48 Obituary— C. Bird, KG. 8. ; W. H. Wiles, LL.D. 



hypothesis, that there was any hodily elevation of the ice-sheet on 

 the slopes of Moel Tryfaen or the other hills on which the shelly 

 drift occurs. 



T. Crook. 



OBITUARY. 



CHARLES BIRD : B.A., F.G.S. 

 Born January 20, 1843. Died April 11, 1910. 



Me. Charles Bird, whose death took place in April last at Strood, 

 had heen for thirty years Head Master of the Mathematical School in 

 Rochester. At an earlier period, after graduating at the University 

 of London, he was appointed Second Master at the Bradford Grammar 

 School. There he took considerable interest in geology, and 

 communicated to the Proceedings of the Geological Society of the 

 West Riding (1875) a paper " On the Bed Beds at the Base of the 

 Carboniferous Limestone in the North-West of England". In 1881 

 he published A Short Sketch of the Geology of Yorkshire. During his 

 long residence at and near Rochester he devoted much attention to 

 the local geology, the fruits of which were published in the Rochester 

 Naturalist from 1883, in papers on the Med way muds, the North 

 Downs, and the Water Supply of Hoo. He likewise assisted in 

 conducting excursions of the Geologists' Association to Burham, 

 Aylesford, Frindsbury, and LJpnor. He was President of the 

 Rochester Naturalists' Society during four years between 1883 and 

 1899, and was author of '"a work on Elementary Geology published in 

 1890 and of Advanced Geology issued a few years ago. 



WILLIAM HARMON NILES, LL.D. 

 Born May 18, 1838. Died September 13, 1910. 



Mr. W. H. Niles, who had studied under Louis Agassiz, was 

 professor of geology and geography at the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology from 1871 to 1902, president of the Boston Natural 

 History Society from 1892 to 1897, and had been head of the 

 department of geology at Wellesley College since 1888. 



nvrisoiE n.iL,^.3srE ous. 



University of Brussels. — Mons. Maurice Leriche, who has up to 

 the present been " Maitre de Conferences" at Lille University, has 

 been appointed Professor of Geology at the University of Brussels. 

 He has lately issued in the Memoirs of the Royal Natural History 

 Museum of Belgium an important monograph, " Les Poissons Oligocenes 

 de la Belgique." Professor Dollo remains at the University as 

 Professor of Palaeontology, and will still continue Conservator of 

 the Department of Vertebrates, Living and Fossil, of the Brussels 

 Museum. 



University of Oxford. — Dr. Arthur Vaughan has been appointed 

 lecturer in geology at the University of Oxford. 



