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which, deposited it entered the valley from a centre of dispersion to the 

 eastward, and subsequent to the Lake period, the history of which 

 Jamieson has so well cleared up. 



The topography of this obstruction and its material are typical of 

 terminal moraines, and what is most conclusive regarding its western 

 frontage, there is an outwash apron which starts from its western 

 margin and slopes gently away into the lower valley. This outwash 

 plain has been cut away in a gorge subsequently eroded by the River 

 Boy. The plain is, howevei*, perfectly preserved on both sides of the 

 valley, and seen from above was a conspicuous feature in the landscape 

 at the time visited, because of a carpet of green, which contrasted 

 sharply with the brown hue of the less fertile moraine and the 

 valley walls. 



It thus seems probable that the waning of the ice in the western 

 mass around Ben Nevis was succeeded by an augmentation of the ice 

 in the more eastern of the near-lying centres of dispersion. 



Wm. H. Hobbs, 

 Professor of General and Dynamical Geology. 



Department of Geology, 



University of Michigan, 



Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. 

 September 26, 1908. 



OBITXJJ^RTT- 



CHARLES FREDERICK COCKBURN. 

 Born 1830. Died October 6, 1908. 



Major-General C. F. CocKBtJKiir, R.A., joined the Army on 

 December 19, 1849. He served in Canada, the Crimea (including the 

 siege and fall of Sebastopol), Gibraltar, and Halifax (Nova Scotia). 

 He was at the Royal Small Arms Factory, Solinger, Pi'ussia, from 

 1859 to 1862, and was Assistant Superintendent at the Birmingham 

 Factory for five years. He was the fifth generation of his family in 

 the Army and the fourth in the Royal Artillery. 



General Cockburn was an enthusiastic collector of fossils, especially 

 from the Chalk, and immediately after the fall of Sebastopol employed 

 any spare time he had in making a collection of Danian and other 

 fossils from that region. His collection was described by ~W. H. Baily ' 

 in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol. xiv, 1858, 

 and the types formerly in the Museum of Practical Geology are now 

 in the British Museum. As this was one of the pioneer collections, 

 its importance was such as to necessitate a visit from Dr. Karakasch 

 only this year, and this geologist had the pleasure of meeting 

 General Cockburn at Dover during his visit. Baily's paper was 

 supplemented by a few pages of stratigraphical notes from the 

 General's pen. During the years he collected, General Cockburn 

 supplied many workers with valuable material from the Chalk, and 



