1869.] Geology and Palseoniology. 293 



far so ably by IMr. Alfi-ed E. C. Sehv}'n and bis staff — sboiild for 

 tbe present come to an end, and tbat these gentlemen should be 

 paid off and sent home to England, seems incredible, did we not 

 learn it from the best authority. Henceforth Mining and Mineral 

 Surveying will alone be considered ; but the completion of those 

 beautiful maps — some of which were exhibited by Mr. H. M, 

 Jenkins at Norwich, in illustration of his paper " On the Tertiary 

 Deposits of Victoria "* — will, we fear, now be a far distant event. 

 Strange that the presence of the noble metal. Gold, should render 

 men so shortsighted — nay, blind — to the best interests of the 

 Colony, as to decide that its geological resources shall remain un- 

 mapped and unexplored. Has there arisen a rival geological 

 prophet who objects to Mr. Selwyn's observations on the age of 

 true Auriferous Quartz-reefs because he had a non-auriferous 

 quartz-reef for sale ? f 



Fossil Botany.— Mr. K. H. Scott, M.A., F.G-.S. (who obtained 

 from the Council of the British Association a grant of 100?. in aid 

 of the exploration of the Greenland Plant-bed), has just forwarded 

 to the British Museum a series of the leaf-impressions from 

 Atanekerdluk, W. Greenland, collected by E. Whymper, Esq., 

 and described by Dr. Oswald Heer, in his Flora fossilis Arctica.'X 



Another series of leaf-impressions from the Pipe-clay Bed 

 (Lower Bagshot), Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, collected by W. Stephen 

 Mitchell, M.A., F.G.S., also under a grant from the British Asso- 

 ciation, have likewise been placed in the British Museum. 



The collection of leaves most nearly resembling the Greenland 

 series are from the Miocene Tertiary Fire-clay deposit, overlying the 

 celebrated burning coal-seam on the ]\Iackenzie Eiver, near to the 

 Great Bear Lake, described by the late Sir John Kichardson, the 

 leader of the Boat-expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. 



Obituary Notices. — All geologists will sympathize with the 

 " Old Silurian Chief " in the loss of Lady Murchison, though she 

 has gone from us in the fulness of years and honours. 



Her scientific attainments and abihties as a naturalist were weU 

 known, and it has alwaj^s been Sir Koderick's pleasure to attribute 

 to Lady Murchi&on's influence his first pursuit of geology as a 

 study, and his subsequent success to her unfaihng sympathy and 

 suj)port. 



The Irish branch of the Geological Sui'vey of Great Britain has 

 received a severe check, in the loss by death of Mr. George V. Du 

 Noyer, M.R.I.A., F.E.G.S.I., &c.. District Surveyor of H. M. 

 Geological Survey in Ireland. His work, commencing as it did 



* ' Briti.-^h Association Reports.' Norwich, 1868. Section C. 

 t See ' Geol. Mag.,' 1866, vol. iii., p. 457 and p. 561. 



j Die Fossile Flora der Polarlander von Dr. O. Heer. Zurich, 1868, 4to, 

 pp. 192 (50 plates), 



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