576 Obituary — Mr. Richard Meade. 



Acanthodes Mitchelli. At the same place, the minister afterwards 

 found two more fishes, which were named by Sir Philip, Climatius 

 scutiger and Diplacanthus (IschnacantJius) gracilis. The three species 

 were exhibited in Aberdeen in 1859, in illustration of a paper read 

 by Mr. Mitchell before the British Association at its Meeting in 

 that city. They were afterwards figured in the Tenth Decade of 

 the Geological Survey of England. Another fish called after him 

 is Pteraspis Mitchelli, by his old friend James Powrie, F.G.S., of 

 Eeswallie, near Forfar, also like himself an ardent collector of 

 Devonian Fishes and Crustacea. Both Sir Roderick Murchison 

 and Sir Charles Lyell sought him out in his country " Manse," 

 and examined his extensive palseontological and mineralogical 

 collections. 



In 1874 his alma mater, the University of Aberdeen, conferred on 

 him the degree of LL.D. 



Last year, being aged and infirm, he obtained a colleague to 

 relieve him of his ministerial duties, and returned to his native city. 

 He desired before his departure to dispose of his collection, and 

 it was ultimately arranged that it should be sent to the British 

 Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Eoad, London, which was 

 accordingly done. The names of Dr. Mitchell's Old Red Sand- 

 stone fish specimens, now in the Geological Department of the 

 British Museum, take up about 6|^ pages of the Manuscript Catalogue. 



On the forenoon of Saturday, 10th November, 1894, Dr. Mitchell 

 peacefully passed away in his 73rd year, leaving a widow and many 

 sympathising friends to mourn his loss. Robert Hunter. 



RICHARD MEADE. 



Richard Meade, who was so well known in connection with the 

 Mining Record Office, was born in Dublin, in 1827, and died on 

 the 12th September, 1894, after a few hours' illness. He entered 

 the public service in 1841, in the Drawing Office of the old Houses 

 of Parliament, as an assistant to Dr. Reid, who then had charge of 

 the ventilating arrangements of the Houses of Parliament. Here 

 he received instruction in drawing, and was trained as a Surveyor. 

 Jn 1853, when Sir Charles Barry assumed the control of the 

 ventilating arrangements, Mr. Meade was transferred to the Mining 

 Record Office in the Museum of Practical Geology, as Assistant 

 Keeper of Mining Records, under the late Mr. Robert Hunt, F.R.S. 



Here, in the preparation of the volumes of " Mineral Statistics," 

 he acquired that mastery over facts and figures connected with British 

 mining which enabled him, in 1882, to publish his book entitled 

 " The Coal and Iron Industries of the United Kingdom," an 

 elaborate work,^ the result of five years' labour, which was recog- 

 nized as a standard work of reference on the subject. 



On the abolition of the Mining Record Office, in 1883, Mr. Meade 

 was transferred to the Home Office, and was appointed Clerk of 

 Mineral Statistics, a position which he held till 1889, when ill-health 

 necessitated his retirement from the service. 



^ Noticed in the Geological Magazine for 1883, p. 324. 



