Ohituart/— George Man; F.L.S. 143 



name, together with a deanition, to the Editor o£ the Geological 

 Magazine. These names might be combined into a single list at the 

 end of each year, or possibly published at more frequent intervals, 

 according to the discretion of the Editor. It may, perhaps, be pointed 

 out to me that, since the International Catalogue of Scientific 

 Literature has a section for Geology, that would be the proper place 

 for indexing such names. Agreed ! But all the same the suggestion 

 is not a practical one so long as that particular volume of the 

 International Catalogue is thrown together (one cannot say ' edited ') 

 on its present lines. 



These proposals are the best that occur to me at present. Should 

 they give rise to any discussion and to any better proposals, I shall be 

 glad ; but whatever be the upshot of discussion I wish to insist that it 

 is really time for something to be done. 



E. A. Bather. 



O B IT XJ.A.I?,"^'. 



GEORGE MAW, F.L.S. , F.S.A., F.G.S. 

 Born 1832. Died February 7, 1912. 



The death is announced of George Maw, at Benthall, Kenley, 

 Surrey, and formerly of Benthall Hall, Broseley, Shropshire, aged 79. 

 Mr. Maw, who for manj' years was a manufacturer of encaustic tiles 

 at Broseley, took an early interest in geology, became a Fellow of 

 the Geological Society in 1864, and a valued contributor to the 

 pages of the Geological Magazine, from the first volume in 1864 

 to 1878. 



His first communication, read before the Geological Society in 

 1864, was on the drift-deposits of the Yalley of the Severn, and it 

 was followed by one on the potter's clay of Eremington near Barn- 

 staple, a deposit which Maw was disposed to regard as of Glacial 

 age. In 1865 he described in the Geological Magazine some deposits 

 of Chert, White Sand, and White Clay, which occurred in pockets 

 iu the mountain-limestone of Llandudno. In 1867 he brought 

 before the Geological Society observations "On the Sources of the 

 Materials composing the White Clays of the Lower Tertiaries ", and 

 in the following year a paper " On the Disposition of Iron in 

 variegated Strata", illustrated by coloured plates and many diagrams 

 and analyses. This undoubtedly was his most important contribution 

 to geological science, and arrested the attention and won the warmly 

 expressed admiration of Professor Buskin, who was enchanted with 

 the beauty of coloration and variegation in arrangement and banding 

 displayed in the sections illustrating this very valuable work.^ 



In 1876 he published in the third edition of the Catalogue of 

 Specimens of British Pottery and Porcelain in the Museum of Practical 

 Geology, an instructive and practical appendix on a series of specimens 

 which he had collected in order to illustrate the Clays and Plastic 

 Strata of Great Britain. 



^ See Quart. Journ. Geol. See, vol. xxiv, pp. 351-400, pis. xi-xv, and 

 24 woodcuts, 1868. 



