48 Obituary — Samuel Bowles Pattison. 



order to get into possession of this specimen. Worth about £5. 

 Quenstedt considers it to be a sick Am. bipartitus. Dr. Br." 

 Although this label is in part merely a translation of the label 

 already mentioned as accompanying the specimen, we think it 

 confirms the opinion expressed in the former paper that this example 

 is really Zieten's type-specimen. G. C. Crick. 



British Museum (Natural History), S.W. 

 December 7, 1901. 



SUB-FOSSIL YEW-WOOD. 

 Sir, — Dr. Conwentz, who has published papers on the spontaneous 

 growth of the yew-tree in Germany, read a paper at the meeting (1901) 

 of the British Association on the past history of this interesting 

 tree in Great Britain and Ireland. By microscopical examination he 

 has proved the occurrence of much sub-fossil yew- wood, particularly 

 from buried peat-beds and submerged forests in this country ; but 

 be is anxious for more material from localities in England and 

 Ireland, and he asks all who have an opportunity of collecting 

 examples of reddish woods, looking like yew, to post to him small 

 pieces for examination. His address is : " Prof. Dr. Conwentz, 

 Director of the Museum, Danzig, Germany," and parcels should be 

 labelled outside " Of no value." E. T. Newton. 



OBIT■u■^A^I^3^- 



SAMUEL ROWLES PATTISON. 



Born 1809. Died November 27, 1901. 



The death has been announced, on November 27, at Kensington, 

 of Mr. S. R. Pattison, at the advanced age of 92. Mr. Pattison 

 was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1839. At this 

 period he resided at Launceston, and there he gathered together 

 a fine collection of fossils from the Upper Devonian Limestone of 

 South Petherwin. These specimens and his local information were 

 placed at the disposal of De la Beche and John Phillips when they 

 were engaged on the geological survey in that part of Cornwall, 

 and on the description of the organic remains. Pattison contributed 

 a number of papers to the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall and the 

 Eoyal Geological Society of Cornwall, on the geology of Launceston, 

 Tintagel, and other places. In 1854 he drew attention to an 

 auriferous quartz-rock in North Cornwall (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 

 vol. X, p. 247). In 1871, after a visit to the Franco - Belgian 

 Devonian regions, he brought before the Geologists' Association 

 a paper on the Upper Limits of the Devonian System. In 1849 he 

 published a little work entitled " Chapters on Fossil Botany," and 

 in 1858 " The Earth and the Word ; or, Geology for Bible Students." 

 Mr. Pattison was a member of a firm of solicitors, and his legal 

 knowledge was for many years placed at the service of the Geological 

 Society, on whose Council he served. A few years ago he resigned 

 his fellowship of the Society. 



