144 Miscellaneous. 



at the fossils of the Middle and Upper Lias in the outliers of 

 Ohurchdown, Alderton and Dumbleton ; and his observations on 

 these and other subjects were communicated to the Proceedings 

 of the Cotteswold Club. He belonged to an Irish family, and was 

 educated at Trinity College, Dublin. 



DVCISCELXi JLIsriESOTJS . 



KoYAL Society. — A revised and much enlarged edition of the 

 Kecord of the Royal Society of London has lately been issued. The 

 principal feature of the new edition is the inclusion of two lists 

 of Fellows of the Society from its foundation to the end of 1900, 

 one arranged chronologically and the other alphabetically. It 

 would have been interesting to have portraits of the thirty-seven 

 presidents, but none of those given in the former edition of the 

 Record published in 1897 are repeated, while three only are now 

 inserted. Geological science has been represented in the presidential 

 chair by Wollaston, the Marquis of Northampton, and Huxley. 



Geological Sukvey.— Mr. R. H. Tiddeman, M.A., F.G.S., who 

 joined the staff of the Geological Survey in 1864, under Murchison, 

 has just retired from the public service. 



American Museum of Natural History. — In vol. xi of the 

 Bulletin of this Museum there has been published a catalogue of 

 the types and figured fossils contained in the geological depart- 

 ment, and which number 8,345, representing 2,721 species and 

 190 varieties. The catalogue has been prepared by Mr. R. P. 

 Whitfield, the Curator, and his associate Mr. E. 0. Hovey. The 

 chief palseontological possession of the Museum is the great James 

 Hall collection, which was purchased in 1875, and which includes 

 a large number of type and other illustrated specimens, especially 

 of Paleeozoic species. Most of the ' figured specimens ' in the 

 series are those which were identified, redescribed, illustrated, and 

 published by Professor Hall in the early volumes of the "Palaeontology 

 of New York." The Museum also has the Holmes collection, which 

 includes more than two hundred of the specimens described and 

 figured in Tuomey and Holmes's " Pliocene Fossils of South Carolina" 

 and in Francis S. Holmes's work on the " Post-Pliocene Fossils 

 of South Carolina." It contains, moreover, many Cretaceous forms 

 from Beirut, Syria, and from Jamaica. The term ' type ' is employed 

 to embrace not only the specimens actually used by an author in 

 the original description of a species, but also those specimens which 

 have been used by the same author in the further elucidation of 

 the species in subsequent publications. ' Figured specimen ' is 

 the term applied here to the specimens which have been identified 

 with a species by another person than the author of the species, and 

 which have been illustrated in some publication. 



