Adjourned Annual Meeting^, May 3rd, 1859. 
W. Fairbairn, F. R.S., &c., President, in the Chair. 
The Librarian said, that he had much pleasure, on behalf 
of the widow of the late distinguished professor of the French 
language and literature. Monsieur Jobert, to present to the 
Society, with a view of distribution to the learned bodies with 
which the Society exchanges publications, about 100 copies 
of that gentleman’s “ Philosophy of Geology,” and an equal 
number of his “ Ideas,” partly bound and partly in sheets. 
Difterent opinions will, of course, be entertained on the 
speculative views developed in these works ; but all will 
agree that they are written with great eloquence in a remark- 
ably pure language, and display a rare talent, — so much so 
indeed, that that eminent philosopher, the Rev. Professor A. 
Sedgwuck, has thought one of them — the “ Ideas” — deserving 
of a commendatory notice in his “ Discourse on the Studies 
of the University of Cambridge.” They will, therefore, no 
doubt, be worthy of the Society’s acceptance, for the purpose 
mentioned. 
On the motion of Dr. Smith, seconded by Mr. Binney, 
the thanks of the Society W'ere voted to Mrs. Jobert. 
“ A Notice of the Geology of the Australian Gold Fields,” 
by W. S. Jevons, Esq., late of the Sidney Mint, commu- 
nicated in a letter to Professor Roscoe, was read. 
“ I was much interested when at the Braidwood diggings, 
in New South Wales, in speculating on the nature of the 
granite plateau, and the relations of it to the minerals 
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