144 Ohituary — Frangois Fontannes — The Earl of FnnisJcillen. 



servir a I'histoire de la Periode Tertiaire dans le bassin du Ehone" 

 [Arm. Soc. Agric. Lyon) ; of this eight parts appeared : — 



i. Le Vallon de la Fuly et les Sables a Buccins des Environs d'Heyrieu (Isere) 1875. 

 ii. Les Terrains tertiaires superieurs du Haut Comtat-Venaissin (Bollene. St. 



Paul-Trois Chateaux. Visan) 1876. 

 iii. Le Bassin de Visan (Vaucluse) 1878. 



iv. Les Terrains neogene du Plateau de Cucuron (Cadinet-Cabrieres-d'Aigues), 1878. 

 V. Description de quelques especes nouvelles ou pen connues, 1879. 

 vi. Le Bassin de Crest (Drome), 1880. 

 vii. La Region Delphino-Provenqale, 1881. 

 viii. Le Groupe d'Aix dans Le Dauphine, La Provence et le Bas-Languedoc, 1885. 



An active worker in the field and a careful student in the 

 museum and library, M. Fontannes united in himself the two 

 important requisites for studying problems of this nature. He 

 explored the later Tertiaries of the South of France and the 

 neighbouring regions, wherever known, and traced them into 

 districts where they were not previously known to exist. 



Besides the important works here alluded to, M. Fontannes 

 published numerous papers on the same or on kindred subjects, 

 chiefly in tlie B^dl. Soc. Geol. de France and A^m. Soc. Agric. Lyon. 

 But he also wi-ote on the Miocenes of Portugal (Ann. Sci. Geol. 

 1884) ; on the Constitution of the Subsoil of the Chalk and of the 

 Plain of Avignon (Bidl. Soc. Geol. France, 1884) ; on Borings in the 

 Isere, Drome, and Vaucluse {Ann. Soc. Agric. Lyon, 1883). His minor 

 and miscellaneous papers amount to about forty in number. 



M. Fontannes was an Officer of Public Instruction, and of the 

 Geological Survey of France ; Chevalier of the Order of St. 

 Maurice and Lazare, and a recipient of other Orders conferred by 

 Foreign Governments. In recognition of his important researches, 

 the Academy of Sciences awarded him, in 1883, the Grand Prize 

 of the Physical Sciences. W. Topley. 



THE EARL OF ENNISKILLEN, d.c.l., ll.d., f.r.s., f.g.s.. ivi.r.i.a. 



BoHN 25 Janxjaky, 1807 ; Died, 12 Noyember, 1886. 

 By the death of William Willoughby Cole, third Earl of Ennis- 

 killen, geological science has lost one of its most earnest supporters. 

 Educated at Eton, and afterwards at Christchurch, Oxford, he became 

 attached to Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton, Bart., and having 

 studied geology with him under the Kev. W. Conybeare and Dr. 

 Buckland, they spent their long vacation with the former at Lyme 

 Eegis, where they made the acquaintance of the well-known Mary 

 Anning, and commenced to collect Lias fossils. Afterwards, by 

 advice of Dr. Buckland, they visited Franconia, and explored the 

 caverns of Kiiloch, Eabenstein, Scharzfeld and Gailenreuth, and 

 returned laden with spoils of Hysena, Bear, Lion, Ehinoceros and 

 other cave-animals. Encouraged by Prof. Agassiz, they took up the 

 study of fossil Fishes, with which their names will ever remain 

 associated. It seems only appropriate that the collections made by 

 these two eminent palichthyologists, whose life-long friendship was 

 cemented by a common interest, should now rest side by side in the 

 Geological Gallery of the British Museum (Natural History). 



