Obituary — Bernard J. Harrington. 141 



(in company Avith Mr. G. Bonsor, Dr. Thelwell, and Mr. Mallett) 

 we founci. in the blown sand above the cliff near Constantine Island 

 many traces of hearths, at different levels, down to a depth of 8 feet 

 from the highest point of the midden. There were charcoal, burnt 

 bones, and shells of Patella vulgata, Car Mum edule, and Mytilus 

 edulis (some showing traces of the action of fire on them). The 

 fact of the differing levels of these hearths seems to show a prolonged 

 occupation of the Trevose peninsula by Neolithic man or his 

 descendants in the Bronze or early Iron ages. There is an extensive 

 circular midden round Constantine Clmrch (ruins), there are others 

 covered with blown sand that can be identified by the shells and 

 bones turned out by rabbits in making their burrows. Also an 

 extensive midden occurred at the Harlyn Bay late Keltic burial- 

 ground. I say occurred, because it has been levelled and planted with 

 trees. From that kitchen-midden were obtained teeth of Bos taurus, 

 Sus scrofa, and shells of Mytilus, Patella, Helcion, etc., and quantities of 

 broken Purpura lapillus, which Mr. Santer Kennard, F.G.S., considered 

 were thus broken to extract colour for dyeing. I cannot verify the 

 reference, as I do not keep the Illustrated London Neivs, but, as far 

 as I remember, Mr. George Bonsor, whose discoveries near Carmona 

 have given him a European reputation, found somewhat similar 

 conditions as to kitchen-middens and cooking-sites near St. Marj^'s in 

 the Scilly Isles, but, so far as I know, his paper on this work has not 

 yet appeared. li. Ashington Bullen. 



Woking. 



February bth, 1908. 



OBITXJ-A.I?,"5r_ 



BERNARD J. HARRINGTON, B.A., Ph.D., LL.D. 

 Born August 5, 1848. Died November 29, 1907. 



We regret to record the death of Dr. B. J. Harrington, who was 

 formerly chemist and mineralogist to the Geological Survey of Canada, 

 and subsequently Professor of Mining and also of Chemistry in McGill 

 University, Montreal. Born in the province of Quebec he was 

 educated at McGill University, and afterwards graduated Ph.D. at 

 Tale. In 1872 he succeeded Dr. T. Sterry Hunt as chemist and 

 mineralogist to the Canadian Geological Survey under Selwyn. To 

 the publications of that Survey he contributed reports and analyses of 

 coals, iron-ores, and sundry minerals. He also prepared a catalogue 

 of the Canadian minerals, rocks, and fossils exhibited in the Paris 

 Exhibition of 1878. He described the new mineral Dawsonite (1874), 

 wrote on the microscopic structure of dykes cutting the Laurentian 

 rocks (1877), and on the minerals of some of the apatite-bearing veins 

 of Ottawa County (1879). In later years he contributed papers on 

 mineralogical subjects to the Transactions of the Royal Society of 

 Canada, the American Journal of Science, and other journals. He 

 tad been President of the Chemical and Physical Section of the 

 Royal Society of Canada, and he was appointed a Yice-President of 



