144 Obituary — G. Wareing OrmerocI — Wm. Danes. 



GEORGE WAREING ORMEROD, M.A., F.G.S. 



Among the losses recently sustained by geological science, we have 

 to record that of Mr. G. W. Ormerod, who died at Teignmouth on 

 January 6th, aged 82. He was a son of the late George Ormerod of 

 Tyldersley House, Lancaster, and Sedbury Park, Gloucester, well 

 known as the author of " The History of Cheshire." The Ormerods 

 were a family which had been connected with Ormerod Hall, near 

 Burnley, in Lancashire, since the time of Edward IlL 



G. W. Ormerod, after taking his degree at Oxford, practised for 

 some years in the law at Manchester ; he subsequently resided at 

 Chagford on the borders of Dartmoor, and for the last twenty years 

 at Teignmouth. To the country in which he resided he devoted most 

 of his attention as a geologist. His papers included the following : 

 an Outline of the principal Geological Features of the Salt-field of 

 Cheshire and the adjoining districts; on the " Waterstone Beds" 

 of the Keuper ; on some Veins of Granite in the Carbonaceous 

 Eocks on the North and East of Devon and East of Dartmoor; 

 Geology of the upper part of the valley of the Teign ; on the Struc- 

 ture of the Granite of Dartmoor; and papers on the New Red rocks 

 of the neighbourhood of Teignmouth. To geologists he was perhaps 

 best known as the compiler of the Classified Index to the Transac- 

 tions, Proceedings, and Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 

 of which the third supplement (up to 1889) was published last year. 

 He was one of the original members of the Devonshire Association, 

 and one of the founders of the Teign Naturalists' Field Club, of 

 which for many years he was Secretary. 



WILLIAM DAVIES, F.G.S. 

 We regret to record the death of Mr. William Davies, F.G.S., for 

 forty-four years connected with the Geological Department of the 

 British Museum. Mr. Davies was born at Holywell, Flintshire, in 

 1814, and entered the Museum on 19th Dec. 1843. He had already 

 studied Botany, and had made a good Hortus siccus of British plants. 

 Under Mr. Charles Konig, he devoted himself to Mineralogy, and 

 soon became an excellent eye-mineralogist. He also worked at the 

 fossil fishes in the Museum, many of which he afterwards described 

 in this Magazine. He devoted many years of patient study to 

 the fossil Vertebrates, but his knowledge was generously given to 

 others as soon as solicited. With Sir Antonio Brady he formed a fine 

 collection of the Mammalian-remains from the Thames-Valley Brick- 

 earth, which he described and catalogued. The Geological Society of 

 London, in 1873, awarded Mr. Davies the first Murchison Medal; 

 and in 1877 elected him a Fellow of the Society, the Council pre- 

 senting him with the Life Fellowship. 



In 1875 Mr. Davies was made an Assistant, and in 1880 promoted to the First 

 Class, in recognition of his valuable services. He took a very active part in the 

 removal and re -arrangement of the Geological Collections at Cromwell Road, from 

 1880 to 1887, when he retired on a pension. He died on the 13th February last, 

 warmly esteemed and deeply regretted by all who knew him. 



A list of his papers will appear in next month's issue. — H. W. 



