Obituary — Arthur Champernowne, F.G.S. 383 



spending some time at Priira and Gerolstein. He also geologised at 

 Paffratli and in other parts of Germany and Belgium. His last 

 foreign trip to Belgimn was particularly interesting to him, and he 

 was enabled to confirm many of his views as to the geology of 

 South Devon by what he saw in the Meuse Valley. In this visit 

 he was greatly assisted by M. Dupont, the Director of the Geological 

 Survey, who desired M. Alphonse Le Due to accompany Mr. 

 Champernowne over much of the ground he wished to see and study. 



He took the greatest interest in the Devonian Corals, in the work- 

 ing out of which he never seemed to tire. He was the first who 

 discovered the Calceola Limestone, and obtained specimens from the 

 cliff-section immediately below Daddy-hole-plain, Torquay — in 

 front of Mr. Lee's house. He also obtained the fine Homalonotus 

 from the Devonian of the "New Cut," Torquay (figured in the 

 Geol. Mag. 1881, PI. XIIL p. 489), and named after him by the 

 writer. So keen was he in the field that wherever he geologised he 

 invariably was the first to discover fossils, and usually the best 

 specimens fell to his own hammer. 



During his Devonian researches he discovered in the "Pit-Park 

 Quarry " near the Hall, a vast number of Stromatoporoids, which led 

 him to enter into an earnest correspondence and have frequent 

 interesting conversations with Dr. H. J. Carter, F.R.S., of Budleigh 

 Salterton, Devon, who had taken much interest in this group of 

 organisms. Mr. Chamjoernowne with great diligence extracted large 

 numbers of these fossils from the Limestone, and had numerous 

 sections cut and polished at his own cost to illustrate their internal 

 structure, and he most liberally distributed these to various museums 

 and individuals interested in their examination. 



Prof. Nicholson writes, " Mr. Champernowne took a special interest 

 in the Stromatoporoids, and gave me throughout the most unselfish 

 and ungrudging help in the work I had undertaken, namely, to 

 prepare a Monograph on this group of organisms for the Palseon- 

 tographical Society. He not only placed at my disposal the whole 

 of his splendid collection from the British Devonians, but he freely 

 laid before me the results of his own studies in these diificult fossils ; 

 indeed, I owe more than I could easily measure to his friendly 

 criticisms on my work, and his wise suggestions as to the particular 

 lines of research which it would be wise for me to follow. With 

 this feeling, I cannot but recognize in the death of Arthur Champer- 

 nowne that a heavy loss has befallen the small band of British 

 PaljBontologists of which he was so excellent a type. It is not 

 only a gifted scientific observer that has gone from amongst us, but 

 a genuine man and a loyal and true-hearted friend." 



With Mr. Horace B. Woodward, Mr. W. A. E. Ussher, of the 

 Geological Survey, and Mr. Frank Eutley, he was in frequent cor- 

 respondence ; and when the former Surveyors were at work in his 

 area, it afforded Mr. Champernowne the keenest pleasure to join 

 them in the field and share his knowledge of the country with them. 



The visit paid to Devonshire by Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Eoemer, of 

 Breslau (the Geological Historian of the Devonian rocks of the 



