286 Obituary — William Talbot Aveline, F.G.S. 



Survey under De la Beche. He was appointed an Assistant Geologist 

 in 1840, and after working for a short time in Somerset on the 

 Mendip Hills, he was transferred to South Wales, and surveyed 

 parts of Pembrokeshire. Thence he worked through other counties 

 into North Wales, across the borders into various portions of the 

 West of England, and into the Midland counties as far as Nottingham. 



In 1867 Mr. Aveline was appointed District Surveyor to take 

 charge of the mapping of the Lake District, and he resided at 

 Kendal until his retirement in 1882, when he went to live at 

 Wrington in Somerset. 



All formations, from the very oldest up to the Eocene, came from 

 time to time under notice, but his chief work was among the Silurian 

 and older rocks. Although painstaking and accurate in his mapping, 

 he went but little beyond the actual survey of the ground. He 

 entered neither into the petrology nor palaeontology of the rocks ; 

 nor was he given to writing. The maps and sections of the 

 Geological Survey form the chief monument of his labours ; and it 

 was in recognition of these, that he was awarded the Murchison Medal 

 in 1894 by the Council of the Geological Society. His portrait will 

 be found in Sir Archibald Geikie's Memoir of Sir A. C. Eamsay (1895). 



The following is a list of his published memoirs and papers : — 

 Geological Survey Memoirs. 

 1858. " Geology of parts of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire." ("With Ramsay and 

 Hull.) 



1860. " Geology of part of Northamptonshire." 



1861. " Geology of parts of Northamptonshire and Warwickshire." 

 1861. " Geology of the country around Nottingham." 2nd ed., 1880. 



1861. " Geology of parts of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire." 2nd ed., 1879. 

 1863. " Geology of part of Leicestershire." (With Howell.) 

 1872. " Geology of the countiy around Kendal, Sedbergh, Bowness, and Tebay." 

 (With Hughes.) 2nd ed., revised by Strahan, 1888. 



1872. " Geology of the neighbourhood of Ku'kby Lonsdale and Kendal." (With 



Hughes and Tiddeman.) 



1873. " Geology of the southern part of the Furness District in North Lancashire." 

 1880. " Geology of parts of Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, and Derbyshire." 



Other Works. 

 1848. "Sketch of the Structure of parts of North and South Wales" (with 



Eamsay) : Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. iv, p. 294. 

 1854. " On the ' Caradoc Sandstone' of Shropshire" (mth Salter) : ibid., vol. x, 



p. 62. 

 1866. " The Longmynd and its Valleys " (letter) : Geol. Mag., Dec. I, Vol. Ill, 



p. 279. 

 1869. " On the Eelation of the Porphyry Series to the Skiddaw Slates in the Lake 



District" (letter): ibid., Dec. I, Vol. VI, p. 382. 

 1872. " On the Continuity and Breaks between the various Divisions of the Silm-ian 



Strata in the Lake District" : ibid., Dec. I, Vol. IX, p. 441. 

 1876. "Absence of the Llandovery Rocks in the Lake District" (letter): ibid., 



Dec. II, Vol. Ill, p. 282. 

 1876. " The Silurian Rocks of the Lake District" (letter) : ibid., p. 376. 



1876. " The Graptolitic Mudstones of the Lake District " (letter) : ibid., p. 527. 



1877. "The Magnesian Limestone and New Red Sandstone in the neighbourhood 



of Nottingham " : ibid., Dec. II, Vol. IV, p. 155. 

 1877. " The Relation of the Permian to the Trias " (letter) : ibid., p. 380. 

 1893. " The St. Bees Sandstone" (letter) : ibid., Dec. Ill, Vol. X, p. 87. 

 1899. " Geology of the country around Carlisle " (letter) : ibid., Dec. IV, Vol. VI, 



p. 335. 



