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its animal matter, thus indicating the comparatively recent period 
at which it was drifted with the other materials which now form the 
shoal of ‘No Man’s Land.’—Yours truly, W. Davies. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
aercuse 
OBITUARY NOTICE. 
Anprew GeEppEs Barn was a native of Scotland, and emigrated 
to the Cape in early life. After some time he settled at Graaf 
Reinett, where, having commenced business as a saddler, he resided 
for some years, with an occasional interlude of a trading trip into the 
Interior, during one of which he was attacked and plundered by the 
Natives, and barely escaped with life. On the breaking out of the 
Kafir War of 1833-4, he accepted the command of a provisional 
battalion, raised for the defence of the Frontier by Sir B. D’Urban, 
and did good service to his country in that capacity. Soon after his 
release from this duty, he was employed to construct a military road 
through the Ecca Pass ; and in this work he displayed engineering 
talents which earned for him the respect of the Government and 
the applause of the Colonists. His services were permanently re- 
tained by Mr. Montagu, then Secretary to the Government; and he 
had the direction of most of the roads since constructed in the Colony; 
some of them were gigantic undertakings, ably carried out. 
These works might have been fairly considered full employment 
for one head and pair of hands; but the loan of Lyell’s ‘ Elements,’ 
from a friend, turned Mr. Bain’s attention to Geology; he com- 
menced with zeal the search of the rocks; and this led to the 
discovery of the Dicynodon and numerous other fossil Reptiles in 
the Lacustrine or Karoo beds near Fort Beaufort. In a paper in the 
‘Eastern Province Magazine’ (Graham’s Town, 1857), he tells with 
great humour of the glee with which these first discoveries were 
enjoyed by himself and his friend and coadjutor, Mr. Borcherds, 
late Magistrate of Fort Beaufort. He sent many of these Reptilian 
skulls and bones home; and received the warm approbation of 
European Geologists for the sagacity with which he had assigned 
them to their proper place in the animal series, and to the rocks 
their approximate age and lacustrine origin. 
Called by his duties to the Western Province, he searched inde- 
fatigably the rich Devonian (or Upper Silurian?) deposits, and added 
many new species to their then little known fauna. 
In the Eastern Province again, in company with Dr. Atherstone, 
he examined the Sub-cretaceous beds of the Sundays and Zwartkops 
Rivers, discovered many new species, and ascertained the limits of 
the formation. But the work by which he has conferred the greatest 
benefit on Science, and on the Colony, is his Geological Map, pub- 
lished by the Geological Society of London. The industry and 
ability displayed in this work can only be appreciated by those who 
are acquainted with the scantiness of the few scattered notices which 
were all that was known of South-African Geology, and the limited 
time and opportunity he had for special geological research. 
