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in the same way as the Neozoic into two periods : (a) the Protozoic 

 or Proterozoic {Gr. protos, first), including the Cambrian, Ordovician, 

 and Silurian ; and (b) the Deutozoic or Deiiterozoic (Gr. deuteros^ 

 second), embracing the Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian." 



Curiously, however, in the late Professor Giimbel's " Grundziig© 

 der Geologic," which came out in parts (and the full volume in 

 1888), on pp. 527-529 the transition series is placed in the following 

 three subdivisions : — 



L Cambrische or Proterozen System (Paradoxides period). 

 IT. Silur or Deuterozen System (Graptoliten period). 



III. Devon or Tritozen System. 



I think Giimbel's employment of these terms must have been 

 published before the 12th edition of Page's Text-book, though 

 Lapworth may not have seen them, and he has given an altogether 

 different signification to his Proterozoic and Deuterozoic to what 

 Giimbel has done. F.G.S. 



OBITTJ-A.I^■y. 



HENRY PALIN GURNEY, M.A., Hon. D.C.L., F.G.S., etc 



BoKN September 7, 1847. Died August 14, 1904. 



Henry Palin Gurney, eldest son of Henry Gurney and Eleanor 

 Palin, was born in London on September 7th, 1847. He received 

 his early education at the City of London School, proceeding 

 afterwards to Clare College, Cambridge. There he distinguished 

 himself both in Athletics and the Schools : he rowed in the college 

 boat and ran for his university in the Oxford and Cambridge Sports 

 of 1868 and 1869 ; he took both the Mathematical and Natural 

 Science Triposes in the year 1870, being placed fourteenth wrangler 

 in the former and in the first class in the latter; immediately 

 afterwards he was elected to a college fellowship, which he held 

 till 1883. In 1871 Mr. Gurney took orders in the Church of 

 England, and for the next four years worked as curate to Canon 

 Beck in one of the largest and poorest of London parishes, that 

 of Eotherhithe ; in the early part of that period he was married 

 at Whitchurch, in Herefordshire, to Louisa, daughter of the 

 Eev. H. Selby Hele, of Grays, Essex, and great-granddaughter of 

 Bishop Home. 



Mr. Gurney's innate love of crystals had been developed under 

 the influence of the Cambridge Professor, William Hallows Miller, 

 during whose illness he later acted for some time as Deputy. 

 Appreciating the difficulties which at that epoch presented themselves 

 to English students, Mr. Gurney wrote a very simple and useful 

 Manual of Crystallography (128 pages), founded on the Tract of 

 Professor Miller and the Lectures of Professor Story-Maskelyne ; 

 it was published iu 1875 by the Society for Promoting Christian 



