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membered for his researches on the geology of 
Trinidad 1 
this subject he contributed upwards of fifty papers, 
several of which were published by the Geological 
Society of London, He accumulated a great know- 
ledge of the Tertiary faunas of that region, and did 
much towards rendering a correlation of the various 
horizons represented. His earlier memoirs dealt with 
the San Fernando deposits of Trinidad containing 
Orbitoidal and other fossils, which at first he regarded 
as of older Miocene age, but which afterwards he 
more correctly assigned to the younger Eocene or 
Lower Oligocene. He was always an _ ardent 
student of natural history, being particularly 
interested in the recent and fossil mollusca, and was 
also an authority on the rich deposits of petroleum 
which have made Trinidad so famous. Some years 
ago he was instrumental in acquiring for the British 
Museum the second largest known Pleurotomaria, pos- 
sessing a height of 150 millimetres, which was 
discovered off the island of Tobago. Mr. Guppy was 
a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of 
London, and of the New York and Philadelphia 
Academies of Science. He had served as president 
of the Scientific Association of Trinidad, and was the 
first presiding officer of the Reyal Victoria Institute 
Board. Much work yet remains to be accomplished 
among the Tertiary rocks of Trinidad, as many of the 
geological horizons are still in confusion and 
imperfectly understood; but whatever is attempted in 
the future, there is no doubt that Mr. Guppy’s valuable 
memoirs will always furnish us with an important 
basis for later investigations on so interesting a 
subject. 
Mr. E. G. Kensit, who fell in action at Delville 
Wood on July 17, was a great-nephew of the late Dr. 
Harry Bolus, and became a.member of the staff of the 
Bolus Herbarium in the Botanical. Department of the 
South African College in 1912. In August, 1915, he 
enlisted in the South African contingent for service 
overseas. After a period of training at Potchefstroom, 
he was sent to Egypt, and served through the Senussi 
campaign. .The circumstances of the death are de- 
scribed in: the following extract from’ the Cape Times 
of August 30 :—‘ On the colonel of his regiment calling 
for a volunteer for the purpose of reconnoitring the 
enemy’s line and securing certain information, Kensit 
was among those who stepped forward, and his offer 
was accepted.” 'He was seen to be hit as he crawled. 
away, but he continued with his task, and after an 
interval crept slowly back, hampered by his wound. 
On reaching the parapet he was assisted to surmount 
it.. He was able to give the officer all the information 
that was wanted, but he had no sooner done ‘so than 
he rolled over—dead.” . : 
WE regret to learn that Mr. Gustav Mann died at 
Munich on June 22, in his eighty-first year. To him 
we owe our knowledge of the botany of the Cameroon 
Mountain, for he was: the pioneer of botanical ex- 
ploration in this region when he was attached to Dr. 
Baikie’s Niger Expedition in 1859 as botanical collec- 
tor for Kew. He ascended Clarence Peak, in Fer- 
nando Po, and made extensive collections of plants 
from the mountains of western tropical Africa, which 
have been described in papers presented to the Linnean 
Society. He then went out to India, and after serving 
for a year as assistant in the Government cinchona 
plantations was transferred in 1864 to the Bengal 
Forestry Department. From 1868 he served in Assam, 
and in 1882 was appointed Conservator of Forests, 
which position he held with distinction until his retire- 
ment ‘in 1891. 
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and the other West Indian islands. On 
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WE learn from the British Medical Journal that. 
Lieut.-Col. G, M. J. Giles, Bengal Medical Service 
(retired), died at Plymouth on August 24, aged sixty- 
two. In his early service he spent some years as 
surgeon naturalist in the Indian survey ship, the — 
Royal Indian Marine steamer In¥estigator, and in 
1886-87 accompanied the late General Sir William 
Lockhart on an exploring expedition in the Pamirs. 
He was the author of works on kala-azar and beri-beri, 
mosquitoes, climate and health in hot countries, and 
tropical climatology. 
A FEpDERATION of British Industries has been formed 
to provide a body capable of representing the interests 
of the British manufacturing and producing industries," 
The objects of the federation may be summed up 
briefly as the organisation and development of industry 
now and after the war, in co-operation with labour and 
in conjunction with the Government and Government 
departments. The federation will at once concern 
itself with the reconstruction of British trade after the 
war; the development of sources of supply of raw 
materials; and questions arising out of the transition: 
from war to peace, such as measures to mitigate pos- 
sible unemployment during that period. Every effort 
is to be made to ensure that in future no important 
action affecting British industry shall be taken by the 
Government without due weight being given to the 
views of manufacturers. A condition of membership 
is an annual subscription of tool. a year, with an 
obligation to continue such subscription until June 30, 
1919. Mr. F. Dudley Docker, C.B., is the president. 
of the federation. ; 
Tue recently issued report (Cd, 8346) of the Com- 
mittee on Financial Facuities tor Trade to the Presi- 
dent of the Board of 1rade recommends the establish- 
ment of a British Trade Bank, constituted under Royal 
Charter, to fill the gap between the home banks and 
the Colonial and British-foreign banking houses, and 
to develop facilities not provided by the present sys- 
tem. It is proposed that the bank should have a 
capital of 10,000,000l., and should, among other activi- 
ties, inaugurate an intormation bureau, co-operate with 
merchant and manufacturer, and become a centre 
for syndicate operations. ‘The bureau, it is suggested, 
should be independent of the Commercial Intelligence 
Branch of the Board of Trade, and would not neces- 
sarily deal only with schemes in which the bank pro- 
posed to take financial interests, but might be made 
a centre for the investigation of other projects. The 
report urges that if financial assistance is given by the 
Government to undertakings in connection with what 
are known as ‘‘key"’ industries, the business should 
be done through the new bank. The committee 
thinks that such a bank would, with efficient manage- 
ment, not only be a great boon to British trade, bu 
also should prove a commercial success. f, 
An important addition to the art collections of the 
Philadelphia Museum is reported in the Museum 
Journal for last March. Mrs. Dillwyn Parrish, of Lon- 
don, has presented five Roman mosaics in memory 
of her late husband. Of these, the two most interest- 
ing specimens from the point of view of size come 
from Carthage; the other three, smaller, but charm- 
ing, examples, are “said to have been obtained in 
Rome. The Carthage mosaics are examples of opus 
vernriculatum—cubes of marble or other material dis- 
posed so as to attain to a pictorial effect. One of the 
Italian pieces, representing a duck, has much in 
common with some of the mosaics found in the 
House of the Faun in Pompeii. Another, consider- 
ably later in date, represents two griffins facing an 
urn, and is an example of the stiff, conventional, 
unimaginative work of the second century a.p. On 
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