144 Miscellaneous. 
were described by the late J. W. Salter! and in a monograph by 
Professor Huxley & J. W. Salter*; the specimens figured are preserved 
in the Museum of Geology, Jermyn Street. The British Museum 
next received specimens from Mr. Slimon, and Dr. Henry Woodward 
entered upon their description ;* a task which occupied him during 
intervals for more than fifteen years. Subsequently, in conjunction 
with Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., Dr. Henry Woodward 
prepared a monograph on the genus Ceratiocaris and other forms of 
Phyllocarida, many of which had been discovered by Mr. Slimon.* 
Dr. Slimon, to whose energy and ability as a field-geologist and 
naturalist we owe so much, died at Lesmahagow, October 12, 1882, 
in his eightieth year. 
In October last Dr. Slimon’s sons and daughter presented the whole 
of their father’s private collection, which he had added to up to his 
death, and which numbered over 5000 specimens, to the Kelvingrove 
Museum in Glasgow, where it will serve as a lasting memorial of 
Mr. Slimon’s: lifework. It may be interesting to learn that the 
shales containing these most coveted fossil-remains present their 
fissile edges vertically to the geologist, and are only to be met with in 
the beds and banks of the Nethan and Logan Waters and their 
tributary rivers. Here, standing knee-deep in clear cold water, 
Mr. Slimon and his sous spent many long days extracting their 
treasured fossils from their watery home in the river’s rocky bed. 
The story of Mr. Slimon’s great discovery is interesting. He was 
bound for Logan Water House, situated almost at the source of the 
Logan Water, to perform a very common though urgent medical duty, 
when his eye was suddenly arrested by a dark object in the rocks 
beneath the waters of the stream. Proceeding to obtain possession of 
it, he became entirely oblivious to the existence of such a thing as 
a patient, and it was not till something like ten hours had elapsed 
that he was suddenly recalled to the mission upon which he was bent, 
which was accomplished on the following morning. From the time 
when he first discovered the fossils up till his death, a period of over fifty 
years, Dr. Slimon was continually accumulating the vast collection, 
the great bulk of which has now found its final resting-place in 
Kelvingrove Museum.® But many fine and beautiful examples 
(mostly figured types) are fortunately to be seen in the British 
Museum of Natural History, Cromwell Road, and in the Museum 
of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, London; also in the Edinburgh 
Museum, where they have been described and figured by Professor 
Dr. Malcolm Laurie, F.R.S.E., of St. Mungo’s College, Glasgow. 
1 Cf. Q.J.G.S., 1859, vol. xv, pp. 229-386, pl. x. 
2 T. H. Huxley & J. W. Salter, Mon. I, Mem. Geol. Survey, 1859, Svo, pp. 105, 
with 16 folio plates. 
3 See Intellectual Observer, 1863, vol. iv, p. 229, and pl.i; Guox. Maa., 1864, 
Vol. I, p..107, Pl. V; 1865, pp. 196 and 239, Pl. X; Brit. Assoc. Reports 
(Sect. C), 1865, Q.J.G.S., vol. xxi, p. 482, pls. xiii and xiv; Mon. Pal. Soc., 
Merostomata, 1865-78, pp. 1-263, pls. 1-xxxvi. 
4 See Mon. Pal. Soc., Paleozoic Phyllopoda, 1887-99, pp. 211, pls. i-xxxi. 
5 Under the care of that indefatigable Scotch geologist and naturalist, Peter 
Macnair, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., the Curator of the Natural History Collections. 
