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 Rh Of special discoveries, geology and palæontology are always prolific. Perhaps no more striking warning of the changes which these may yet demand in geological hypothesis can be given than Mantell's unexpected Lacertian from the old red sandstone of Scotland. (Vol. I, Palæozoic Strata.)

Since the former publication of these volumes, the favour of sovereigns has been extended to three of the most loved and honoured names in English geology. We have not found it possible to alter, in all our stereotyped pages, their social designations, but this can never be misinterpreted, Geology has but one example each of De la Beche, Lyell, and Murchison.

St. Mary's Lodge, York, 1852.