Obituary— Hilary Bauerman. 47 
early days we are not informed, but in 1851, at the age of 18, he 
became a student at ‘“‘the Government School of Mines and of Science 
applied to the Arts”, Jermyn Street, where he had the advantage of 
studying under Playfair, Ramsay, Forbes, Warington Smyth, Hunt, 
and Percy. It was specially due to the personal influence exercised 
by Dr. Percy and Sir Warington Smyth over the early students of the 
school that so many high classmen, like Bauerman, the Blanfords, 
F. Drew, Tookey, Sir C. Le Neve Foster, and many others, went 
forth to achieve high geological distinction in the world. From 
Jermyn Street Bauerman proceeded, in 1853, to the Freiberg Mining 
Academy, whence, after three years further study, he returned to 
England, and in 1856 accepted the post of an Assistant Geologist 
on the Geological Survey of Great Britain. But after three years 
work at home he was selected as geologist to the North American 
Boundary Commission, and during nearly six years he was occupied in 
most arduous survey work in Canada and the United States, including 
the delimitation of the Hudson Bay territory. Between 1863 and 
1888 he was busily engaged in Government and .professional work, 
mining and metallurgical surveys, and explorations abroad in almost 
every part of the world, save Australia and New Zealand. In 1883 
he was appointed lecturer on metallurgy at Firth College, Sheffield, 
and still earlier (1874-9) was joint examiner in mining and mineralogy 
for the Science and Art Department. 
His last official appointment (in 1886) was that of Professor of 
Metallurgy to the Ordnance College, Woolwich, from which he only 
retired in 1906, after some twenty years service. As a teacher, 
Professor Bauerman was particularly successful both with the cadets 
at Woolwich, who admired and revered him, and with the practical 
miners and metallurgists, including his workmen-students at the 
Firth College, Sheffield, and elsewhere, many of whom afterwards 
became his personal friends. 
In addition to important papers read before learned and technical 
societies Professor Bauerman was the author of textbooks on Descriptive 
Mineralogy and on Systematic Mineralogy. But his name is best known 
perhaps in connexion with his classical work on the Metallurgy of Iron, 
and with the treatise on Metallurgy by Phillips & Bauerman. He was 
for many years a valued contributor to the columns of the Hngineer, 
the ining Journal, and other papers. 
His extensive knowledge of chemical, mineralogical, and metal- 
lurgical subjects, and his experience as a teacher, led to his selection 
for the office of examiner for many years to the Civil Service 
Commissioners for the appointment of Mine Inspectors, to the 
Science and Art Department and the Board of Education in mining 
and metallurgy, and for a time in mineralogy also. He was likewise 
examiner of mining students to the Royal School of Mines and the 
Camborne School of Mines. 
Few of the congresses at home or abroad passed without his 
presence. He was a member of the Metallurgical Committee of the 
Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry held in London 
this year, and president of a section of the Sixth Congress held in 
Rome, 1906; and most of our International Exhibitions had the benefit 
