340 Eriiinent Living Geologists — G. W. Lamplugh. 



evidence of the high opinion held by the Director, of his qualifica- 

 tions, he was sent to survey the Isle of Man, a task in which he was 

 occupied for the greater part of the succeeding five years. The 

 results of this period are embodied in his papers to the volumes of 

 the Quarterly Journal and the Survey Memoir on the Isle of Man. 



It is not often that one geological surveyor has the pleasure and 

 satisfaction of seeing his name recorded as having written a memoir 

 entirely by himself. The late Professor J. W. Judd when on the 

 Survey many years ago claimed to have completed a whole English 

 county, that of Rutland, but Mr. Lamplugh surveyed a whole 

 island; nay, more, for was not Man a kingdom in itself up to 1765, 

 when the Duke of Athol ceded his rights as Lord of Man to the 

 Crown ; but it still has its own Parliament (the House of Keys). 

 Three-fourths of its whole area of 227 square miles (145,325 acres) 

 is probably of Upper Cambrian age, whilst borings through Glacial 

 drift have revealed a rock-floor of Triassic, Permian, and Lower 

 Carboniferous strata below sea-level. Besides its valuable mines of 

 silver-lead ore, its shell-marl and peat deposits have yielded many 

 remains of the " Gigantic Irish Deer" (including an entire skeleton 

 now set up in the Castle Rushen Museum, Isle of Man), which 

 animal Mr. Lamplugh suggested may have crossed over to Man upon 

 the ice towards the close of the Glacial period M 



A. brief leave of absence having been granted him, early in 1893 

 Mr. Lamplugh paid a flying visit to Arizona and the Pacific Coast of 

 America and had a glimpse of the Grand Carion of the Colorado. 



Four years later, having been appointed Secretary of Section C 

 (Geology), he attended the meeting of the British Association held 

 in Toronto, Canada, and he joined an excursion across the Dominion 

 to Yancouver Island under the guidance of Dr. G. M. Dawson, F.R.S., 

 an account of which he published in Nature for November, 1897. 

 In 1898 Mr. Lamplugh removed to Tonbridge to take part in the 

 mapping of the Weald in conjunction with the examination of the 

 borings and sinkings for coal then in progress in Kent (see memoir 

 with Dr. Kitchin on Kent Mesozoic Rocks, 1911). 



In 1901 the Council of the Geological Society awarded to him 

 the Bigsby Medal (the "young man's medal"). In handing it to 

 Mr. Lamplugh the President, Mr. Teall, said: "The Council feel 

 that they are placing it in safe hands. You have done much, and 

 they confidently expect that you will do more" : — a trust which has 

 since been honourably fulfilled by the recipient. 



Having been appointed "District Geologist" in 1901, Mr. Lamplugh 

 was sent to Dublin in charge of the Irish branch of the Geological 

 Survey, in which post he remained until the Survey was transferred 

 to an Irish department and placed under the supervision of 

 Professor Grenville A. J. Cole, F.R.S., in 1905. During the period 

 of his residence in Dublin Lamplugh superintended and took part in 

 the mapping of the country around Dublin, Belfast, Cork, and 

 Limerick, and issued four memoirs dealing with these areas. 



^ Another skeleton of Gervus megaceros, discovered in the Isle of Man in 

 1819, was presented to the Edinburgh Museum by the Duke of Athol. Many 

 other remains of the same deer have been met with from 1798 onwards (see 

 Geol. Surv. Mem., 1903, spp. 377-88). 



