240 Miscellaneous — Geological Map of City of Dublin Area. 



of the Royal College of Science. In December, 1887, he was 

 appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the post of 

 Government Geologist for Western Australia, where he has ever 

 since resided. In 1 895 he resigned his appointment as Government 

 Geologist and entered the service of Messrs. Bewick, Moreing & Co., 

 the Colonial Government conferring upon him the title of Honorary 

 Consulting Geologist and Mining Engineer to the Colony. In 1883 

 Mr. H. P. Woodward was made a Justice of the Peace for the Colony. 

 In 1897 he severed his connexion with the firm of Bewick, Moreing & 

 Go. and commenced business as a Consulting Mining Engineer in 

 Perth. After eleven years of unofficial geological work in West 

 Australia Mr. Woodward, in 1906, rejoined the Government Geological 

 Survey under Mr. A. Gibb Maitland, a post he continued to hold up 

 to the time of his death, which occurred (after a brief illness) on 

 February 7 last. 1 



On December 31, 1890, Mr. Woodward married Ellen Maude, the 

 second daughter of the Hon. J. F. T. Hassell, of Albany ; he leaves 

 a widow and three sons, the second of whom has recently joined the 

 Australian Army. 



MISOELLAISTBOUS. 



Geological Map of Cur of Dublin Area. 



The Ordnance Survey has published, at the price of 3s., a Geological 

 Map of Dublin, on the scale of six inches to one mile, prepared by 

 the Geological Survey of Ireland (Department of Agriculture and 

 Technical Instruction"). It extends from Clontarf and Sandymount 

 to Castleknock and Drimnagh, thus including the City, Phoenix Park, 

 and a large residential district. The superficial deposits, boulder- 

 ■clay, gravels of various types, and materials on the area intaken from 

 the sea, are shown by colours, the underlying limestone rock 

 appearing only in a few rare patches. Hence the map is of special 

 service to architects and engineers, and to all who are concerned with 

 house-sites and town-planning. The topographic basis is identical 

 with Sheet 18 of the Ordnance Survey map of the County of Dublin, 

 and hence a map of the city is provided on a large scale in addition 

 to the geological information. Among the points of interest brought 

 out on the map are the courses of the partially concealed streams that 

 run into the Liffey on the southern side; the great plateau of 

 boulder-clay that masks the old bank of the Liffey in the region of 

 Phoenix Park ; and several of the gravel mounds of the Greenhills 

 esker, which have supplied so much material for roads and building 

 purposes. The alterations, partly due to human and partly to 

 marine agency, in the coastline at the west end of Dublin Bay, are 

 well shown by the insertion, in red dotted lines, of the coast, as 

 represented in a map by Bernard de Gomme, published in 1673. The 

 district is described in detail in the illustrated Memoir of the 

 Geological Survey on the country around Dublin (1903 ; price 3s.). 



1 For a fuller notice of H. P. Woodward's life and work see the Geological 

 Magazine for September, 1897, pp. 385-8 (with a portrait). 



