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MEMOIR OP WERNER. 
whither he had gone in the hope of some alleviation 
of his sufferings. 
It seems as if fortune had brought him to this ca- 
pital, that he might there receive the most solemn 
honours. The most illustrious persons in the king- 
dom assisted at his obsequies. M. Boettiger, a dis- 
tinguished philosopher, publicly pronounced his fu- 
neral oration. The most celebrated academies of 
Germany have already paid him the same tribute 
which we this day render to him, and which will be 
decreed to him, under one form or other, in every 
quarter of the world where any branch of the science 
of the Earth is cultivated. 
ACCOUNT OP THE WERNERIAN NATURAL HISTORY 
SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 
[From Blackwood’s Magazine for June 1817.] 
To determine the utility of Natural History, it is 
scarcely necessary to do more than to enumerate its 
various branches by which it will he seen in its most 
convincing form. In truth the correctness of this 
opinion requires no proof, since the general attenlion 
which has, within a few years, been excited to the 
study of every department of natural knowledge, 
must have rendered every illustration that can be 
offered perfectly familiar to our readers. This be- 
