234 Obituary — George Jennings Hinde. 



a visit to the British Museum, and from my wife's relationship to 

 his family he claimed me as a " cousin", and so we continued to the 

 end. This visit to the "Geological Department" seems to have acted 

 as a loadstone which attracted him to the Museum in later years. 

 He particularly mentions in his diary the impression made upon 

 him by our geological talk. 



In the autumn of that year he gave up his farm and sailed for 

 Buenos Aires, and took up sheep farming ; but save for a note in his 

 diary of a geological walking tour, he does not appear to have had 

 much spare time for scientific pursuits in South America. After 

 some years ranching in Argentina Hinde returned home, hut very 

 soon after set out for ]S"orth America, where he devoted seven years 

 entirely to geological research, during which time his travels 

 extended from Nova Scotia on the east to Nebraska on the west, 

 and from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico. 



For a time he settled in Canada, entering himself as a student in 

 geology under Professor H. Alleyne Nicholson, F.R.S., in Toronto 

 University, with whom he published his first paper in 1875, " On 

 the Fossils of the Clinton, Niagara, and Guelph Formations of 

 Ontario" {Canadian Journal, xiv). He also wrote papers on "The 

 Glacial and Interglacial Strata of Scarboro' Heights, Ontario " and 

 " On the Occurrence of Boulders of the Calciferous Formation 

 near Toronto ". Later on he made the interesting discovery of 

 " Conodonts " and Annelid jaws in the Cambro-Silurian of Canada 

 and the United States. 



lleturning to England in 1874, he was elected a Fellow of the 

 Geological Society of London. 



He also pursued his search for Conodonts and Annelid jaws in the 

 Silurian strata of the West of England and the Sub- Carboniferous rocks 

 of Scotland ; he found these in many localities identical with those 

 he had obtained in North America, which he subsequently figured 

 and described in the Quarterly Journal for 1879, 1880, and 1882. 



This work and the renewal of his earh' study of the Chalk Sponges 

 occupied hijn until 1878, when he visited Sweden, Gotland, and 

 Denmark and travelled across Europe to Palestine. 



During 1879-80 he studied under Professor Karl von Zittel in the 

 University of Munich, and upon receiving the degree of "Doctor of 

 Philosophy" he presented for his inaugui-al dissertation a paper on 

 the " Fossil Sponge-spicules found in a flint from the Upper Chalk 

 at Horstead in Norfolk " (Munich, 1880). 



Dr. George Hinde was married in 1881 to Edith Octavia, daughter 

 of James Clark, of Street, Somerset, of the Society of Friends. 



In February, 1882, he was awarded the Wollaston Fund for his 

 researches in fossil Invertebrata of North America and the Glacial 

 phenomena of Canada. He was also elected a Member of Council of 

 the Geological Society, on which he served for nearly twenty years, 

 being made a Vice-President in 1893. 



After the removal of the Geological Collections from the British 

 Museum at Bloomsbury to the new Natural History Museum in 

 Cromwell Boad, the Trustees authorized Dr. Hinde to prepare a 

 Catalogue of the Fossil Sponges in the Geological Department. This 



