Miscellaneous. 573 



Hatcher was a most charming companion, and when he could be 

 prevailed upon to relate the story of his adventures in strange and 

 distant places, the listener found his companionship fascinating. 



Though living so much of his life in the wilderness, he was 

 a man of strong domestic attachments. He loved his home, and to 

 none of all the wide circle of his acquaintance does his untimely, 

 death bring deeper and more poignant grief than to his wife and 

 four young children. To them the writer renews in these lines his 

 expression of the deepest sympathy. W. J. Holland. 



IMZISOIELLJ^nsriEOTJS. 



Deslongchamps' Types of Jurassic Brachiopoda.— Tlie British 

 Museum (Natural History) has received a valuable donation, one 

 particularly interesting to students of British Jurassic Brachiopods. 

 It consists of about 100 plaster casts of the types (holotypes, hypo- 

 types), etc., of the Jurassic Brachiopoda figured by E. Deslongchamps 

 in the Paleontologie Frangaise Terr. Jurass., with a few other treasures 

 of the Deslongchamps Collection figured elsewhere. Amono- the 

 latter is a cast of the holotype of the very rare Bhynchonella 

 Deslongchampsi, Davidson — the Museum already possesses the historic 

 Tesson example of this species ; also a cast of the holotype of Terehr. 

 hiplicata (Brocchi), which is not a Cretaceous fossil at all, but is 

 a Jurassic Orniihella. Among the Pal. Franc, specimens the examples 

 of T. conglobata, T. Ferryi, T. Jauherti, and others of Deslongchamps' 

 species will be of especial interest. The Director, Professor E. Eay 

 Lanlcester, F.E.S., has presented this fine series to the Museum. 



Mr. C. Fox-Strangwats, who joined the staff of the Geological 

 Survey under Sir Koderick Murchison in 1867, has retired from 

 the public service. During the course of his long, detailed, and 

 invariably careful work in the field, he has surveyed laro-e areas 

 in Yorkshire, including portions of the great Coalfield, the country 

 around Harrogate, and most of the moorlands and wolds of the 

 North and East Ridings. Thence crossing the Humber he continued 

 work in North Lincolnshire, and finally passed on to Leicester, 

 from which town as a centre he has re-surveyed the Leicestershire 

 Coalfield, Charnwood Forest, and a large area extending from the 

 borders of the Warwickshire Coalfield across the Liassic vale east 

 of Leicester. The results of this work have been published in 

 numerous maps, sections, and memoirs, amongst which may be 

 mentioned two volumes dealing particularly with the Jurassic 

 rocks of Yorkshire. Apart from his official work Mr. Fox-Strano-ways 

 has stirred up much local interest in geology in the localities where 

 he has lived and laboured, especially at Leicester, where his services 

 in conducting excursions have been frequently given, and have 

 always been highly appreciated. 



CoTTESWOLD Naturalists' Field Club. — The President, Dr. C. 

 Callaway, refers (Proc, vol. xv, part 1) to the loss sustained 

 in the death of their old member Robert Etheridge. After 



