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by a cold caught in riding out on the 19th ulto., ended his valu- 

 able and well-spent life on Sunday evening, Oct. 22, at 8.30 p.m. 



His scientific career, now brought to a close, represents the 

 period of the dawn and development of Geology as a science in 

 this country. He commenced work at the moment when William 

 Smith issued the first Geologically-coloured map of England, and 

 he has lived on to see half the world surveyed geologically, and 

 has himself mapped a vast extent of territory in Europe for his 

 Silurian kina'dom. 



In conclusion (to quote the words of the Daily Neics)^ " the 

 honors he won are a great testimony to the scientific enlighten- 

 ment of the age. We have crowned Science Queen, and all her 

 servants form her court, and wear the titles she bestows. And, 

 truly, a scientific man earns his honours more nobly, and wears 

 them more honourably than those who win them in political in- 

 trigue or on the field of battle. Sir Roderick Murchison, dying 

 at eighty, covered with titles of literary and scientific honour, 

 and satisfied with social position and renown, is a prophet of the 

 coming time. He may not be looked back on as a great scien- 

 tific genius ; but he is one of the pioneers of that new order of 

 renown which is won by fruitful service rather than by destruc- 

 tive deeds." 



— From the Geological Magazine for November^ 1871. 



(Proposed new genus of Pteropoda.) 



Genus Hyolithellus, N. G. 



Since the sheet containing the description of Hyolithes micans 

 was printed off, I have arrived at the conclusion that a new genus 

 for its reception should be instituted. I propose to call it ffyo- 

 lithelhis. It differs from Hyolithes, in its long slender form and 

 in the peculiar structure of its operculum. 



E. Billings. 



Published December, 1871. 



