430 Obituary—Robert John Lechmere Guppy. 
of beds to be regarded as of contemporaneous origin and belonging to 
the older Miocene. At a later date, however, a similar fauna was 
reported from beds in the Island of St. Bartholomew, associated with 
corals of a pre-Miocene facies, described by Duncan, which resulted 
in the Farallon Rock, the San Fernando, and St. Bartholomew Beds 
being correlated together and recognized as of Kocene age or Lower 
Oligocene of later authors. So far as is known at present, the oldest | 
Tertiary beds at Trinidad occur in the Soldado Islet, where the lowest 
fossiliferous deposits have yielded, according to Miss C. J. Maury’s 
monograph on the Paleontology of Trinidad (Journ. Acad. Nat. Sei. 
Philadelphia, ser. 11, vol. xv, 1912), Venertcardia planicosta, a well- 
known Kocene Pelecypod of Alabama and Europe. 
It is possible, therefore, that the Tertiary fossils from other districts 
of Trinidad, many of which have been described and figured by 
Guppy, are younger than those found in the Soldado, Farallon, or 
San Fernando deposits, although their horizons as given by Guppy 
are not always in agreement with the views of Miss Maury, an ~ 
instance of which may be quoted in respect of the Manzanilla Beds, 
which the latter regards as Lower Oligocene, whereas Guppy and 
Dall schedule them as Eocene. Further studies are required in this 
direction before a more accurate correlation of these rocks can be 
attained. Guppy wrote several memoirs on the geology of other 
West Indian islands and Venezuela, and studied other Tertiary 
material, especially from Jamaica, San Domingo (Hayti), Antigua, 
Tobago, etc., some of his type "Mollusca from Jamaica and San 
Domingo being preserved in the Geological Department of the British 
Museum. He was of opinion that ‘the Caribbean Miocene fauna 
resembled that of Bordeaux, Dax, etc. (these French beds now being 
regarded as Oligocene or uppermost Kocene), rather than the American 
Miocene (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxi, p. 285, 1866). 
Mr. Guppy was a prolific writer on his subject, some of his best 
memoirs having been published by the Geological Society of London, 
to which he was elected a Fellow in 1866, but he resigned in 
1882. Although his views on ‘‘ the existence of an Atlantis in the 
early Tertiary period ” have not been generally accepted by geologists, 
such a fact should in no way minimize the great importance and 
value of his paleontological researches on the West Indies, which 
will always form the basis of similar work that may be undertaken 
by any future investigators. Mr. Guppy has contributed no fewer 
than fifty-one papers to various scientific journals, and with one 
exception (a paper on Australian geology) the whole series deals 
exclusively with the geology and paleontology of the West Indies. 
From 1864 to 1900 he contributed fifteen papers to the GroLoeIcaL 
Magazine. Having known Mr. Guppy personally for many years we 
would wish to offer our sympathy to the widow and family in their 
bereavement. Rabe, 
Erratum.—Dr. C. A. Cotton desires to correct an error in his paper, 
‘‘On the Geological Structure of New Zealand”’ (see Gron. Mae., 
June, 1916). On p. 247, line 36, for ‘left’ read ‘continuously’ 
above water.—Ep. Grou. Mae. 
