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under the late General Portlock, extends over nearly thirty years. 

 His pen and pencil have aided in the task of completing forty-eight 

 sheets of the Map of Ireland. He was an admiraLle draughtsman, 

 and his sketches are well known among geologists and archaeologists. 

 He was carried off suddenly by fever, on January ord, at Antrim, 

 greatly to the regret of his numerous friends. He leaves a widow 

 and three children unprovided for. 



Among the great men who have dropped from the geological 

 ranks during the last year must be mentioned Dr. Home's, of the 

 K.K. Mineralien-Cabinet, Vienna. His work on ' The IMolluscan 

 Fauna of the Vienna Tertiary Basin ' is unrivalled, and the death of 

 its author just as it was arriving at its completion will be deeply 

 regretted. 



Principal Forbes, of St. Andrew's, was a man who justly held a 

 high position among men of science. He was a F.E.S. of London 

 and Edinburgh : and his books and papers on ' Heat,' ' The Theory 

 of Glaciers ;' ' Travels in the Alps of Savoy ;' ' Norway and ite 

 Glaciers,' have exercised no little influence on Physical Geology. 



The Eev. S. W. King, M.A., F.S.A., F.G.S., of Saxlingham, 

 near Norwich, whose labours in the Crag and Norfolk Forest-bed 

 have resulted in a fine collection of Mammalian remains, now placed 

 in the Jermyn Street Museum. 



Nor should we pass over poor old John Euthven, the author of 

 a geological map of the Lake Country, and the faithful companion 

 and humble friend of Professor Sedg^vick in his many geological 

 rambles in the Skiddaw Slate District. 



Geology is largely indebted to such native talent in almost 

 every part of our island for some of the best chapters of its history. 



Proceedings of the Geological Society. 



Since our last Chronicle was written, IMr. Henry M. Jenkins, F.G.S., 

 Assistant Secretary to this Society during the past six years, and 

 Sub-editor of this Journal, having been elected to the post of Secre- 

 tary and Editor to the Eoyal Agricultural Society of England, has 

 retired ; and Mr. W. S. Dallas (for ten years Curator to the Yorkshire 

 Philosophical Society's Museum, York), has been appointed in his 

 stead. The February number of the Proceedings, however, is 

 edited by Mr. H. M. Jenkins. It contains nine papers published 

 in full, and six in abstract, besides several translations of foreign 

 papers. 



Among these papers are several which have been postponed : — 

 (1.) Mr. G. W. Ormerod has a short notice of the probable occur- 

 rence of the " Water-stone Beds " of the Keuper (containing pseudo- 

 morphous crystals of Chloride of Sodium) in the counties of 

 Somerset and Devon. 



