432 Obituary— Wiiliam Hellier Baily. 
devoted to Paleontology, and most of the fossils which he described, 
and those which illustrated his works, were drawn on wood or stone 
by his skilful hand. 
Mr. Baily was born at Bristol on July 7th, 1819, and he inherited 
artistic talent, for both his grandfather and father, as well as his 
uncle, Edward Hodges Baily, R.A., were remarkable for their carving 
and sculpturing. He began his scientific career in 1837 as Assistant 
Curator in the Bristol Museum, resigning this post in 1844, when 
he was attached to the Geological Survey of Great Britain as 
Draughtsman. In the following year he was appointed to the staff 
as Assistant Geologist under Sir Henry De la Beche. His duties, 
however, were confined to the Museum work, and in 1854 he 
was styled Assistant Naturalist, serving for a time directly under 
Edward Forbes, and afterwards under Professor Huxley. In 1857 
he was transferred to the Irish branch of the Geological Survey, 
as Acting Paleontologist, and he retained this post till the close 
of his life. In 1868 he received the additional appointment of 
Demonstrator in Paleontology to the Royal College of Science for 
Ireland. | 
Mr. Baily was the author of many papers on paleontological and 
kindred subjects, and his labours will be best shown by the list of 
his works, which amount to 43 in number. His most important 
private work was that published in parts from 1867 to 1875, being 
Figures of Characteristic British Fossils: with descriptive remarks. 
Unfortunately, the work did not sufficiently recompense the author 
from a pecuniary point of view, and after the first volume was 
published, completing the Paleozoic portion, it was abandoned. 
In 1867 he received the proceeds of the Wollaston Donation-fund, 
awarded by the Geological Society of London, in aid of this work. 
His official labours comprised Paleeontological Notes in the Ex- 
planatory Memoirs to the Maps of the Geological Survey of Ireland, 
and the list of these alone would be a lengthy one. 
Mr. Baily, like the late Prof. Morris, and Mr. J. W. Salter, with 
whom he was a contemporary and a fellow-worker, belonged to that 
small body of Geologists and Paleeontologists, now, alas! nearly all 
passed away, who possessed an extensive general knowledge both of 
_ rocks and fossils, and also the invaluable ability to draw, as well as 
to describe, what they saw and studied, whether in the field or in 
the cabinet. These men can never be replaced by our modern 
student-specialists. 
Personally Mr. Baily was of a genial disposition and his loss 
will long be felt by his friends and colleagues. 
Errata.—Please make the following corrections:—Gron. Mac. 
March No. p. 123, in footnote, line 2, for “Memoir” read ‘“ Meunier.” 
in May No. p. 240, line 33 from top of page, for the work which 
Mr. Lee has actually done—read “the work which we see actually 
done.” —In August Number, p. 382, line 8 from bottom, for lavas 
read laws.—Hpir. Grou. Mac. ~ 
