144 Miscellaneom. 



Many other subjects attracted the attention of Maw : thus in 1870 

 he drew attention (Geol. Mag.) to the occurrence of Rhsetic beds in 

 North Shropshire and Clieshire. 



George Maw was also a most accomplished botanist, and his great 

 monograph on the genus Crocus (with an appendix by C. Lacaita) 

 deserves special notice. In it he gives coloured figures of every species 

 from actual specimens grown and flowered at Eenthall. To obtain 

 these and to study their geographical distribution, he travelled over 

 the whole of Europe and North Africa as far as the genus extends. 

 (See his monograph of the genus Crocus, with an appendix; pp. viii, 

 326, XX, and 67 plates coloured. 4to. London, 1886.) 



In 1871 he accompanied Dr. (afterwards Sir Joseph) Hooker to 

 Morocco and the Great Atlas, and communicated the results of his 

 geological researches early in the following year to the Geological 

 Society. Two years later he made a journey from Algiers to the 

 Sahara, and the record of his observations was published by the 

 same Society. In 1886, on account of ill-health. Maw gave up his 

 business, and lived in retirement at Kenley in Surrey. 



3S^ISCElL.ILi.A.3SrE!OXJS. 



Me. a. F. Hallimond has been appointed to the assistant curator- 

 ship of the Museum of Practical Geology, in succession to Mr. W. F. P. 

 McLintock, who has been transferred to the geological department of 

 the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. — Nature, January 4, 1912. 



BoLiTHO Medal. — We learn from Nature that the Royal Geological 

 Society of Cornwall at its annual meeting on October 31 presented 

 the Bolitho gold medal to Mr. Clement Reid, F.R.S., in recognition 

 of the able and conscientious manner in which he had superintended, 

 during the past ten years, the geological resurvey of the county. 



Last year's Medal was presented to Dr. G. J. Hinde, F.R.S., for 

 his important researches in the palaeontology of the Older Rocks of 

 Cornwall. 



Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. — The presentation of the testimonial 

 to Mr. Henry Keeping on his retirement from the post of Curator of 

 the Geological Museum, Cambridge, took place in the Sedgwick 

 Museum on Saturday, December 2. In handing Mr. Keeping the 

 purse for £75 Is. &d. with the list of subscribers. Professor T. McK. 

 Hughes referred to the valuable services which Mr. Keeping had 

 rendered to the geological department during the fifty years which he 

 had spent at Cambridge, commencing under Professor Sedgwick. His 

 skill and energy in collecting fossils had been remarkable, and the 

 material he had brought together, especially from the Tertiary beds, 

 had greatly enriched the Museum. Mr. Keeping, in returning thanks, 

 expressed his deep appreciation of this recognition of his work by old 

 friends and students from all parts of the world, and gave some 

 interesting reminiscences of the condition and size of tlie collections 

 in the old Woodwardian Museum when he first entered upon his 

 duties as Curator. 



