Obituary— Franl; Eutley. 333. 



fragments were exposed on the face of the section. Sir John Evans 

 kindly informed me that he considered two of the flints to be 

 artificially made, and probably of Neolithic date. The soft earthy 

 capping of the clilf is about the same height as the highest beach 

 deposits, but is clearly much more recent. The flints did not 

 overlie the beach, but were to the eastward of the eastern end of 

 the raised beach. 



I see that Sir Archibald Geikie mentions the fact that the 20 foot 

 terrace on the north-east coast of Ireland has produced many worked 

 flints, regarded as Neolithic (Q.J.G.S., vol. Ix, p. xcvi). These 

 Hope's Nose flints are clearly more recent than the raised beach 

 (about equivalent to a 24 foot terrace), and it is likely enough that 

 they were made out of the flints which occur in the beach, but are^ 

 not elsewhere found in the immediate neighbourhood. I am far 

 from wishing to trouble your readers with any remarks of ray own 

 on this rather perplexing subject, but the mere fact of the discovery 

 of Neolithic flakes newer than the adjacent beach at Hope's Nose,. 

 Torbay, may be worth a bare record. A. E. Hunt. 



SouTHWooD, Torquay. 

 June lith, 1904. 



FRANK RUTLEY. 



BoKN May 14, 1842. Died May 16, 1904. 



The son of a medical practitioner at Dover, Frank Eutley became 

 early in life interested in geology, and studied at the Eoyal School 

 of Mines from 1862 to 1864. In 1867 he was appointed an Assistant 

 Geologist on the Geological Survey, under Sir Eoderick Murchisou 

 and Professor Eamsay. For a few years he was engaged in field- 

 work with W. T. Aveline in the Lake District. There he gave 

 some attention to the subject of glaciation, but, probably through 

 the influence of his colleague, the late J. Clifton Ward, he began 

 to undertake the special study of rocks and rock-forming minerals. 

 The importance of the microscope in the examination of rocks wa& 

 at this period becoming recognized, and Mr. Eutley was transferred 

 to the Geological Survey Office in Jermyn Street, to undertake the 

 determination and description of the igneous rocks that were collected 

 in the course of the geological survey ; he took charge also of the 

 rock-collection in the Museum of Practical Geology. His first 

 official work dealt with the volcanic rocks of East Somerset and the 

 Bristol district (1876), and he later on wrote special memoirs on 

 the eruptive rocks of Brent Tor (1878), and on the Felsitic Lavas 

 of England and Wales (1885). 



He was author in 1874 of a small but exceedingly useful work 

 on Mineralogy for Murby's " Science and Art Department " series 

 of text-books, of which a twelfth edition was issued in 1900, In 

 1879 he wrote an elementary text-book of Petrology, the first work 

 of the kind published in this country, entitled " The Study of Kocks," 



