Obituary — Rev. R. Ashington Biillen. 525 



He attributes all the flinty chalk seen to the west of the bluff in 

 Branscombe West Cliff, described on p. 25, to the Rhynclionella 

 Cuvieri-ohalk, except for the tops of the first two or three bluffs. 

 The latter are easily recognizable and all lie well to the east of the 

 ' Camp ' on Berry Cliff. But in the south-west face of the ' Camp ', 

 about 20 yards east of the cart track leading into the undercliff, 

 there is a bluff quite 25 feet high accessible from top to bottom and 

 composed exclusively of normal (flinty) Terehratulina gracilis-chsiik, 

 and there are four similar bluffs, first one by itself, and then three 

 close together, in the cliff some way further west. Again, just east 

 of the fence which runs down the cliff under Littlecombe Hollow 

 there is a bluff which is prohably continuous with two small 

 exposures a few feet eastwards of it, the higher of which is composed 

 of normal T. gracilis-chdl^. The estimate of 60 feet of flinty 

 R. Cuvieri-chdXk, if based on the assignment to that zone of all the 

 flinty chalk seen heyond Littlecombe Hollow, may therefore be 

 excessive. 



These exposures of T. gracilis-c\va\k are not expressly mentioned 

 in the very full official account of these cliffs given in The Cretaceous 

 Rocks of Britain, but it may be intended to cover them. 



Incidentally I may add that the very curious Metopaster cornutus 

 occurs in the flintless as well as in the flinty R. Cuvieri-Q:h.dl]s., 

 though the reverse might have heen expected. 



E. M. Betdone. 

 27 TwYFOED Mansions, Maeylebone Steeet, W. 

 October 9, 1912. 



OBITTJ.A-I?,-5r. 



THE REV. ROBERT ASHINGTON BULLEN, 



B.A. (LOND.), F.L.S., F.G.S., etc.^ 



BOEN June 11, 1850. Died August 14, 1912. 



(WITH A POKTEAIT, PLATE XXIV.) 



It is with sad regret we record the loss of our valued friend 

 Mr. Ashington Bullen, who passed away suddenly on August 14, 

 1912, in his 63rd year. 



Born at St, George's, Bermuda, on June 11, 1850, he had but 

 a short acquaintance with his birthplace, his parents returning to 

 England with their children when he was only 6 years of age. 

 That he retained a love for his birthplace is shown by his making 

 a special expedition to the Bermudas and subsequently publishing a 

 very interesting account of the geology of the group (see Geol. Mag., 

 1911, pp. 385-95 and 433-42), very fully illustrated. 



E. A. Bullen settled with his parents on the south coast and was sent 

 to a private school at Gosport, where he received his early education, 



^ Mr. BuUen's death was recorded m the September Number of the Geol. 

 Mag., p. 432. 



