384 Obituanj—Mr. R. W. Mylne, F.B.S., etc. 



to such an extent as to cause anxiety in the minds of his intimate 

 friends, he could scarcely be persuaded to give himself any relaxation 

 from his official labours, the scrupulously conscientious performance 

 of which had characterized him throughout life, and he attended the 

 soiree of the Royal Society on June 18th, the evening before his 

 death. Sir Warington Smyth married, in 1864, Antonia, daughter 

 of the late A. M. Story-Maskelyne, of Basset Down, Wilts, and 

 he leaves two sons. 



As a lecturer on Mining to students he was most popular, and his 

 discourses were amongst the most largely attended of any of those 

 delivered at the Koyal School of Mines. These lectures were never 

 published, but a short-hand report of the course, taken by a writer 

 employed by Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., of Tokio, Japan, when he 

 was himself one of Prof. Smyth's students, and afterwards privately 

 printed, exists in the archives at Jermyn Street. It would be a 

 pleasing memorial to Sir Warington Smyth, if some of his old 

 students undertook to reprint these (after being carefully edited), 

 and issued them as a testimonial of their love and esteem for their 

 Professor. 



ROBERT WILLIAM MYLNE, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Born, June 14, 1816 ; Died, July 2, 1890. 



We regret to record the death of another old member and past 

 officer of the Geological Society of London. Mr. R. W. Mylne, F.R.S., 

 who died on the 2nd July, 1890, in his 75th year. 



By profession Mr. Mylne was a Civil Engineer and Architect, 

 particularly directing his attention to matters concerning the Water- 

 supply of large towns. This special bias to his career was doubtless 

 greatly due to the fact that his father held the post for fifty years of 

 Engineer to the New River Company. Although not himself an 

 official of that Company, he took part in engineering work required 

 by them, in association with his father, for about twenty years. 

 The knowledge so obtained is shown in his evidence before the 

 Royal Commission on Water-Supply on the 6th June, 1867, and in 

 his paper " On the Supply of Water from Artesian Wells in the 

 London Basin, with an account of the Sinking of the Well at the 

 Reservoir of the New River Company at Hampstead Road ;" 1 and 

 in his work published in 1850, "Sections of the London Strata," in 

 which many " deep wells " of those days are recorded, but none of 

 them pass through the Chalk ; the deepest being 522 feet. 



About 1857 he published a Contour Map of the Metropolis, and 

 in 1871 a similar map, geologically coloured, appeared. He was 

 elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1848 ; and 

 was on the Council of that Society from 1854 to 1868, and again 

 in 1879. In the years 1856 and 1857 he held office as one of the 

 Secretaries, the other being the late Sir Warington W. Smyth, 

 F.R.S. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1860. 

 For many years he served the office of Treasurer to the Geological 

 Club. W. R. J. 



1 Trans. Inst. Civil Eng. vol. iii. pp. 234-244, 1842. This includes Eeports by 

 "W. C. Mylne and J. Simpson. 



