46 Ohituavy— Robert Ether Idge, F.R.8. L. 8^ E., F.G.8. 



He was also engaged to prepare Maps and Sections, and to give 

 evidence before the "Eoval Cominissit)n on Coal" (13th March, 

 1868) in relation to the Somersetshire Coalfield, and especially in 

 reference to the probability of finding coal under the Permian, New 

 Red Sandstone, and other superincumbent strata. [See Report of 

 tbe Eoyal Commission on Coal, vol. i, pp. 419-422 (D. 7-10), 

 folio; 1871.] 



He leaves an only son, Mr. Robert Etheridge, jnn., who has 

 occupied the post of Curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney, 

 N.S.W., since 1887, and was from 1879 to 1887 an Assistant 

 under Dr. H. Woodward, F.R.S., in the British Natural History 

 Museum, London, and previously on the Geological Survey of 

 Scotland, with Sir A. Geikie, F.R.S. Like his father, Mr. Robert 

 Etheridge, jun., is a distinguished palaeontologist and geologist, and 

 commenced his career as one of the staff of the Geological Survey 

 of Victoria, Australia, under tlie late Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn, F.R.S. 



Among his other literary labours it may be mentioned that 

 Mr. Etheridge greatly assisted Dr. J. J. Bigsby, F.R.S., F.G.S., in the 

 preparation of his great works (see author's prefaces to works) — 

 (a) "Thesaurus Siluricus." 1868, 4to, pp. 268; (6) "Thesaurus 

 Devonico-Carboniferus," 4to, 1878, pp. 450. He edited the third 

 edition of Part i of " Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire," 4to, 

 1875, pp. X and 354, by Professor John Phillips, F.R.S., who died 

 24th April, 1874. He also assisted Mr. J. W. Lowry to construct 

 liis Chart of Characteristic British Tertiary Fossils, stratigraphically 

 arranged ; London, E. Stanford, 1866. 



Mr. Robert Etheridge was a Corresponding Member of the Imperial 

 Institute of Vienna, an Honorai'y Member of the Geological Society 

 of Belgium, of the New Zealand Institute, the Royal Geological 

 Society of Cornwall, the Philosophical Societies of Yorkshire and 

 Bristol, the Geologists' Association, the Norwich Geological Society 

 (since defunct), the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, of the 

 Hertfordshire Natural History Society, the Dorset Natural History 

 and Antiquarian Field Club, and the Northamptonshire Natural 

 History Society and Field Club. 



A severe cold and an attack of bronchitis terminated bis busy and 

 useful life after a brief illness of three days. 



List of Titles of Works and Memoirs by Robert Etheridge, 

 F.R.S. L. & E., F.G.S. 



1. " Geoloofy ; its Relation and Bearing upon Mining." (Lectui'es, Bristol Mining 



School.) 8vo; Bristol, 1859. 



2. '' Descriptions of new species of Mollusca, etc." [_Ceromi/a gibbosa, Astarte 



dentildbrum, and FoUicipes liassicus\ : Quart;. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xx 

 (1864), pp. 112-114. 



3. "Note on the Jurassic Fossils collected by Captain Godwin- Austen " [in the 



N.W. Himalayas] : Quart. Journ. Geol.'Soc, vol. xx (1864), pp. 387-388. 



4. " On the Rhsetic or Avicida contorta Beds at Garden Cliff, Westbury-upon- 



Severn, Gloucestershire " : Proc. Cotteswold Club, vol. iii (1865), pp. 218-234. 

 • 5. "A Catalogue of the Collection of Fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology, 

 Jermyn Street." (Preface by Professor Huxley, pp. i-lxxLx.) Catalogue, 

 pp. 1-382. 8vo. 1865. 



