480 Obituary — J. W. Kirkhy, Prof. Claypole, M. F. Woodward. 



Eumney and the Ehastic beds of Penarth attracted his special 

 attention. He obtained a new Silurian alga which was named 

 Nematophycus Storrei, and he found in Triassic strata a new species 

 of Mastodonsaurus. His researches on these subjects, and many 

 important articles on local botany and archseology, were published 

 in the Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society. He was 

 awarded the proceeds of the Barlow-Jameson Fund in 1896 by the 

 Geological Society of London. An interesting account of his life 

 and labours, accompanied by a portrait, appeared in the " Public 

 Library Journal " of Cardiff for June, 1901, 



JAMES WALKER KIRKBY, F.G.S. Edinb. 

 Born April 10, 1834. Died July 30, 1901. 



This well-known geologist of Leven, Fife, was author of many 

 good papers on the strata and fossils, Permian and Carboniferous, 

 of Durham and Fifeshire. One paper, in 1882, was written in 

 company with E. W. Binney, for whom he managed the Pirnie 

 Coal-mine. His first paper was published in 1858, and the two last 

 appeared in the Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 

 1901, vol. viii, pt. 1. From 1859 onwards numerous papers on the 

 Upper PalEeozoic Ostracoda were produced by Messrs. J. W. Kirkby 

 and T. Kupert Jones, as joint authors, having worked together in 

 determining and describing these microzoa. 



He was an invalid for years, yet his persistent energy enabled 

 him to throw much light on the succession and characters of the 

 long series of Carboniferous and Permian strata, by his personal 

 research, and largely by the aid of his exact knowledge of the 

 Ostracoda and their associated fossils. The Murchison Geological 

 Fund was awarded him in 1879 by the Geological Society of London. 



Having a retiring and modest disposition and very poor health, 

 Mr. Kirkby did not move much beyond the circle of home 

 neighbours and loving friends, but he had many admirers abroad 

 who knew and appreciated his work. 



We have to record the death from apoplexy of Professor Edward 

 Waller Clatpole, D.Sc Lond., B.A., F.G.S., of Throop Polytechnic 

 Institute, Pasadena, California, U.S.A., one of the founders and for 

 many years editor of the American Geologist. 



Martin Fountain Woodward, Demonstrator in Biology, Eoyal 

 College of Science, South Kensington, and Secretary of the Malaco- 

 logical Society of London, was unfortunately drowned on the night 

 of September 15th by the capsizing of a boat in a squall at Moyard, 

 near Letterfrack, co, Galway, Ireland, whilst in charge of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory of the Joint Committee of the Department of 

 Agriculture (Fisheries Branch) and the Eoyal Dublin Society, at 

 Ballinakill, during the Summer vacation. He was a naturalist of 

 great promise and author of several important papers on the dentition 

 of the Mammalia, on Pleurotomaria and other Mollusca, etc. He was 

 the second son of the Editor of the Geological Magazine, 



