Correspondence — A. 8. Kennard 8( B. B. Woodicard. 87 



before that date, any influence on the part of Dean Buckland was 

 out of the question. Professor Rupert Jones has, rightly, I think, 

 referred to the statement regarding Huxley as " not only uncalled 

 for, but unkind." Will he now, for the sake of historical accuracy, 

 give us his reasons for placing the burden of responsibility on the 

 shoulders of the Dean ? And will Mr. Hunt let us have the " long 

 story " so far as it refers to McEnery's notes ? If, as he says, 

 it dates " long subsequent to McEnery's death," again it is difficult 

 to see where and how Dean Buckland's influence was exerted. 



J. Adam Watson. 

 "Hat Tor," Dennington Park Road, Hampstead. 

 December iUt, 1901. 



THE HOLOCENE DEPOSIT AT CASTLE GARY. 



Sir, — In our recent paper on " The Post-Pliocene Non-Marine 

 Mollusca of the South of England" (Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. xvii, 

 pt. 5), when speaking of the holocene deposit at Castle Gary (p. 234) 

 we express regret that we were unable to obtain any information 

 concerning it. 



Our attention has now been called to the fact that an account of 

 this alluvial deposit is given in the Geological Survey Memoir on 

 East Somerset by Mr. H. B. Woodward, and we hasten to express 

 our regrets to that author for the oversight. He gives the following 

 list of shells which he obtained from the spot in 1868, viz. : 

 "Helix aspersa, H. nemoralis, Gyclas, Ancylus Jltwiatilis, Limneus, 

 TJnio (fragments)." Of these, only one, the Ancylus flaviatilis, is 

 common to our list ; concerning the others, not having seen the 

 specimens, we are unable to pronounce any opinion. 



A. S. Kennakd. 



B. B. W^OODWAKD. 



oiBunoTT j^iRn: . 



PROFESSOR RALPH TATE, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Born 1840. Died September 20, 1901. 



If Professor Tate had remained in England his loss would have 

 been severely felt by British geologists ; as it is, that loss is to 

 a large extent transferred to the Antipodes, where South Australia 

 will increasingly lament the departure of oue who has been so 

 much to the science of the Colony. In this country' his memory 

 will linger chiefly in the minds of those who can look back beyond 

 the last quarter of a century, but it will be a fond memory, based 

 on sincere admiration of his powers and his character. 



Ealph Tate was the nephew of the well-known geologist George 

 Tate of Alnwick, where he was born in 1840. He received his 

 primary education at the Cheltenham Training College, whence he 

 was sent in 1857 to the Eoyal School of Mines, where he studied 

 for two years. After some little practice in teaching at the Poly- 

 technic he went to Belfast in 1861 as teacher of Natural Science 



