous formation of rocks in this 
country. 
We have now given a very brief outline of Jameson’s 
career, and we trust his last and dying feelings in regard to 
his Museum, so well known to the Patrons of the University 
and his Colleagues, will be ultimately realized, and fully 
carried out. We have further shewn that Jameson has led 
a long, a highly useful, and, I may add, a truly happy life,— 
a life that has reaped enjoyments on this earth of an order 
of immortal beings,—a being, although clothed with mor- 
tality, and subject to the ordinary passions, infirmities, and 
possessing a mind that craved unceasingly for the expansion 
and improvement of the intellect that God had given him to 
elevate and enoble his mortal existence ; and a mind that, even 
while so imprisoned, could grasp the whole of nature, and turn 
his knowledge to the progress, improvement, and benefit of 
his fellow-creatures. Such powers and faculties in a perishable 
fellow-creature, are enough to excite man’s highest admira- 
tion, and to lead him to feel that such gifts and faculties are 
not doomed to perish, but that the mind of man is imma- 
terial and immortal. His soul is now safe in its immortal 
habitation, where there is neither death nor sorrow. Death 
knocked at the door, and it opened, and his finer being was 
transferred from a lower to a higher state of existence, to 
immortal happiness. 
The feelings of the University of Bonn as to the value and 
worth of the late Professor Jameson appears in the following 
address, received from the Professors of that University :— 
* At a time when the oldest of the undersigned were still 
boys, and the youngest not even born, Professor Jameson was 
a student in the celebrated Mining Academy of Freybreg. 
He, along with many distinguished foreigners, was attracted 
thither to study under the famous Werner. Jameson was 
