192 Obituary — Professor James Geikie, LL.D. 



OBITTJAEY. 



PROF. JAMES GEIKIE, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. L. & E., F.G.S. 1 



Born August 23, 1839. Died March 1, 1915. 



Br the death of Professor James Geikie on March 1 geology in 

 Scotland has lost its most prominent representative. He had been 

 in failing health for some months, but the end was sudden and 

 unexpected. In June, 1914, he had resigned his Chair in Edinburgh 

 University, but as President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and 

 Honorary Editor of the Scottish Geographical Magazine, he had much 

 congenial work with which to occupy his time. His funeral took 

 place on March 5 and was attended by a large and distinguished 

 assembly, including representatives of the University, the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh, the Geological Survey, the Scottish Geo- 

 graphical Society, and many other scientific bodies. A full sketch of 

 his scientific work and career appeared in the Geological Magazine for 

 June, 1913, pp. 241-8. Since that date he had delivered the Munro 

 Lectures in Archaeology at Edinburgh University, which he sub- 

 sequently published as a book entitled The Antiquity of Man in Europe 

 (Edinburgh, 1914). The previous year had seen the publication of 

 his volume on Mountains, their Origin, Growth, and Decay. To the 

 last he continued his*earnest researches in physical and historical 

 geology, and by his genial personality, wide sympathies, and inspiring 

 example he was a powerful influence for research in the sciences of 

 geology and geographv, to which he had devoted his life. 



J. S. F. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Bernard H. Woodward, F.G.S., For. Corr.Z.S.Lond., Director of 

 the Natural History Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, "Western 

 Australia. — We regret to announce the retirement of Mr. B. H. 

 Woodward, after some twenty years, from the post of Director. 

 Since his appointment the New Museum and Art Gallery have been 

 erected, and the excellent arrangement of the entire collections is 

 the result of his extensive knowledge, sound judgment, and untiring 

 energy, the valuable art section in particular being entirely due to his 

 initiative. His published reports on the fossil mammalian remains 

 collected from the Mammoth cave of Western Australia, and upon 

 the new and interesting zoological collections made in the colony, 

 have added largely to the value and importance of this section of the 

 Museum. 



Erratum. — The Editor regrets that on Plate IV (Schlotheimia 

 Greenoughi), in March Number, Geol. Mag., some lines (viz. the 

 incorrectly restored outline of the inner whorls) were erroneously 

 added to the original drawing and not deleted before the proof was 

 sent to press. 



1 For Portrait and Life see Geol. Mag., June, 1913, pp. 241-8, PL IX. 



