144 Ohituanj— W. D. Crick— E. J. Chajman. 



WALTER DRAWBRIDGE CRICK, F.G.S. 



Boux Decembeii 15, 1857. Died December 215, I'JO.'S. 



By the death of Mr. W. D. Crick, of Northatuptoii, geological 

 science has lost an earnest and amiable local worker. Born at 

 Hanslope, in Buckinghamshire, he was educated for a business 

 careei', and became in 1880 a partner in the firm of Latimer, Crick, 

 and Co., manufacturers, in Northampton. His interest in geology 

 and natural science in general w^as aroused by Mr. Beeby Thompson^ 

 F.G.S., who was then headmaster at the old Science School at 

 Northampton. Together the^' noted the strata and collected the 

 fossils of the Lias and Oolites for many a mile around the town. 

 One new species from the Upper Lias of Heyford was named 

 MatM/da Crichi by Mr. Hudleston. and another from the Middle 

 Lias of Daventry was named Trochus Cricki by Mr. E. Wilson. 

 Mr. Crick took up the special study of Foraminifera, and was 

 locally the best authority on this subject. We are indebted for 

 these particulars to an Obituary by Mr. B. Thompson, Journ. 

 Northamptonshire Nat. Hist. Soc. (1903), xii, 134 (with portrait). 

 He was author or joint author of the following geological papers : — 

 1883. " Notes on the Geolofjv of W\iniu^tou Tunnel " : .Journ. Northamptonshire 



Nat. Hist. Hoc, ii; 27'2. 

 1887. "Note on some Foraminifera from the Oxford Chiv at Kevston, near 



Thrapston": ibid., iv, 233. 

 1889. "The Lias Marlstone of Tilton, Leicestershire" (with E. Wilson) : Geol. 



Mag., Dec. Ill, Vol. YI, 296, 337. 

 1891, 1892. " Ou some Liassic Foraminifera from Northamptonshii-e " (with C. D, 



Sherborn) : Journ. Northamptonsliire Nat. Hist. Soc, vi, 208; vii, 67. 



E. J. CHAPMAN. LL.D., Ph.D. 

 We notice the death on the 28th of January at The Pines, Hampton 

 Wick, of Mr. E. J. Chapman, LL.D., Ph.D., who was formerly 

 professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Toronto. 

 The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science, and Art, of which, during 

 the fifties and sixties, he was general editor, contains a large number 

 of his notes and papers. Among these may be mentioned " A New 

 Species of Agelacrinites (A. Billiugsii)," " Rib- formulae in Brachio- 

 pods," and " A Popular Exposition of the Minerals and Geology of 

 Canada," which was subsequently revised and republished as an 

 independent work. He is also responsible for one of the many 

 classifications of the Crinoidea. 



Progress of the Mineralogioal Survey ok Ceylon. — We learu 

 from a correspondent in Kandy, Ceylon, under date 2nd February, 

 1904, that a new room has recently been set apart in the Colombo 

 Museum as a Mineral Gallery', and has been arranged by A. K. 

 Coomaraswamy, Director, and James Parsons, Assistant Director of 

 the Mineralogical Survey of Ceylon. The exhibit is formed entirely 

 ol Ceylonese rocks and minerals ; a large part of the specimens has 

 been collected by the two officers of the Mineral Survey. Diagrams 

 and geological photographs find a place upon the walls. Two wall- 

 cases are devoted to economic specimens, amongst which a series 

 illustrating the manufacture of iron and steel by the Sinhalese (now 

 quite given up) is of special interest. 



