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cation, and the preparation of numerous valuable specimens and casts. 
The skeletons of the Cervus m^gaceros are the most complete in existence, 
and evince his great skill in the art of museum arrangement. 
He was appointed President of the Zoological Section of the last 
Meeting of the British Association; but it was not the will of God that he 
should witness another meeting of that body. He died suddenly on the 
30th of March, and most of us had the melancholy pleasure of accompa¬ 
nying his remains to Mount Jerome Cemetery. 
He has left a chasm in our ranks which will not be easily filled. 
May his surviving family enjoy every kind of prosperity, and may his 
sons follow in his steps! 
I think the most convenient course for me will be to notice briefly 
the most remarkable papers which were submitted to our Section of the 
British Association. There are some few notices of a general nature 
which I may introduce in a separate paragraph, and I will reserve to a 
later period the discussion of some of those intestine questions which 
have produced so much interest on this side of the channel. I do not 
conceive that I am called on to give anything like a general view of the 
progress of Geology in other countries, as we know the conscientious 
manner in which the present President of the London Geological Society 
discharges this arduous duty. 
As far as Geology was concerned, we have every reason to be satisfied 
with the intellectual fare which was provided for us. There was a 
goodly gathering of congenial spirits; and although, to my deep regret, we 
missed the well-known and revered faces of Buckland, of Delabeche, of 
Conybeare, of Greenough(who no longer belong to this earth), and also of a 
Sedgwick, a Murchison, and a Lyell, we were gratified with the opportu¬ 
nity of making the acquaintance of many of the young and rising followers 
of the science, and some of the celebrities of America and Continental 
Europe. Above all, it must have afforded you all the sincerest pleasure 
to welcome again to these shores General Portlock and Mr. Oldham, who 
both filled this Chair with such success, and who now, as you are 
doubtless aware, are respectively placed in the honourable and respon¬ 
sible situations of President of the Boyal Geological Society of London, 
and Director of the Geological Survey of India. 
We have been honoured by the visit of Messrs. Schlagintweit, who 
have been so long engaged under the King of Prussia and the East India 
Company, to their mutual honour be it spoken, in investigating the na¬ 
tural history and physical peculiarities of India; also, of the two Professors 
Rogers, who have imparted to us such valuable and novel information 
on the geological structure of the United States of America, particu¬ 
larly in relation to the Geological Map of Pennsylvania which has been 
prepared under their direction; and Professor Mallet, who has exhi¬ 
bited and explained that truly masterly production, the Geological Map 
of the State of Alabama. 
Mr. Eox’s paper on the “Temperature of Mines,” forms the sequel to 
a series of observations, which, for the last twenty years and upwards, 
has occupied his attention. It is truly refreshing to see such long sus¬ 
tained perseverance in the pursuit of scientific truth. 
