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flow, has overlaid the intervening valley so much, that, on the Cross fell 

 side you may almost step from the New Red to the section of the Old. The 

 sea, from which were deposited these rocks, eventually withdrew, and our 

 county was then added to that dignified portion of the earth's surface, 

 ' The Dry Land ;' which it maintained throughout the long ages of the 

 Oolitic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary periods, subject to the wear and tear of 

 storms, and the convulsive throes of earthquakes, till Divine Providence 

 directed the icy sea of the Drift era, to cover its naked surface with a coat 

 of gravel, sand, and clay." It may be here remarked, that the shocks of 

 earthquakes are not unknown even at the present day. So lately as the 

 morning of the 6th of last December, this district was visited by a very 

 sensible convulsive quiver. 



Society of Arts. — 17th December. — " On Mines, Minerals, and Miners 

 of the United Kingdom." By Robert Hunt, Esq., F.R.S., of the Govern- 

 ment School of Mines. A valuable paper full of important details. It has 

 been reprinted by Professor Tennant from the ' Society of Arts Journal,' 

 for gratuitous distribution. 



Anthropological Society. — This society, founded on the 6th of Janu- 

 ary last, already numbers 120 members, and has commenced its meetings. 

 It has been formed with the object of promoting the study of Anthropo- 

 logy in a strictly scientific manner ; to study man in all his leading aspects, 

 physical, mental, and historical ; to investigate the laws of his origin and 

 progress ; to ascertain his place in nature and his relations to the inferior 

 forms of life ; and to attain these objects by patient investigation, careful 

 induction, and the encouragement of all researches tending to establish a 

 de facto science of man. Many of the researches undertaken by this so- 

 ciety will fall legitimately within the provinces of Geology and Archaeology. 

 The following Council has been appointed : — President — Dr. James Hunt, 

 F.S.A., F.R.S.L., For. Associate Anthropological Society of Paris, etc. 

 Vice-Presidents — Captain Richard F. Burton, H.M. Consul at Fernando 

 Po, etc. ; Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart. Honorary Secretary — C. Carter 

 Blake, Esq. Honorary Foreign Secretary — Edward B. Tylor, Esq. Ho- 

 norary Assistant Secretary — Alfred Higgins, Esq. Treasurer — R. S. 

 Chariiock, Esq., F.S.A., F.R.G.S. Council — Rudolph Arundell, Esq. ; 

 Alan C. Blackstone, Esq., M.A., F.R.G.S.; W. Bollaert, Esq., F.R.G.S. 

 Corr. Mem. Univ. Chile and Ethno. Socs., London and New York ; Luke 

 Burke, Esq., F.E.S. ; J. F. Collingwood, Esq., F.G.S. ; G. D. Gibb, Esq., 

 M.D., F.G.S. ; J. Hughlings Jackson, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.P. ; S. J. 

 Mackie, F.G.S., F.S.A., F.E.S. ; Edward Pick, Esq., F.E.S. ; T. S. Pri- 

 deaux, Esq. ; William Travers, Esq., M.R.C.S. ; W. S. W. Yaux, Esq., 

 M.A., F.S.A., F.R.S.L. 



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Artificial Cavern. — A cave has been lately discovered in New Hamp- 

 shire (America), whence the Indians of New England are BUpposed to 

 have obtained their arrow -heads and flint-instruments. The cave is an 

 artificial excavation, twenty-eight feet long, twelve wide, and eight or ten 

 high, with a narrow mouth, in a jasper vein enclosed in " granite." of a 

 steep mountain-spur on the banks of the Androscoggin, one and a half 

 miles from Berlin Falls. 



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