Ohikianj— Edwin Witchell, F.G.8. 479 



paper, -vvhicli is described and figured as a left iscbium (pp. 721-3, 

 figs. 7-9) is the left coracoid. 



In the Geological Magazine, February, 1887, p. 84, the humerus 

 of Pelorosaurus is referred to Cetiosaurns. I had previously, in the 

 Quarterl}^ Journal of the Geological Society, 1882, vol. xxxviii. 

 j5. 371, regarded the same bone as referable to Oniitliopsis, and to 

 that determination I adhere. Cetiosaurus is well known to be allied 

 to Oniitliopsis, but I am aware of no evidence of the presence of 

 Cetiosaurus in the Wealden deposits, in which the type is repre- 

 sented b}' species of Ornithopsis. H. G. Seeley. 



24:th August, 1887. 



PARALLEL STRUCTURE IN IGNEOUS ROCKS. 

 Sir, — I am obliged to Mr. Harker for the information given in his 

 letter in your August Number. I do not see the American Journal 

 of Science, and was not aware that Prof. Dana had partially modified 

 his views, or that Mr. G. H. Williams had by observations on the 

 ground come to the conclusion that the igneous rocks of Cortland 

 were sharply separable from the adjacent crystalline schists. 

 It need hardly be pointed out that this coincidence of opinion 

 between Mr. Williams and myself is of considerable evidential 

 value. Ch. Callaway. 



"Wellington, Shropshire, September nth, 1887. 



OBITTJJLIi"Sr. 



EDWIN WITCHELL, F.G.S., 



Treasurer of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club. 



It is with deep regret that we have to announce the sudden death, 

 on the 20th August last, of Mr. Edwin Witchell, solicitor, of Stroud, 

 at the age of sixty-four. Mr. Witchell was a son of Mr. Edward 

 Witchell, of Nymphsfield, a well-known and highly-i-espected 

 3'eoman, and was born in June, 1823. His tastes from early boy- 

 hood led him more to the study of books than to the cultivation of 

 the soil ; at the early age of thirteen years he was placed in the 

 office of Mr. Paris, of Stroud, the chief local solicitor of those days. 

 Later on he was articled to that gentleman, and ultimately succeeded 

 to his practice in 1847. He was at one time very fond of hunting, 

 and used frequently to accompany the late Mr. Paul Hawkins Fisher 

 in some of the most memorable runs of the adjacent packs of fox- 

 hounds. This exhilarating sport doubtless contributed to his then 

 robust health : but as years crept on, Mr. Witchell gave up his 

 hunter and applied himself assiduously to rambles in pursuit of his 

 favourite science of Geology. About five years ago, when climbing 

 in a dangerous part of the cliffs at Lyme Eegis, heart trouble set 

 in, and for three or four years he has suffered from angina pectoris, 

 but had not been incapacitated from business, nor deterred from 

 carrying on his geological work. And it was while engaged in 

 collecting fossils from the Inferior Oolite at Swift's Hill, near 

 Stroud, that Mr. Witchell overtaxed his strength, and fell amidst 

 the rocks to which he had devoted so much study. In the neigh- 



