334 Obituary — Thomas McKenny Hughes, M.A. 



in regard to faunal dissimilarity ; the third, geological — a com- 

 munication by Mr. J. W. Tutcher, embodying his reading of the 

 sequence in the lower part of the Lower Lias carried down to the 

 base of the Hettangian. 



OBITTJAET. 



PROFESSOR ROBERT BELL, 

 I.S.O., M.D., D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Born 1841. Died June 18, 1917. 



Professor Dr. Robert Bell, F.R.S. (formerly Chief Geologist of 

 the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa), died suddenly on June 18, 

 1917, at Rathwell, Manitoba. Dr. Bell, who was 76 years of age, 

 joined the Geological Survey of Canada in 1857, and subsequently 

 made extensive topographical and geological surveys in various parts 

 of the Dominion. He acted as Medical Officer, Naturalist, and 

 Geologist combined on several expeditions to Hudson's Bay and 

 Baffin Land. The Bell River, which he surveyed in 1895, was 

 officially named after him. He also made the first surveys of some 

 of the largest lakes in Canada. He was the Canadian correspondent 

 of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society since its foundation. — 

 Westminster Gazette, June 20, 1917. 



THOMAS McKENNY HUGHES, M.A., 



Trinitv College, Cambridge ; Professorial Fellow of Clare College, 

 Woodwardian Professor of Geology; F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. ; 

 Chev. Ord. SS. Maur. et Lazar. Ital. ; Corr. Memb. Soc. 

 Geol. Belg., Soc. Geol. France, Germany, Italy, etc. 



Born December, 1832. Died June 9, 1917. 



"We deeply regret to record the death, on June 9, of our friend of 

 fifty 3*ears — a frequent contributor to the Geological Magazine — 

 Mr. T. McKenny Hughes, M.A., F.R.S., Woodwardian Professor of 

 Geology in the University of Cambridge, in his 85th year. 



A life of Professor Hughes with a very excellent portrait appeared 

 in the Geological Magazine (n.s., Dec. V, Vol. Ill, No. 1, pp. 1-13, 

 January, 1906). 



The following appeared in the Times, June 11, 1917 : — 



Mr. T. McKenny Hughes "was born at Aberystwith, and was 

 a member of a distinguished family. His grandfather, Sir Thomas 

 McKenny, took a prominent part in Catholic emancipation in Ireland, 

 his father became Bishop of St. Asaph, and one of his brothers is 

 Bishop of Llandaff. 



" Hughes was educated at Leamington and Llandovery Colleges, 

 and took his degree at Cambridge in 1857 as a member of Trinity 

 College. In 1860 he was appointed Secretary to the British Consul 

 at Rome, and was left Acting Consul in that City in 1860 and 1861. 



