144 Ohituary — Miscellaneous. 



Mammotli drew some remarks from Mr. Stirrup in 1893-94, and he 

 maintained in opposition to Sir Henry Ho worth that the pre-Glacial 

 age of that elephant had not been demonstrated, at any rate so far as 

 the main history of the animal was concerned. 



THEODORE H. HUGHES, F.G.S. 



Theodore H. Hughes, Assoc. R.S.M., F.G.S., whose death took 

 place in 1907, was for some years an active member of the Geological 

 Survey of India, engaged for the most part in the coalfields of the 

 Damuda and Gondwana Basins. Notices of some of his reports 

 appeared in the Geological Magazine for 1869 and 1872. 



PROFESSOR DR. RUDOLF BURCKHARDT. 

 Born 1866. Died 1908. 



We have also to record the death of the eminent naturalist and 

 palaeontologist Professor Dr. Rudolf Burckhardt, of the University of 

 Basel, who died at the zoological station Rovigno (Austrian coast of 

 Adriatic) on January 14th, in his 42nd year. He contributed papers 

 to this Magazine on ^pyornis, 1893, p. 572; on Hyperodapedon 

 Gordoni, 1900, pp. 486 and 529 ; on Triassic Starfishes, 1901, p. 3. 



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Mk. Reginald "W. Bkock, Professor of Geology in Queen's University, 

 Kingston, has beeu appointed Director of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada, to fill the post temporarily occupied by Professor Robert Bell, 

 who succeeded Dr. George Dawson, as Acting Director. 



" The Zones of the White Chalk of the English Coast." — With 

 the appearance of part v on " The Isle of Wight," in the Proceedings 

 of the Geologists' Association for January, 1908, Dr. Arthur W. 

 Rowe, F.G.S., has at length concluded this important work, which has 

 occupied so many years. The numerous maps have been prepared by 

 Mr. C. Davies Sherborn, F.G.S., and the splendid series of photographs 

 by Dr. H. E. Armstrong, E.R.S. " A task of such magnitude," says 

 the author, " should only have been essayed by one with abundant 

 leisure. The brief holidays snatched from an over busy professional 

 life have, during the past twelve years, been given up unreservedly 

 to this quest. Over 30,000 fossils from the White Chalk have been 

 collected, accuratclg zoned and localised, so that those who wish to study 

 genera and species in bulk can do so unharassed by any uncertainty." 

 We heartily congratulate the author, and are glad to be able to state 

 that Prof. Dr. Charles Barrois, of the University of Lille, France, one 

 of the highest authorities living concerning the Chalk, has kindly 

 written a review of Dr. Rowe's work, which will appear in the April 

 number of the Geological Magazine. 



