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one of Werner’s most zealous pupils ; he supported his doc- 
trines throughout life, but at the same time shut neither his 
eye nor his ear to the progress of science in those phases 
through which it passed in the course of time. Jameson mani- 
fested his devotion and gratitude to that never-to-be-forgotten 
teacher, Werner, by the establishment of the Wernerian Na- 
tural History Society, to which Europe is deeply indebted, by 
the many treasures he collected there in the field of science. 
Jameson was highly favoured for half a century as a great 
teacher, as an author, and asa distinguished philosopher, with 
perfect success. Great as is the number of those who, by 
word and doctrine, were instructed by him, it is still far sur- 
passed by the number of those who derived manifold instruc- 
tions from his numerous and valuable writings. 
“The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal is a marked 
proof of Jameson’s talents and unwearied industry,—a jour- 
nal so rich in its contents, and in having kept pace with the 
progressive discoveries and improvements in the arts and 
Sciences,—and a journal that will at all times maintain a most 
prominent position in the libraries of the learned. Such 
merits, joined to great urbanity, benevolent, and noble cha- 
-racter, could not fail to be appreciated ; and the great esteem 
and respect in which his name is upheld by all the academies 
and learned societies in Europe, America, East and West 
Indies, to which he belongs, is a decided proof of this. 
** May his God soon improve his suffering state of health, 
and may He give him many years of calmness and repose. 
‘“ Dr BUKER, Dean and Professor of Mathematics 
and Physic. =~ 
Dr Gustave Biscuor, Privy Mining Councillor, 
and Professor of Chemistry. | 
Dr NOEGGERATH, Privy Mining Councillor, and 
Professor of Mineralogy. 
Dr FR. ARGELANDER, Professor of aOR AR. 
and Director of the Observatory. 
L. J. 
*« Bonn, 13th May 1854.” 
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