Obituary — R. F. Tomes. 567 



-when dealing with the coral Heterastrcea rhcetica, from the Avicula 

 ■contorta beds of Deerhurst, Gloucestei'shire. 



Mr. Tomes became a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1877, 

 and communicated numerous papers which appeared in the Quarterly 

 Journal of the Society from 1878 to 1903. Whether short or long, 

 these papers — all on fossil corals — embodied the results of critical 

 examination and accurate field-work, although the results arrived 

 at from an examination of the corals were frequently contested by 

 Duncan. To the Geological Magazine he contributed an even 

 greater number of papers on the same subject, always making his 

 own drawings. 



L. ElCHARDSON. 



LIST OF TITLES OF PAPERS BY ROBERT FISHER TOMES, F.G.S. 



"On the Position of Gryphcea incurva in the Lower Lias at Bridgend": Proc. 



Cotteswold jN"at. F.C., vol. iii (1865), pp. 192-194. 

 *'0n the Stratijrraphical Position of the Corals of the Lias of the Midland and 



Western "Counties of England and of South Wales " : Quart. Journ. Geol. 



Soc, vol. xxxiv (1S78), pp. 179-195, and pi. ix. 

 "A List of the Madreporaria of Crickley Hill, Gloucestershire, with Descriptions of 



some New Species" : Geol. Mag., 1878, pp. 297-305. 

 "On the Fossil Corals obtained from the Oolite of the Railway Cuttings near Hook 



Norton, Oxfordshire" : Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. vi (1879), pp. 152-165. 

 ■■" Description of a New Species of Coral \Thamnastrcea [Synastrma) Waif or di] from 



the Middle Lias of Oxfordshire": Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxviii 



(1882), pp. 95, 96, and fig. in text. 

 •" On the Madreporaria of the Inferior Oolite of the Neighbourhood of Cheltenham 



and Gloucester" : Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxviii (1882), pp. 409-449, 



and pi. xviii. 

 " On the Fossil Madreporaria of the Great Oolite of the Counties of Gloucester and 



Oxford": Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxix (1883), pp. 168-196, and 



pi. vii. 

 ■" On some new or imperfectly known Madreporaria from the Coral Rag and Portland 



Oolite of the Counties of Wilts, Oxford, Cambridge, and York": Quart. 



Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxix (1883), pp. 555-565, and pi. xxii. 

 " A Comparative and Critical Revision of the Madreporaria of the White Lias of the 



Midland and Western Counties of England, and of those of the Conglomerate 



at the base of the South Wales Lias " : Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xl 



(1884), pp. 353-374, and pi. xix. 

 ■" A Critical and Descriptive List of the Oolitic Madreporaria of the Boulonnais" : 



Quart. Jom-n. Geol. Soc, vol. xl (1884), pp. 698-723, and pi. xxxii. 

 " On some new or imperfectly known Madi-eporaria from the Great Oolite of the 



Counties of Oxford, Gloucester, and Somerset": Quart. Joui-n. Geol. Soc, 



vol. xli (1885), pp. 170-190, and pi. v. 

 " Observations on some imperfectly known Madreporaria from the Cretaceous 



Formation of England" : Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xli (1885), Abs. of 



Proc, pp. Ill, 112. 

 "* ' On the occurrence of Two Species of Madreporaria in the Upper Lias of Gloucester- 

 shire": Geol. Mag., 1886, pp. 107-111. 

 *' On some new or imperfectly known Madreporaria from the Inferior Oolite of 



Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Dorsetshire": Geol. Mag., 1886, 



pp. 385-398 and 443-452. 

 " On Paleozoic Madreporaria" : Geol. Mag., 1887, pp. 98-100. 

 "On Hetcrastraa, a new genus of Madreporaria from the Lower Lias": Geol. 



Mag., 1888, pp. 207-218. 

 " Notes on an Amended List of Madreporaria of Crickley HiU " : Proc. Cotteswold 



Nat. F.C., vol. ix (1890), pp. 300-307, and plate. 

 "Observations on the Affinities of the Genus Astroccenia" : Quart. Journ. Geol. 



Soc, vol. xlix (1893), pp. 569-573, and pi. xx. 



