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appointed Curator, also assuming duties as Lecturer on Natural 
Science to the Literary and Philosophical Society. 
In 1843; Simpson published a short Monograph giving descriptions 
of more than 100 Ammonites of the Yorkshire Lias; and in 1855 he 
published descriptions of all the known fossils of the Yorkshire Lias, 
and an outline of the Geology of the Coast. A second edition of 
“The Fossils of the Yorkshire Lias” was published in 1884, while 
his ‘‘ Guide to the Geology of the Yorkshire Coast ” reached a fourth 
edition in 1868. As Simpson’s descriptions of his fossils were not 
properly defined, only about 20 of his original species of Ammonites 
are now accepted. 
In 1884 the Murchison Geological Fund was awarded by the 
Geological Society to Simpson, and he then remarked that he felt the 
more honoured as he had received no assistance or encouragement 
from his fellow-townsmen. 

WE also have to record the death of BENJAMIN VETTER, Professor 
of Zoology at the Polytechnic in Dresden; of the veteran Russian 
mineralogist, N. I. KokscHArow, author of the Beitriige zur Mineralogie 
Russlands; and of H. F. Bianrorp, F.R.S., late Chief of the 
Meteorological Department in India. 
WE are happy to state that the announcement of the death of 
Dr. D. Stur appearing in. certain French and English papers, is 
founded on the mis-translation of a German paragraph. The late 
Director of the Austrian Geological Survey is now enjoying a State 
pension. 
