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Hence, though containing much valuable matter, it is a difficult 
subject for the critic. 
Mr. Lee is one of the founders of the British Association, and 
was the intimate friend and companion of the late Prof. Phillips. 
As such he has taken no small part in the progress of geology. 
Hence interesting anecdotes crop up unexpectedly among the 
descriptive matter. It appears that he had once agreed with 
Prof. Phillips — then President of the Geological Society — to un- 
dertake a thorough examination of the strata underlying the 
chalk in Lincolnshire. “ The reader may imagine my surprise 
when, the day after one of the meetings in London, Prof. Phillips 
wrote a characteristic little note, of little more than half-a-dozen 
lines, saying that at the meeting an unknown young man, of the 
name of Judd, read an excellent paper on the Lincolnshire beds, 
and that consequently our work was done, as he had worked it 
far better than we should have done it. Our excursion was given 
up, and the unknown young man is now Professor Judd.” 
In 1842-3 the author experienced a peculiar misfortune. In 
the former year he had forwarded to the “ Annals and Magazine 
of Natural History” a paper on some Dermal Plates of Saurian 
Character from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight. A drawing 
accompanied the paper, and a correspondence ensued with one 
of the editors, who said that if the scale were sent up to his care 
a careful drawing of it should be made for the plate. This was 
done, but month after month passed over without the insertion of 
the paper, and it was not till some time after that the editor ex- 
pressed his great regret that the paper, the drawings, and the 
specimen itself, had been lost in a public conveyance on the way 
to the lithographer ! The almost unique specimen was never 
recovered. Fortunately a rough drawing had previously been 
sent to Mr. Charlesworth, a copy of which and of the paper are 
here inserted. 
When on the Riffelberg, in Switzerland, the author made an 
observation which confirms the popular assertion that some local 
cause renders the indications of the compass incorreCt. 
The bulk of the work, however, as we have already intimated, 
is intelligible only if taken in conjunction with the illustrations. 
As a frontispiece we find the skull of a “ cave-bear” ( Ursus 
spelcsus), which the author obtained from the celebrated bone- 
cavern of Ojcow, near Cracow. The length of the specimen is 
between 20 and 21 inches. 
