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marvels, and these certainly attracted much attention to geology. 
Now they are no longer so, and from my experience, and it is not a 
small one, they and their nomenclature do much to restrict a know- 
ledge of the great teachings of geology to the limited circle to which 
your reviewer so justly refers. J. Logan Lospiey. 
City or Lonpon COLLEGE, 
July 16th, 1888. 
IMEES Grn, AGN EROmsn 
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ENGLAND AND WALES. 
We are informed that Mr. H. W. Bristow, F.R.S.; has retired 
from the Directorship of the Geological Survey of England and 
Wales, after a lengthened service of forty-six years. Joining the 
staff of the Survey in 1842, under De la Beche, he commenced 
field-work in the Silurian regions of Radnorshire, and subsequently 
surveyed large areas of the Secondary and Tertiary strata, more 
especially in Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, and 
Sussex. This work has formed the basis for all later and more 
minute observations on the strata. The history of the Survey with 
which Mr. Bristow has been so long associated has been told in 
part in the Memoirs of Edward Forbes and Murchison by the 
present Director-General, and also in the Letters of Jukes ; and it is 
pleasant to read of the early labours of the small yet enthusiastic 
band of geologists, who numbered only 10 in 1844; but these 
included Ramsay, Warington Smyth, John Phillips, Aveline, W. H. 
Baily, and Edward Forbes. In the genial company of Forbes, Mr. 
Bristow carried on much of his detailed work in the Isles of Wight 
and Purbeck ; and we understand that a new edition of Mr. Bristow’s 
Memoir on the Isle of Wight will shortly be published. Until 1872, 
when he was appointed Director, Mr. Bristow was more or less 
actively employed in the field, devoting especial attention in these 
later years to the Rhetic or Penarth Beds—the latter name being 
given by him on account of the prominent exposures of these strata 
on the Glamorganshire coast. 
We learn that Mr. H. H. Howell, F.G.S., Director of the Geological 
Survey of Scotland, now undertakes the additional duties of Director 
for England and Wales, and his excellent geological work in the 
Midland counties, the North of England, and the South of Scotland, 
together with his well-known administrative capacity, will cause the 
appointment to be hailed with satisfaction. 
We have also much pleasure in announcing that Mr. J. J. H. 
Teall, M.A., F.G.S., has recently joined the staff, and is specially 
charged with the study of the crystalline schists and the problems 
of regional metamorphism. 
