238 Obituary— Mr. William Pengelly F.R.S., F.G.S. 



whilst I considered that the high- and mid-level Loess belonged to 

 the Rubble-drift, and was therefore of marine origin. In the paper 

 I now refer to, by M. Xavier Stainor, he gives the analyses of some 

 of the Belgian Loess, in which, besides the ordinary ingredients, a 

 notable proportion of Chloride of Sodiam, in one case as much as 

 1-17 per cent., has been found. This Loess contains the usual 

 common land shells — Fupa marginata, Succinea oblonga, and Helix 

 hispida. Joseph Pkestwjch. 



Shoreham, Kent. 

 April 19th. 



OBITTJ.A.ia'Z". 



WILLIAM PENGELLY, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Born 12th January, 1812. Died 17th March, 1894. 



There has just been gathered to his rest, in his 83rd year, one of 

 that small band of Geologists who assisted Falconer, Busk, Lyell, 

 Prestwich, Lartet, Christy, Evans, Rupert Jones, Boyd Dawkins, 

 and a few others, to place upon a scientific basis that inquiry 

 into the evidence of Pre-historic man which was systematically 

 commenced in this country by the exploration of Brixham Cave in 

 1858. This work, which was carried out under the auspices of 

 the Royal and Geological Societies by Mr. William Pengelly, of 

 Torquay, yielded most important results, and was followed, in 1864, 

 by a similar investigation of the historic Kent's Cavern, Torquay 

 (originally partially explored by the Rev. J. McEnery in 1825), 

 and, like the Brixham Cave, carried out with untiring zeal by Mr. 

 Pengelly for a period of more than fifteen years (see British Asso- 

 ciation Reports 1865-1880). 



William Pengelly was born at East Looe in Cornwall, January 

 12th, 1812. Coining to Torquay as a young man, he opened a school, 

 which he carried on for some years on the Pestalozzian system, and 

 was one of the first to introduce the use of the chalk and black-board 

 in imparting instruction.^ 



The author of numerous treatises on the Devonian and Triassic 

 Rocks of Devonshire, on St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall, and 

 many other geological subjects, Mr. Pengelly, in conjunction with 

 Dr. Heer, of Zurich, published a monograph on " The Lignites of 

 Bovey Tracey," which is regarded as a most valuable scientific work. 

 His assiduity in the collection and arrangement of specimens is 

 testified by the magnificent series of Devonian fossils which, under 

 the title of the Pengelly Collection, was lodged in the Museum 

 of Oxford University by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts in connection 

 with the Burdett-Coutts Scholarship, and also by the splendid 

 collections of bones and flint-implements from Kent's Cavern, 

 which he has placed in the British Museum and in the Museum 



1 Amongst his private pupils in Mathematics was Miss (afterwards the Baroness) 

 Burdett-Coutts, who, through life, remained his staunch friend. 



