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work in England and Wales (and afterwards in Scot- 

 land) was assigned to A. C. Ramsay as Local Director 

 for Great Britain. The Irish branch was entrusted to 

 the care of Captain James, 1 R.E. A palaeontologist 

 was appointed, and the office was filled by Edward 

 Forbes. W. W. Smyth 2 became Mining Geologist, and 

 Dr. (now Sir Joseph) Hooker was a year later made 

 Botanist to the Geological Survey of the United 

 Kingdom. Dr. Lyon Playfair (now Lord Playfair) 

 was appointed Chemist, while Richard Phillips still 

 remained in charge of the original laboratory of the 

 Museum. Robert Hunt succeeded T. B. Jordan as 

 Keeper of Mining Records. 



The staff of geological surveyors under Ramsay, 

 besides W. T. Aveline, Trevor E. James, D. H. 

 Williams, and H. W. Bristow, 3 already members of 

 the Ordnance Geological Survey, was now augmented 

 by the appointment of W. H. Baily 4 and of A. R. C. 

 Selwyn 5 a name which will be frequently mentioned 

 in the course of this Memoir. Besides these officers, 

 the staff included a few assistants for special services. 

 R. Gibbs, 6 one of the most admirable collectors the 



1 Captain (afterwards Sir) Henry James, born 1803, died 1877; resigned 

 the Directorship of the Geological Survey of Ireland in June 1846, and was suc- 

 ceeded by Thomas Oldham. Pie afterwards held for many years the appointment 

 of Director of the Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom. 



2 Warington W. Smyth, born 1817, died 1890; son of Admiral W. H. 

 Smyth ; Lecturer on Mining and Mineralogy in the Royal School of Mines from 

 1851 to the time of his death. Knighted in 1887. 



3 Henry William Bristow, born 1817, died 1889; appointed to the Survey 

 in 1842 ; became Director for England and Wales in 1872 ; an able and accurate 

 surveyor of Secondary and Tertiary formations, and, from his genial and 

 courteous manners, a great favourite among his colleagues. 



4 William Hellier Baily, born 1819, died 1888; transferred in 1856 to the 

 Irish staff, where he acted as Palaeontologist. 



5 Alfred R. C. Selwyn, after doing admirable work in the mapping of North 

 Wales, resigned, in July 1852, to accept the charge of the Geological Survey of 

 Victoria. On the resignation of Sir William Logan, he was appointed Director 

 of the Geological Survey of Canada, an office which he still worthily fills. 



6 Richard Gibbs, a native of Gloucestershire, was first employed by De la 

 Beche in running sections in the Mitcheldean district, and made himself so useful 



