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Baron Eichthofen died on October 6th in his 73r3 year. His loss 

 will be felt wherever the sciences of geology and geography are 

 cultivated. 



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Eetiremknt of Mr. Hugh J. Llewellyn Beadnell, F.G-S. 



We regret to announce that Mr. Beadnell, who for nine years 

 fcias been connected with the Geological Survey of Egypt, has 

 just retired to take up other work in Egypt. He went direct from 

 the Royal College of Science to Egypt when the Geological Survey 

 of that country was established in 1896. In the Winter of 1896-7 

 he mapped various portions of the Nile Valley between Minia and 

 Esna, and paid a flying visit to the extensive salt deposits in the 

 Eastern Desert between Assiut and the Red Sea. The following 

 Summer he took up the Abu Roash district, which had been described 

 by Walther and Schweinfurth as a Cretaceous complex separated 

 by faults from the surrounding Eocene : Mr. Beadnell's detailed 

 examination showed, however, that the junction throughout was in 

 reality an unconformable one, the faults being entirely within the 

 Cretaceous beds. The following year the examination of the Libyan 

 Desert oases was taken up, Baharia (western portion), Farafra, 

 and Dakhla oases falling to his share. The most important results 

 of this season's work included the discovery of Cenomanian beds in 

 Baharia and extensive phosphatic deposits in Dakhla. The uncon- 

 formity between Cretaceous and Eocene, found the previous Summer 

 in Abu Roash, was proved to extend to Baharia. 



In 1898 he commenced the examination of the Fayiim, though 

 the work was temporarily suspended to complete parts of the Nile 

 Valley further south. In 1901-4 work was continued at intervals in 

 the Fayiim, and systematic excavations for fossil vertebrate remains 

 were undertaken. During part of this time Dr. Andrews, of the 

 British Museum (Natural History), was associated with Mr. Beadnell 

 or encamped within a short distance, and their united labours 

 resulted in the bringing to light nearly forty new genera and species 

 of mammals and reptiles described and determined by Dr. Andrews. 

 A very large collection of the remains of these animals is now 

 exhibited in the Cairo Geological Museum, while a second repre- 

 sentative collection has found a home in the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



Among other districts Mr. Beadnell carried out topographical and 

 geological work in Mogara, Wadi Natrun, Kharga Oasis, and the 

 Nile Valley between Esna and Aswan. 



On the Egyptian Geological Survey the work is by no means 

 confined to geology, and geologists have to personally carry out a large 

 part of the purely topographical work. He has been three times 

 to the Sudan, spending altogether nearly a year in taking discharges 

 on the White and Blue Niles and the Atbara River for the Egyptian 

 Irrigation Department. He has on two occasions during the Summer 

 months also been in charge of a section of the Revenue Survey. 



