556 Obituary — George C. Crick. 



Chairman, and he continued to act in that capacity till the termination 

 of the Commission in 1886. 



Meantime in November, 1881, he undertook work in a voluntary 

 capacity in the Geological Department of the British Museum 

 (Natural History), and was then employed as a temporary Assistant 

 in 1882 ; on April 19, 1886, he was taken on the establishment as 

 an Assistant of the Second Class. 



At the Museum he was given charge of the Fossil Cephalopoda, 

 then much in need of attention, and throwing his whole heart into 

 the work has left it one of the best arranged and indexed collections 

 in the institution. 



This group was at that time in process of being catalogued by 

 Mr. A. H. Foord, who writes as follows: "I had the happiness 

 of knowing the late Mr. G. C. Crick for many years, as I was 

 intimately associated with him in the Geological Department of the 

 British Museum. Our work running on similar lines we wrote 

 several papers jointly for this Magazine and for the Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History. Great patience and minute attention 

 to details were conspicuous in all his work, and his researches were 

 therefore highly valued by students of palaeontology in the branch 

 which he made his own, viz. the Belemnites and the Ammonites. 

 He will be greatly missed by all his colleagues." Crick further 

 assisted Foord largely with the first two volumes of the Catalogue 

 of Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum, issued in 1888 and 

 1891, and was joint author with Foord of the third volume 

 (Bactrites and Ammonoidea, pars), published in 1897 : whilst he 

 compiled the List of Types and Figured Specimens of Fossil Cephalo- 

 poda in the British Museum {Natural History), which saw the light 

 in 1898. 



Sixty-seven papers, including seven written in association with 

 A. H. Foord, and one with It. Bullen Newton, stand to Crick's credit in 

 various scientific publications. In the course of these, seventy-four 

 new species are described and three new genera founded (Amphoreopsis, 

 Styracoteuthis, and Belemnocamax). This is quite a moderate number 

 for any student of fossil Cephalopoda, but his inclinations were ever 

 toward the morphological side of his subject, and especially any 

 feature of mechanical interest. This is very evident in his beauti- 

 fully constructed model of the Ascoceras shell, and of the guard and 

 phragmocone of the Belemnite, as well as in the question of the 

 attachment of the animal to its shell in Nautiloids and Ammonoids. 

 The first instalment of his memoir on this last question, that dealing 

 with the Ammonoidea, was brought before the Linnean Society of 

 London in 1 898, and appeared in their Transactions. This important 

 communication was very highly esteemed, and led, in conjunction 

 with his other work, to the award by the Geological Society in 1900 

 of a moiety of the Barlow-Jameson Fund. The second part of the 

 memoir, that treating of the Nautiloidea, was practically complete at 

 the time of his death, and it is hoped that, with other of his literary 

 remains, this may yet be published. Indeed, it would have appeared 

 before had it not been for the meticulous care he bestowed on all his 

 writings, which led him to withhold them from publication until 



