“The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.” NOTE.—We do not like to close this chapter without mentioning the name of _Mary Anning_, of Lyme Regis. It is mainly to her practical talent and perseverance that we owe these relics of past ages found in the lias: the history of the British Museum will have to record this humble name, as well as that of Sir Hans Sloane, its founder. The following we borrow from Miss Zornlin’s “Recreations in Geology,” p. 197— “Mary Anning died in 1847. Her father, by trade a carpenter, was in his own neighbourhood one of the first collectors of _coorosities_, as they are locally termed, such as _petrified ladies’ fingers_ and _turbots_ (as the fish were termed), _verterbarries_ (vertebræ), _cornemonius_ (ammonites), and _crocodiles’ jaws_ (ichthyosauri), &c. He died when his daughter Mary was about ten or eleven years old; and the circumstances of the family being straitened, she went down one day to the beach to search for ‘coorosities.’ She found a fine specimen of an ammonite; and as she was coming home, a lady who met her in the street offered her half-a-crown for the fossil in her hand. Mary Anning’s future destiny was sealed. She prosecuted her searches ‘on beach,’ and in the following year (1811) observed among the ledges of the rocks a projecting bone of some animal. This enterprising girl (then only eleven years old) traced the fossil in the cliff, and hired some men to dig it out. It proved to be the skeleton of an ichthyosaurus, and has for many years formed an object of interest in the British Museum. Mary Anning afterwards sold this specimen for about 23_l._” To this we add, that in the “Memoirs of Ichthyosauri,” by Thomas Hawkins, Esq. reference is made to Miss Anning, as one “who devoted herself to science, and explored the frowning and precipitous cliffs, when the furious spring-tide conspired with the howling tempest to overthrow them, and rescued from the devouring ocean, sometimes at the peril of her life, the few specimens which originated all the facts and ingenious theories of those eminent persons, whose names must ever be remembered with sentiments of the liveliest gratitude.” CHAPTER IX. SECONDARY ROCKS. _3. The Oolite proper._ “O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all.”—DAVID.