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THE GEOLOGIST. 



long be felt. To those who had the happiness of his private 

 friendship, he was endeared by the amiable cheerfulness and 

 simplicity of his manners, by his unaflfected readiness to 

 communicate information, and his generous ardour in behalf 

 of every object and institution connected with the diffusion 

 of knowledge, and the extension of human virtue and hap- 

 piness. By his associates in the Literary and Philosophical, 

 the Natural History, and Geological Societies of Manchester, 

 his memory will be warmly cherished, and his death will be 

 deeply regretted by the most distinguished members of the 

 British Association, especially when they assemble in that 

 town next year. His communications to the Transactions of 

 the Linnasan, Geological, and other Societies, will form 

 lasting evidence of his acquirements ; and we may mention, as 

 one proof of his industrious research and inquiry, that the 

 recently published volume of the Transactions of the Man- 

 chester Geological Society, contains no fewer than four able 

 articles from the pen of Mr. Bowman, all of them read before 

 that Society within a few" months ; namely, on the origin of 

 coal ; the characters of the fossil trees on the Bolton railway ; 

 a white fossil powder found under a bog in Lincolnshire; and 

 notices of the upper Silurian rocks, in the vale of Llangollen. 



THE EDITOR. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ON THE BONES OF THE OX IN BLUE CLAY. 



Notice of bones of the ox, found in clay at Gayton Thorpe, 

 Norfolk ; communicated by C. B. Rose, Esq. F.G.S. — ''^In the 

 summer of 1840, I discovered in a clay pit at Gayton Thorpe 

 in West Norfolk, numerous portions of bones so much de- 

 composed, and broken into so many fragments, that, but for 



