432 Obituary — Mr. Daniel Mackintosh. 



the published details of his experiments leave others free to draw 

 their own conclusions from them. Kroustchoff's interesting syn- 

 thetic production of hornblende and other minerals do not seem to 

 throw any new light on the problems in hand. 



Alfred Harker. 



OBITTJJLiair. 



DANIEL MACKINTOSH, F.G.S. 



Born 1815. Died 19 July, 1891. 



We regret to announce the death of Mr. Daniel Mackintosh, F.Gr.S., 

 who was born in the memorable year 1815, at Blairgowrie, in Perth- 

 shire, where his father had a mill worked by water-power. Imbued 

 with an early love of Natural Science, he left Scotland when about 

 30 years of age. For many years he was a lecturer on Scientific 

 subjects and well known in the south of England, where he lectured 

 at various public institutions and schools on Astronomy, Geology, 

 Physical Geology and Ethnology with considerable success. His 

 manner as a lecturer was clear and spirited, and aroused an interest 

 in the subjects of which he treated. 



Mr. Mackintosh was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 

 1861, and contributed his first paper on " Terminal Curvature " in 

 1867, and afterwards numerous papers to the Society on Surface 

 Sculpture, Denudation, Drift Deposits and the Dispersion of Erratic 

 Blocks. Many of his papers are in the " Eeports of the British 

 Association," and the " Proceedings " of Societies of which he was 

 a member. He was a frequent contributor to the Geological 

 Magazine, and other scientific publications. 



In 1869 Mr. Mackintosh produced his work on "The Scenery of 

 England and Wales," in which he favoured the action of the sea as 

 the greatest denuding agent, and it is illustrated by 86 sketches of 

 geological interest. He received four successive grants in aid of 

 Original Scientific Eesearch, from the Government Grant of the 

 Koyal Society. In 1881, he was presented with the Kingsley 

 Memorial Medal of the Chester Society of Natural Science, and in 

 1886 was awarded the proceeds of the balance of the Lyell Fund by 

 the Geological Society, in recognition of his studies of the Glacial 

 and other Superficial Deposits of the north-west of England. 



About 20 years ago Mr. Mackintosh went to reside at Chester, 

 but a few years after he settled in Birkenhead, and was president of 

 the Liverpool Geological Society during 1881-3. In recent years 

 he devoted much time to the examination of the Drift Deposits and 

 Boulders of North Wales, and during his last exploration ascended 

 Cader Idris when nearly 70 years of age. Soon after he began to 

 fail in both mind and body, and died on the 19th of July last, and 

 his remains now rest in Flaybrick Cemetery, Birkenhead, close to 

 the glaciated areas he so frequently visited and described. His 

 papers on the Glacial Deposits will hold a permanent place in geo- 

 logical literature, and he will be remembered for his kind and gentle 

 disposition by all who came in contact with him. — G. H. M. 



