Dr. Henry Hicks—Folds and Faults in N. Devon Rocks. 3 
separate published papers exceeds one hundred, and he is joint 
author of nearly half as many more with Dr. Harvey B. Holl, 
F.G.S., Professor W. K: Parker, F.R.S., Dr. H. B. Brady, F.BR.S., 
Mr. J. W. Kirkby, Dr. H. Woodward, F.R.S., Mr. Chas. Davies 
Sherborn, F.G.8., Dr. G. J. Hinde, V.P.G.S., and others. 
From 1850 to 1865, Prof. Rupert Jones Edited the Quarterly 
Journal of the Geological Society, and, at the request of the Council, 
he undertook the editing of the latter half of vol. xlvi. (1890), left 
unfinished by the lamented death of Mr. W. 8. Dallas. 
Whether as Lecturer, Professor, Author, or Reviewer, Prof. T. 
Rupert Jones has always aimed at the advancement of geological 
science, and although never enjoying a liberal emolument for his 
professional services, he has never lost his enthusiasm, but laboured 
on for more than forty years, and is still full of energy and love 
for that science to which he has devoted his whole life. He has 
the satisfaction to know that although the pursuit of science is not 
so remunerative as other professions to which he might have turned 
his talents, he has nevertheless earned the warm esteem and regard 
of a very wide circle of friends and fellow-workers who admire his 
personal character and respect his worth. 
I].—Some Hxampres or Foups ann Fautts In THE Devonian 
Rocks av AND NEAR ILFRAcomBE, NortH Devon. 
By Henry Hicxs, M.D., F.R.S., Sec.G.8. 
INTRODUCTION. 
N a paper read by me before the Geological Society of London 
on November 26th, 1890,1 I mentioned that I had obtained 
evidence during a recent visit to North Devon which had led me 
to believe that far too little importance had hitherto been assigned 
to the results of movements in the earth’s crust as affecting the suc- 
cession of the rocks in that area. I mentioned also that the supposed 
continuous upward succession from the rocks on the shore of the 
Bristol Channel to those in the neighbourhood of Barnstaple, in- 
cluding, according to some authors, no less than ten distinct groups, 
Was an erroneous interpretation; for the beds are greatly plicated 
and faulted and several times repeated. Therefore instead of being 
one continuous series with a regular dip to the south, the beds are 
much folded in several broken troughs. In this paper I purpose 
giving some examples of the folds and faults near Ilfracombe which 
will enable those who visit that neighbourhood to verify the state- 
ments which I have made in regard. to some of the rocks in that 
area.” 
It will be seen that the beds have’ been constantly inverted and 
the folds broken, so that older beds have been made to appear to 
overlie conformably newer beds. The movements have taken place 
1 See Abstract in Proceedings Geol. Soc. No. 562, and Grou. Mac. Dee. 1890. 
2 The Morte Slates, which have always been classed as newer than the Ilfracombe 
beds, I stated in the same paper to be the oldest rocks in the area, and they are 
now ‘proved by their contained fossils to be of Silurian age. 
