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but of his predecessors in mammalian evolution, for if man belongs, 

 as lie certainly does, to the highest order of the mammalia, namely, 

 the Primates, it must be a waste of time to trj- to prove him to be 

 earlier than these his manifest ancestors. The classification of the 

 mammalia was first reviewed, and the modern distribution of the 

 higher mammals over the face of the earth examined, as a preliminary 

 to describing their fossil ancestors and geological relations. 

 A description followed of the zoogeographical areas of the earth's 

 surface, and their characteristic faunas, and it was made clear that 

 the Primates first appeared as very primitive lemurs in the Upper 

 Eocene, as in the Wasatch formation of "Wyoming, U.S.A., and in 

 Europe in the Phosphorites of the Paris Basin, as also in Switzerland, 

 and in Hampshire in this country, but that not until the Oligocene 

 of the Egyptian Fayoum is reached are any traces of the real ape 

 tribe to be found. In the Miocene they can be discerned a little 

 more plainly, but only in the Pliocene do the larger man-like apes 

 first manifest themselves. Therefore, in spite of the "Eoliths", it 

 would seem, a priori, to be very unlikely that ITomo sapiens, or his 

 immediate lineal ancestors in the Anthropoidea, will be found earlier 

 than this. 



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LIEUT. GRAHAM JOHNS, 



Scots Guards. 



Lieut. Graham Johns, Scots Guards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cosmo 

 Johns, of Sheffield, was killed in action on September 27. He 

 matriculated at Caius College, Cambridge, but did not go into 

 residence. He was severely wounded at Ypres, July, 1917, and 

 returned to the Front in March this year. 



THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP JOHN MITCHINSON, 

 D.C.L., D.D., F.G.S. 



Born September 23, 1833. Died Septejiber 25, 1918. 



We regret to record the death of Bishop Mitchinson, Master of 

 Pembroke College, Oxford, who was a lifelong student of geology 

 and a devoted friend of geologists. From 1859 until 1873 he was 

 Head Master of the King's School, Canterbury ; from 1873 until 1881 

 he was Bishop of Barbados; from 1881 until 1899 he held the 

 benefice of Sibstone, Leicestershire, and acted as deputy in much 

 episcopal work; and in 1899 he was elected Master of Pembroke. 

 While in Barbados he spent part of his leisure in making a collection 

 of fossils, which he gave to the British Museum in 1892. While at 

 home he made numerous excursions in search of fossils, and 

 eventually brought together a good representative series, whicli he 

 carefully studied and arranged in cabiuets. After reserving for 

 Oxford a few specimens, among which was the type of Olenus 

 Mitchinsoni from the Shineton Shales, described by Dr. H. H. Thomas 



