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3. Zur Kenntniss der Fauna der Etage F—f 1 in der paleozoischen Schichtengruppe 
Bohmens (Sitz. k. bohm. Ges. Wiss. Jahrg. 1886. Prag, 1886). 
Macheracanthus Bohemicus, Barrande, removed from Clenacanthus. 
~ Added to the Faunal List, which is given in full, as consisting of 128 species :— 
Gyroceras Kayseri, nov. sp. 
Tentaculites acuarius, Richter. 
Hyolithes (Orthotheca) intermedius, nov. sp. 
Aristozoé solitaria, nov. sp. 
Ceratiocaris modesta, n. sp. MS. 
Damesi, u. sp. MS. 
Nautilus Aline, nov, sp., from Ktage E—e 2, is also figured and described in 
the Appendix. The relationship of Cryptocaris to Hyolithes, as its operculum, 
is fully proved (see also Prof. Novak’s Memoir on the Tentaculites of the Silurian 
strata of Bohemia in the Beitrage zur Palaontologie Osterreich-Ungarns, vol. ii. 
1882. 
4. Note sur Phasganocaris, nouveau Phyllocaride de l’EKtage F—f 2, en Bohéme. 
(Sitz. k. bohm. Ges. Wiss. Jahrg. 1886. Prag, 1886). 
5. On the Occurrence of a new form of Discinocaris in the Graptolitic Beds of the 
**Colonie Haidinger’”’ in Bohemia (Grou. Mac. Dec. III. Vol. 1X. No. 334, 
August, 1892). 
Most of Dr. Novak’s valuable discoveries in the history of 
the Phyllocarids have been noticed in our Reports to the British 
Association. (See also Neues Jahrb. 1893, pp. 1-6.) 
Jal, \NG eyoGl WM IR. dl. 
HENRY FRANCIS BLANFORD. 
Henry Francis BuanrorpD was born in 1834 in Bouverie Street, 
Whitefriars, where his father had a manufactory, now the ‘“ Daily 
News” Printing Office. His early education was obtained at private 
schools in Brighton and Brussels, and after studying for some time 
at the old School of Design in Somerset House he joined the Royal 
School of Mines at its first commencement in 1851, and a life that 
might otherwise very possibly have been devoted to art, for he was 
an admirable draughtsman, was thenceforward gained to science. 
At the Royal School of Mines he took the first place in his year, 
and received the Duke of Cornwall’s Scholarship, then the only 
prize. After a year’s study in Freiberg and another year in London, 
which he employed in preparing a translation of Scheerer’s work on 
the blowpipe, his first publication, he was appointed to the staff of 
the Geological Survey of India together with his brother, Mr. W. 
T. Blanford, and landed in Calcutta at the end of September, 1855. 
Almost immediately after their arrival in India, the two brothers 
and Mr. W. Theobald were despatched to examine and report upon 
an almost unknown Coalfield around Talchir in Orissa. ‘The work 
done was chiefly memorable geologically for one discovery, that of 
the Talchir Boulder bed, and for the circumstance that, chiefly 
through Mr. H. F. Blanford’s observations. the first step was taken 
towards the classification of the remarkable series of beds associated 
with the Indian Coal-bearing rocks, for both the underlying Talchir 
division and an overlying mass were separated from the Damuda or 
true Coal-bearing beds. For some time after this Mr. H. F. Blanford 
was engaged in Calcutta in charge of the Survey Office and was 
occupied with Paleontological work in the Museum; but in 1857 
he was placed at the head of a strong survey party that was des- 
patched to Madras, and he was chiefly engaged for the next three 
