Obituary — Wlteelton Hind. 477 



in the Bristol district liave not been found easy of application to the 

 northern series, although much of Hind's subsequent work was 

 directed towards that end. 



By the discovery of Pendleside zone-fossils in the Culm measures 

 of Devonshire, Hind was able to show that the lower portion of the 

 latter was homotaxially equivalent to the former, while the goniatite 

 fauna of the higher Culm strata confirms Arber's conclusion that they 

 are of Middle Coal-measures age. Despite military duties entailed 

 by the War — Hind went to France as Lieut. -Colonel in command of 

 the North Midland Territorial E.G. A., and later occupied responsible 

 hospital posts in various districts — he found time to elaborate the 

 series of goniatite zones, ranging from the Posidonomya Becheri zone 

 of the Pendleside up to the Middle Coal-measures, which he had 

 formulated in 1909, and, in conjunction with Dr. A. Wilmore, to 

 apply them in a detailed re-examination of the Clitheroe district. 



At an early stage in his work he recognized the necessity for a 

 reinvestigation of the Carboniferous moUusca, and the fruits of this 

 appeared in the form of three monographs on the lamelli- 

 branchs. In conjunction with Mr. J. T. Stobbs a chart was drawn 

 up in which these fossils, especially the freshwater species, were 

 utilized in the establishment of horizons in the North Staffordshire 

 Coalfield. Hind also published an important paper on the moUuscan 

 fauna of the Scottish Millstone Grit, and recognized the relationship 

 to the fauna of homotaxially higher beds in America and Russia. 

 His most imjDortant palseontological work relating to rocks other 

 than the Carboniferous was his description of the Silurian Lamelli- 

 branchs in Mrs. Gray's Girvan collection. 



Elected a member of the Geological Society of London in 1891, 

 he received the Lyell award in 1902 and the Lyell medal in 1917. He 

 was also an honorary member of the Societe Geologique de Belgique, 

 as well as of several British Societies. When it is remembered that 

 his geological work was done in such time as could be snatched from 

 a busy professional life, one marvels that so much was achieved. 

 In a jjeriod of thirty years, some four of which were spent on war 

 service, his published papers numbered over eighty, while in addition 

 his services in the identification of fossils were largely utilized by 

 the Geological Survey as well as by private workers. Such an output 

 was only rendered possible by his wonderful vigour and enthusiasm. 

 Whatever the verdict of the future regarding the details of his work, 

 Hind will be remembered as one of the pioneers in the elucidation 

 of the relationships of the Carboniferous rocks. 



A. S. 



1889. " The Natural Features and Geology of Suffolk " : in W. M. Hind, 

 Flora of Suffolk. 



" Notes on some interesting Geological Sections in North Stafford- 

 shire " : Trans. N. Staffs. Field Club, vol. xxiii, p. 77. 



" A Description of an Inlier of Carboniferous Limestone at Birchwood 

 Moor " : ibid., pp. 441-6. 



