48 Mucellaneous. 



one based on phylogenetic relationship. His later memoir on the 

 Platysomidte was equally fundamental and of the same nature. All 

 subsequent discoveries, many made by Traquair liimself, have con- 

 firmed these conclusions, which are now universally accepted. In 1 878 

 Dr. Traquair demonstrated the Dipneustan nature of the Devonian 

 Diptenis, and somewhat later he began the detailed study of the 

 Devonian fishes. His latest researches on the Upper Silurian fishes 

 of Scotland are equally important, and provide a mass of new know- 

 ledge for which we are indebted to his exceptional skill and judgment 

 in unravelling the mysteries of early Vertebrate life. 



AWAKD BY THE AcADEMT OF SCIENCES, PaKIS, FOR RESEARCHES IN" 



Petrography. — The Academy of Sciences, Paris, has awarded the 

 Delesse prize to Dr. J. J. H. Teall, F.R.S., Director of the Geological 

 Survey of Great Britain, for his researches in petrography. 



The Eoyal Geological Society of Cornwall. — The annual meeting 

 of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall was held at the Camborne 

 School of Mines in October, Mr. A. K. Barnett, F.G.S., Mayor of 

 Penzance, presiding. The event of the meeting was the presentation 

 of the William Bolitho medal for the year to Mr. Dpfield Green, 

 r.G.S., whose excellent work in connection with the geology of 

 Cornwall had, in the words of the report of the Council, "fully 

 merited the highest distinction in their power." — Mining Journal, 

 Nov. 2nd. 



Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. — Dr. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., who 

 two years ago presented to the Sedgwick Museum his valuable 

 collection of rocks, has now presented also the whole of his collection 

 of rock-slices, consisting of some two thousand seven hundred 

 specimens. Professor T. McKenny Hughes says the gift is one of 

 great scientific value. — Morning Post, I^ovember 20th, 1907. 



Museum of Practical Geology. — After a service of thirty years 

 Mr. Alexander Pringle, M.A., has retired from the post of Assistant- 

 Curator, which he has held to the great advantage of the institution 

 and of the public. To the numerous enquirers in reference to minerals 

 and ore-deposits, to gems and precious stones, he was ever ready to 

 give sound information, for like the late Thomas Davies he had 

 acquired great experience and eye-knowledge of minerals. He is 

 succeeded by Mr. W. F. P. McLintock, B.Sc. (Edin.). 



Erratum. — In Professor J. W. Spencer's article, published in the 

 Geological Magazine for October, 1907, p. 441, on the "Recession 

 of Niagara Falls," three words were accidentally dropped out in line 4 

 from foot of page. Instead of "Almost all of the physical changes 

 in," etc., please add the three words in italics, viz., " Almost all of 

 the discoveries in the physical changes in," etc. 



