96 Miscellaneous. 



Is/IISOE LL^^lSTE O TJS. 



Jubilee of a Government Geologist. 

 Mr. B,. Bulleii Newton, F.G.S., of the Geological Department, 

 Eritisli Museum (Natural History), has just completed fifty years 

 active Government service. During the earlier part of his official 

 career, which commenced on Januarj' 6, 1868, Mr. Newton -was one 

 of the Assistant Naturalists of the Geological Survey under the late 

 Professor Huxley. He was transferred to the British Museum in 

 August, 1880, at the time of the removal of the Natural History 

 Collections to Cromwell Boad, in which he took an active part. His 

 numerous published researches on various branches of puljeontology, 

 especially the Mollusca and Foraminifera, have had a distinct 

 bearing on the geology of wideh' scattered regions. He has been 

 President of the Malacological Society of London and of the Concho- 

 logical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. We offer Mr. Newton 

 our congratulations on his extended and valuable scientific labours. 



F. W. BuDLER, I.S.O., F.G.S. (1840-1915). 



Our readers will remember that in the summer of 1915 the 

 University College of "Wales, Aberystwyth, became the possessors 

 of the library and lifelong collections of the late F. W. Budler, 

 who was Professor and Dean of the College in the years 1876-80, 

 and subsequently Curator of the Museum of Practical Geology, 

 Jermyn Street, London.^ 



His library, consisting of some 2,000 volumes and 4,000 pamphlets, 

 has been tabulated and cross-indexed, and his extensive collection of 

 rocks, fossils, etc., carefully labelled. The Mineralogical Collection 

 has been made available for teacliing and demonstration purposes, 

 while the archaeological and other specimens have been added to the 

 College Museum. The additions thus made to the College, further 

 assisted by the foundation of the "F. W. Budler Geological Besearch 

 Scholarship ", have greatly increased the facilities for students, 

 particularly in the subject of geology. 



Monsieur Jules Bernaerts, the eminent Belgian sculptor (of the 

 Boyal Academy of Brussels), has executed a life-size medallion of 

 Professor Budler, which has been framed in oak and placed in the 

 wall of the College Quadrangle, and below it a brass tablet (executed 

 by Messrs. G. Maile & Son, of Euston Boad, London), bearing the 

 inscription, "In memory of F. W. Budler, I.S.O., F.G.S., 1840- 

 1915. Professor in tliis College 1876-80, and Founder of the College 

 Museum," has been affixed to a polished slab of Welsh marble 

 specially cut for the purpose from the Narberth Quarries. 



Professor Budler's numerous friends and all concerned in the 

 welfare of the College will be pleased to know that the collections 

 which he formed with so much ability have thus been made available 

 for the furtherance of those studies in which he was so deeply 

 interested and to which he devoted the labours of a lifetime. On 

 behalf of the College. — S. G. Budler, one of the Governors. 



The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 

 January 7, 1918. 

 ^ For obituary and portrait see Geol. Mag., 1915, pp. 142-4. 



