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of his experience as counsellor or juryman, from the Great Exhibition, 
in 1851 to the Franco-British in 1908, on whose metallurgical section 
he wrote two excellent monographs, published by the Iron and Steel 
Institute. 
Mr. Bauerman was elected a Fellow in 1863, and for nearly twenty 
years served on the Council of the Geological Society (from 1874 to 
1898); he also filled the office of Vice-President. He was a most 
valuable referee on all scientific papers, and, like the late Professor 
Morris, his knowledge was encyclopzdic both of men and subjects. 
Bauerman’s information was by no means confined to his own 
particular subjects, but extended over many sciences and arts. His 
interest in crystallography became an absorbing pursuit; and he found 
no greater delight than, with no appliances beyond an old envelope, 
picked out of the waste-paper basket, he would simply by deft folding, 
accompanied always by constant puffing and blowing, and many 
a joyful chuckle, develop some extraordinary figure in solid geometry. 
Professor Bauerman was a member of many scientific societies both 
at home and abroad. He was elected an honorary member of the 
Chemical, the Metallurgical, the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 
and the Iron and Steel Institute. He was an associate member of the 
Institution of Civil Engineers, as an F.G.S. he for many years filled 
the office of Treasurer to the Geological Club, and was an associate of 
the Royal School of Mines. He received the Howard Prize from the 
Institution of Civil Engineers in 1897, and in 1906 was awarded the 
gold medal of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. 
He was a perfect master of three languages, and being of an 
amiable disposition he always proved a most agreeable and interesting 
travelling companion, full of keen humour and geniality, so that 
throughout his life he attracted a large circle of warmly attached and 
admiring friends. 
Professor Bauerman had been seriously ill for about ten weeks, but 
the immediate cause of his death, which took place peacefully on the 
morning of December 5, was heart failure. (See notices in the 
Engineer, the Mining Journal, Iron and Steel Institute, and Nature.) 
MISCHLILUAN HOUS. 
Mr. O. T. Jonus, M.A., B.Sc., of the Geological Survey of England 
and Wales, has been appointed Lecturer in Geology and Physical 
Geography in University College, Aberystwyth. 
Mr. H. J. Seymour, B.A., of the Geological Survey of Ireland, has 
been appointed Professor of Geology in University College, Dublin. 
Museum Dxsrroyep By Fire.—The public library and museum at 
Kilmarnock has been destroyed by fire. The building, known as the 
Dick Institute, was presented to the town by the late Mr. James Dick, 
of Glasgow, about nine years ago. The museum contained the 
geological collection of the late Mr. James Thompson, F.G.S., the 
destruction of which is much to be deplored.—Zimes (weekly ed.), 
December 3, 1909. 
