Obituary-. Dr, Yelloly— Rev. J. M'Enery. 54'7 



honourably associated with that of the early school of Scottish mine- 

 ralogists. Every geologist who has had occasion to visit the West of 

 Scotland, found iu his house a hearty welcome, and in his beautiful 

 museum much instruction respecting the vast variety of simple mine- 

 rals in which that region abounds. At the meeting of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Glasgow, he 

 filled the office of one of the local secretaries, on which occasion he 

 was untiring in his exertions, and unbounded in his hospitabty, whilst 

 he was of signal use in cementing the bonds of kind feeling between 

 his countrymen and the men of science who came among them as 

 visitors. Having been informed that Mr. Edington's minerals must 

 be disposed of, I beg to express my hope that a collection so choice, 

 and so higlily esteemed by mineralogists, may find some enlightened 

 purchaser worthy of its contents. 



Among our other deceased Fellows, I have still to mention three 

 whose names are connected with our pursuits, Mr. Snow of High- 

 gate, Dr. Yelloly, and Mr. M'^Enery. The first of these gentle- 

 men was not only a frequent attendant at our meetings, but an 

 assiduous collector of fossils and a donor to our museum, particu- 

 larly after the excavation of the Highgate tunnel, during which 

 operation he became possessed of a fine series of shells of the Lon- 

 don clay. 



Dr. Yplloly was a firm supporter of this Society at a period when 

 it was struggling for existence under the auspices of our first Presi- 

 dent, Mr. Greenough, and real and efficient friends were put to the 

 test. Dr. Yelloly was among the foremost of these as an active 

 member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, which body afforded 

 the rising geologists their first place of meeting in Lincoln's Inn 

 Fields, where our founders set up their standard of independence, 

 and claimed to have an existence as uncontrolled by the Royal So- 

 ciety, as the medical men wh'o aided them sought at the hands of the 

 College of Physicians. The advantages which science has reaped 

 from this independence of action and division of labour is now, 

 indeed, admitted even by those who were opponents and have lived 

 to sec our success. In late years, as in early life, Dr. Yelloly Mas 

 forward aiul at his post when any liberal measure was proposed 

 coimected with the progress of science ; he took an active part in 

 the formation of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, and when that body met at Birmingham he performed the 

 duties of President of its medical section. 



The liov. J. M'^Eneky, a Roman Catholic clergyman, and a zeal- 

 ous fossil osteologist, was first brouglit into geological notice by his 

 labours in the bonocaves of Devonshire, near Torquay, where lie 

 resided. His ])njionged researches in these caves produced an im- 

 mense collection of fossil bones of the same species of quadrupeds 

 as those which occurred in the celebrated Kirkdalo cavern. The 

 most striking inferciuce from tiiis collection, was a perfect demon- 

 stration of tiie agency of hyamas in collecting the herbivorous ani- 

 mals into caverns during long periods, proved by the absence of 

 rolled bones and the ubuudancc of fractured osseous fragments 



