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large quarto volume in 1844, with numerous plates, including figures 

 of several hundred new species of fossils, entitled, ' Synopsis of the 

 Carboniferous Limestone Fossils of Ireland/ and a smaller work in 

 1846, ' Synopsis of the Silurian Fossils of Ireland.' He was then 

 invited by Colonel Sir Henry James, R.E., and Sir Henry de la Beche 

 to join the Imperial Survey of Ireland, just then commenced, and, 

 after completing the maps of the districts surveyed by him in the field, 

 he was appointed by Sir Robert Peel's Government as one of the first 

 Professors of the Queen's University in Ireland, the Chair of Geology 

 and Mineralogy in the Northern College being assigned to him, where 

 he lectured in the Queen's College, Belfast, and examined students in 

 Dublin. About this time he undertook, in conjunction with the late 

 Professor Sedgwick, of Cambridge, the large work on British Palaeozoic 

 Rocks and Fossils, based on the materials in the Woodwardian Museum 

 at Cambridge, and to make the critical examination of the great series 

 of fossils of the older formations brought together by Sedgwick. The 

 results of these labours were deemed worthy of the compliment of 

 publication by the Syndics of the University Press of Cambridge in a 

 large quarto volunie, with numerous plates of new species of fossils 

 from the Carboniferous, Devonian, Silurian, and Cambrian formations, 

 which was issued in 1852, as the second volume of a proposed joint 

 work (but the first volume, which was to have comprised the Rocks, 

 by Professor Sedgwick, was never published), entitled ' British 

 Palaeozoic Rocks and Fossils,' by Professors Sedgwick and McCoy. 



Professor McCoy was shortly afterwards appointed by Sir J. 

 Herschel and the Astronomer Royal, Sir G. B. Airy, as the first Pro- 

 fessor of Natural Science in the new University of Melbourne, where, 

 having taken part in the formation of the University, he lectured on 

 chemistry, mineralogy, botany, comparative anatomy, zoology, geology, 

 and palaeontology for upwards of thirty years. He also established 

 the National Museum of Natural History and Geology in Melbourne, 

 of which he was Director to the last, which has risen to a distin- 

 guished position, not only by the extent of its collections but also by 

 the perfection of their classification. Professor McCoy was Chairman 

 of the first Royal Commission for International and Intercolonial 

 Exhibitions for the Colony of Victoria. He was appointed Govern- 

 ment Palaeontologist at an early stage of the Geological Survey, 

 determining the ages of the various tracts published on the maps. For 

 over thirty years he prepared and continued to publish in decades, at 

 short intervals, two works for the Government of Victoria: one 

 entitled, ' Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria,' with coloured 

 figures from the life ; and another, ' Prodromus of the Palaeontology of 

 Victoria.' He was a Justice of the Peace for Victoria. He was 

 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1880, and was 



