288 Ohitiianj^Edward Wilson, F.G.S. 



Mr. Blake is endless. What is one year "a crucial test" and 

 "a decisive proof" is thrown overboard in another as absolutely 

 unimportant, nay, as a good riddance (compare Q.J.G.S., 1888, p. 284, 

 with id., 1892, p. 244, and this Magazine, 1891, p. 487). It is like 

 seeking to tie down Proteus. Prove him wrong, that point is 

 dropped and another is started : " Primo avulso non deficit alter 

 Plumbeus," I will therefore merely say that some of the slips or 

 changes of opinion, which he attributes to me, exist only in his 

 own imagination, and that in regard to one or two points where 

 I have altered my mind (and have never made any secret of it as 

 he seems to insinuate) I am not ashamed to draw fresh inferences 

 when new facts have been discovered. Thus I have had to unlearn 

 much that I was taught in my younger days about crystalline and 

 metamorphic rocks by those to whom I looked up. So I am 

 content (as I believe Miss Raisin is) to leave Mr. Blake apparently 

 in possession of the field, unless it should happen that some former 

 pupil, anxious to flesh a maiden sword, should crave for a subject, 

 in which case I promise to recommend to him the " Revindication 

 of the Llanberis Unconformity." T. Gr. Bokney. 



University College, London. 

 May, 1898. 



Edwaed Wilson, F.Gr.S. — We have just received (May 23rd) the 

 sad intelligence of the loss of our highly esteemed fellow-worker 

 in Geology, Edward Wilson, F.G.S. , for fourteen years the untiring 

 Curator of the Bristol Museum, whose published papers have 

 appeared in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, the 

 Geological Magazine, and other periodicals. In 1888 he received 

 the award of the Murchison Fund from the Council of the Geological 

 Society (of which Society he had been elected a Fellow in 1872). 

 Mr. Wilson's published papers date back for thirty years, and deal 

 with the Red Marls, the Keuper and Bunter Beds, the RhEetic, and 

 Lias. He has also published papers upon the Liassic Gasteropoda, 

 etc. At the time of his death he was investigating the Uphill Cave 

 Deposits, near Weston-super-Mare. He passed away, after three 

 weeks illness, on May 21st, 1898, in his 49th year. 



DvnisciEXjijj^^^rzEOTJs. 



Geological Survey Appointments. — The vacancy caused by 

 the resignation of Mr. W. W. Watts has been filled by the appoint- 

 ment of Mr. W. Pollard, M.A., D.Sc, who joins as an Assistant 

 Geologist in the Petrographical Department ; and that caused by 

 the retirement of Mr. De Ranee has been filled by Mr. C. B. 

 Wedd, B.A., as Assistant Geologist. In Ireland, the petrographical 

 work will be carried on by Mr. H. J. Seymour, B.A., who succeeds 

 as Assistant Geologist to the post left vacant by the resignation of 

 Professor Sollas. 



