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knowledge of the fossiliferous bands in the Carboniferous rocks of 

 Central Scotland. He paid special attention to the occurrence of 

 micro-organisms in the weathered shales of that series, which resulted 

 in the discovery of many forms new to science, described and figured 

 by various specialists. He was the first to record the occurrence 

 of Holothurians in the Carboniferous rocks of Scotland, and was 

 likewise the first to obtain the remains of Arctic plants in the silt 

 and peat of vanished lakes that formerly occupied hollows in the 

 Boulder-clay. With the remains of Arctic plants he discovered 

 fragments of a phyllopod Crustacean, which is now found living only 

 in fresh-water lakes in Greenland and Spitzbergen. Two years ago 

 he received the Murchison Fund from the Geological Society of 

 London, in recognition of his work. Quiet and unobtrusive in 

 manner, and fond of literature, he showed throughout his life a keen 

 love of nature. — Scotsman, January 30. 



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The New Director of the Geological Survey of the United 

 Kingdom and of the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn 

 Street, London. — We have just been informed that J. J. H. Teall, 

 Esq., M.A., Vice-President of the Royal Society, President of the 

 Geological Society of London, has been appointed to succeed 

 Sir Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., as head of the Geological Survey. 

 Mr. Teall is an eminent Petrologist and the author of many 

 important papers on geology ; he has published a most valuable 

 monograph on British Petrography, with which special branch of 

 the science his name will always be connected. He is universally 

 esteemed amongst geologists, and especially by the members of the 

 staff of the Geological Survey, for his geniality and urbanity to all 

 his fellow-workers. As President of the Geological Society he has 

 also won golden opinions. 



The New Professor of Geology at University College, 

 GowER Street. — The Eev. Professor Thomas George Bonney, D.Sc, 

 LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., who succeeded Professor John Morris, F.G.S., 

 in the chair of Geology at University College, in June, 1877, and 

 has occupied that post with such eminent success for 24 years, 

 retires this month and is succeeded by Mr. Edmund Johnstoner 

 Garwood, M.A., F.G.S., of Trinity College, Cambridge, a gentleman 

 already distinguished by his geological observations and writings 

 in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, the Geological 

 Magazine, the Royal Geographical Society's and other scientific 

 journals. Mr. Garwood has done excellent field work in the Alps, 

 the Himalayas, in Spitzbergen ; and in writing upon the Magnesian 

 Limestone and the ' Great Whin Sill,' and the Life-zones of the 

 British Carboniferous Rocks. He has been for some years a Lecturer 

 at Harrow, and as a University Extension Lecturer is well known 

 and esteemed by the scientific public. 



Although Professor Bonney is relinquishing the Chair of Geology 

 at University College, he intends still to pursue his scientific and 

 literary work and will continue his clerical duties as heretofore. 



