obtusifolia, 489

144. Apparent Fern (_new_), 490

145. Pachypteris, 490

146. Phlebopteris, 491

147. Unnamed Fossil Plant, 492

148. Pentagon, illustrative of Fern allies, 493

149. Imbricated Stem, 494

150. Fossil Plant (_Helmsdale_), 495

151. Dicotyledonous Leaf of the Oolite, 496

152. Fern, 497

MEMORIALS

OF

HUGH MILLER.

Unknown he came. He went a Mystery--
A mighty vessel foundered in the calm,
Her freight half-given to the world. To die
He longed, nor feared to meet the great "I AM."
Fret not. God's mystery is solved to him.
He quarried Truth all rough-hewn from the earth,
And chiselled it into a perfect gem--
A rounded Absolute. Twain at a birth--
Science with a celestial halo crowned,
And Heavenly Truth--God's Works by His Word illumed--
These twain he viewed in holiest concord bound.
Reason outsoared itself. His mind consumed
By its volcanic fire, and frantic driven,
He dreamed himself in hell and woke in heaven.

EDINBURGH, December, 1856.

MEMORIALS

OF THE

DEATH AND CHARACTER OF HUGH MILLER,

WITH AN

ACCOUNT OF HIS FUNERAL OBSEQUIES.

Near the end of last autumn the American publishers of Hugh Miller's
works received from him, through his Edinburgh publishers, the offer of
a new work from his pen. The offer was accepted and a contract was at
once closed. Soon the advance sheets began to come; and as successive
portions were received and perused, it became more and more evident that
the work was destined not only to extend his fame, but to establish for
him new and special claims to the admiration and gratitude of mankind.
In the midst of these anticipations, and ere more than half the sheets
had been received, the publishers and the public here were startled by
the news that Mr. Miller had come to a violent death. The paragraph
conveying the intelligence was such as to leave the mind in a state of
painful suspense. But the next steamer from Europe brought full details
of the lamentable event. It appeared that in a momentary fit of mental
aberra