e Geological Society, Anniversary Address.

[4] Probably one of the Isastrea of Edwards.

[5] See a paper by the Rev. P.B. Brodie, on Lias Corals, "Edinburgh New
Philosophic Journal," April, 1857.

[6] The verses here referred to are introduced into "My Schools and
Schoolmasters," chapter tenth.

[7] For a description of this pond see "My Schools and Schoolmasters,"
chapter tenth.

[8] These remarks refer to the poem "On Seeing a Sun-Dial in a
Churchyard," which was introduced here when these chapters were first
published in the "Witness," but, having been afterwards inserted in the
tenth chapter of "My Schools and Schoolmasters," is not here reproduced.

[9] Mr. Peach has discovered fossils in the Durness limestone, which
rests above the quartzite rock of the west of Scotland, that covers the
Red Sandstone long believed to be OLD RED. The fossils are very
obscure.--W.S.S.

[10] This second title hears reference to the extent of the author's
geologic excursions in Scotland, during the nine years from 1840 to 1848
inclusive.

[11] Since the above was written, I have seen an interesting paper in
"Hogg's Weekly Instructor," in which the Rev. Mr. Longmuir of Aberdeen
describes a visit to the Lias clay at Blackpots. Mr. Longmuir seems to
have given more time to his researches than I found it agreeable, in a
very indifferent day to devote to mine; and his list of fossils is
considerably longer. Their evidence, however, runs in exactly the same
tract with that of the shorter list. He had been told at Banff that the
clay contained "petrified tangles;" and the first organism shown him by
the workmen, on his arrival at the deposit, were some of the "tangles"
in question. "These" he goes on to say, "we found, as may have already
been anticipated, to be pieces of Belemnites, well known on the other
side of the Frith as 'thunderbolts,' and esteemed of sovereign efficacy
in the cure of bewitched cattle." Though still wide of the mark, there
is here an evident descent from the supernatural to the physical, from
the superstitious to the true. "Satisfied that we had a mass of Lias
clay before us, we set vigorously to work, in order either to find
additional characteristic fossils, or obtain data on which to form a
conjecture as to the history of this out-of-the-way deposit; and our
labor was not without its reward. We shall now present a brief account
of the specimens we picked up. Observing a number of stones of different
siz