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his discretion . But a member of tho Lodge objecting , the Master would not be at liberty to admit . " This brings us . to the end of the seventh chapter of the first part leaving about two thirds of tho volume untouched ; the whole being too bulky , and containing matter of too groat moment to be compressed within the usual limits of a magazine review . We shall , therefore , in an early number resume our notice of this subject .

Loons UEASOSS i'oa SOD AVnrm . c m _ Lira . —My birth was neither so humble that , like John Jones , I have been obliged amongst my lays to lay the cloth , ancl to court the cook and the muses at the same time ; nor yet so lofty that , with rt certain lady of title , I could not write without letting myself down . Then , for education , though , on tho one hand , I have not taken my degree with Elucher . yet , ou the other , I have rusticated at thc Open Air School , like thc poet of Helpstone . As for incidents of importance , I remember none , except being drawn for a soldier , whicli hoaxand h the

was a , aving opportunity of giving a casting vote on a great parochial question , only I didn't attend . I have never been third in a duel , or crossed in love . The stream of time lias flowed on with me very like that of the-: New River , which everybody knows has so little romance about it , that its head has never troubled us with a tale . My own story , then , to possess any interest , lniisd be a fib . Truly given , with its egotism and its barrenness , it would look too like the chalked advertisements on a dead will . Moreover , Pope has read a lesson to self in tho Memoirs of

-importance P . P ., the parish clerk , who was only notable , after all , amongst his neighbours , as a swallower of loaches . To conclude , my life— " upon my life , "—is not worth giving , or taking . The principal just suffices me to live upon - ^ and , of course , would att ' ord little interest to any one else . Bosides ^ I have a bad memory , ancl a personal history would assuredly be but a middling one , of which I have forgotten the beginning , ancl cannot foresee tho end . I must , therefore , respectfully decline giving my life to the world—at least till I have done with it .

GEOLOGISTS' A ' SSOCIATIO :.. —At a meeting of this association , held at 5 , Cavendish , square , a paper was read by the president , the Kev . Thomas AViltshive , M . A . "F U _ . on the red chalk of England , at Spcoton in Yorkshire , and Hunstanton in Norfolk , at both of which places there are very interesting sections . The fossils found in this chalk are but few ; of whicli specimens were exhibited . Some of them bear a close resemblance to those iu thegault of the southeast of England , ancl it lias been thought from this , ancl tbe further fact , that it- is found below tho white chalk and sandthat it

upper green , may be the equivalent to the ga _ . lt . Analysis shows that tho colour of tho red chalk is clue to the large amount of peroxide of iron which it contains . Through the kindness of N . T . AVotheroll , Esq ,, of Highgate , who took part in thc discussion which followed the reading of thc paper , several of the fossils characteristic of tlie red chalk , and rounded fragments of tho chalk itself from in the boulder or drift bed at Muswell Hill , near Horiissiwere exhibited . Mr . AA ethercil stated that tho Muswell Hill specimens were mixed in t

a mosextraordinary maimer with fossils from all this formations , from the London clay downward to the carboniferous limestone , as well as fragments of tho granite , gueissic , prophyritic , and . other rocks . Professor Tennauf , E . G __ S . J . Mackie , Esq ., E . G .... ; Bro . Hyde Clark , D . C . L ., and other members of the as- ' ceiatioa , also took part in the discussion . Several donations to the museum of " the association were announced in thc- course of tho evening , and about twenty newmembers were elected . S . J . Mackie , Esq ,, will read a paper on the Geology o f the South East of England , on Monday , 2 nd of Mav .