44 Obituary— Robert Etheridge, F.R.S. L. ^ E., F.G.S. 



When President, Mr, Etheridge delivered two most valuable 

 addresses to the Geological Society of London, that in 1881 " On the 

 Distribution of British Palaeozoic Fossils," and in 1882 "On the 

 Distribution of British Jurassic Fossils." 



His other papers include descriptions of British Oolitic and 

 Liassic Mollnsca (1863) ; Jurassic Fossils of the Himalayas (1864) ; 

 the Ehjetic beds and sections (1865-66) ; Geology of the Bristol 

 Coal-Basin (1866) ; the Stratigraphical position of Irish Laby- 

 rinthodonts (1866-67) ; the Geological position of the Bristol 

 Conglomerate (1870) ; a new species of Echinoid from North 

 Africa (1872) ; the Geology of the Watchet Area (1873) ; a Table 

 of British Fossils, in Lyell (1874) ; Fossil Plants from Kosloo, 

 Black Sea (1877) ; some New Tertiary Mollusca from Brazil 

 (1879) ; on Lepidotus maximiis (1889). 



Probably the most important of Mr. Etheridge's labours has been 

 the preparation of a Catalogue of the Fossils of the British Isles, 

 stratigraphically and zoologically arranged — published by the 

 Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1888 (4to, pp. 468) — of which it is to be 

 regretted that only vol. i, comprising the PalEeozoic fossils, has ever 

 appeared, vols, ii and iii being still in manuscript, although com- 

 pleted up to 1888. In this woi'k the author has catalogued 18,000 

 species of fossils. 



Mr, Etheridge was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of 

 London in 1854, and served on the Council from 1863 to 1868, 

 from 1872 to 1878, and from 1880 to 1883, He was elected 

 President in 1880, and held the office until February, 1882. He 

 received the Award of the Wollaston Fund from the Geological 

 Society in 1871, and the Murchison Medal and Fund in 1880. 



Mr. Etheridge was President of Section C (Geology) at the Meeting 

 of the British Association, Southampton, 1882. 



He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1855, 

 and of the Royal Society, London, in 1871, and served on the 

 ■Council of the latter Society in 1884. 



In 1890 he w^as elected an Honorary Fellow of King's College, 

 London, 



He has served on the Council of the Pala9ontographical Society 

 for many years, and was made Treasurer in 1880, an office he 

 retained np to the time of his death. 



On the 20th October, 1881, Mr, Etheridge's services were trans- 

 ferred, with the sanction of the Treasury, from the Geological 

 Survey and Museum to the British Museum (Natural History), 

 where, in association with his friend Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., 

 the Keeper of the Department of Geology, he occupied the post of 

 Assistant Keeper for ten years. One of the most interesting pieces 

 of work which Mr. Etheridge accomplished was the preparation of 

 a Stratigraphical Collection to illustrate by sections, maps, and 

 specimens all the British sedimentary rocks. This is exhibited 

 in Gallery XI, and is much valued by students of geology. 



Mr. Etheridge was always distinguished by his courtesy and his 

 readiness to impart scientific information to students and the public 



