Obituary — George Jennings Hinde. 235 



was completed between 1881 and 1883, and forms au important work 

 of reference, admirably illustrated by Miss Suft and Mrs. Herscliell 

 (4to ; pp. viii + 248, with 38 plates). 



After the death of my colleague Professor John Morris, in 1885, 

 Dr. Hinde became an Assistant Editor of the Geological Magazine, 

 an office he held for thirty-two j-ears to the great advantage of this 

 journal, to which he also contributed numerous articles. 



He joined the Palseontographical Society in 1886 and commenced 

 a monograph on the British Fossil Sponges, completed in 1912. 

 He also contributed witli Professor T. E,upert Jones, r.E,.S., 

 a monograph on Cretaceous Entomostraca (1889-90). Dr. Hinde 

 was elected on the Council in 1897, and Treasurer in 1904, an 

 office he held for ten years. On retiring from it he was made 

 a Vice-President in succession to Sir A. Geikie (1916). 



During the meeting of the International Geological Congress in 

 London in 1887, Dr. Hinde rendered important services on the 

 Committee by preparing a temporary museum in the Library of the 

 London University, and also by his knowledge of languages in 

 acting as geological guide and interpreter to the numerous dis- 

 tinguished foreigners present, to many of whom he was already 

 personally known during his extensive travels. 



When the bye-laws of the Geological Society underwent revision 

 in 1889, the question of the admission of women as "Fellows" came 

 up for discussi-on. Dr. Hinde took a very active part in its support ; 

 but although Sir Joseph Prestwich and many others maintained that 

 the time had come when, women having proved by their work their 

 eligibility for Fellowship, the privileges of the Society should be 

 extended to them, the proposal was defeated by a majority of four 

 out of sixty-two Fellows voting.^ 



Dr. Hinde spent many years in active field-work, followed by 

 strenuous work in the laboratory in the preparation of rock-sections 

 for the microscope, and then, after much study of existing literature, 

 came a steadj- flow of scientific papers, continued for nearly forty 

 years. 



In addition to the two important monographs on Fossil Sponges 

 already referred to, the subjoined list shows some twenty additional 

 separate papers on that class of organisms. 



That on the Receptaculitidse (including /sc/;ffi/^(?.?, Splmrospovgia, 

 Acanthocotu'a, and ReceptaaiUtes) from the. Silurian and Devonian 

 strata of England, Belgium, Silesia, Bohemia, Gotland, Canada, and 

 the United States, is an admirable piece of patient investigation 

 in solving the nature of an obscure group of fossil organisms long in 

 dispute. Hinde proved them to belong to a genus of siliceous 

 Hexactinellid sponges, of which he defined their relations and figured 

 their structures with elaborate detail (see Q.J.G.S., 1884). 



Another example of careful and laborious work is his memoir 

 on the PorospJmra, a group of small but very abundant globular 



' The author of this memoir, when President in 1895, discussed the same 

 subject ; but although strongly advocated by many of the Fellows it still 

 remains in abeyance. 



