576 Obituary — W. J. Harrison. 



well-preserved belemnites of the lanceolatus type, both these fossils 

 occurring literally in hundreds in the drift. We have recently 

 obtained two specimens of black flint in which these particular 

 belemnites are embedded, and as the sea-urchins are usually in black 

 flint, it would seem that all three are derived from an outcrop some- 

 where in the North Sea. In our lowest drifts, that is those which 

 were deposited by the first advance of the glacier, are a number of 

 green-coated black flints similar to those occurring in the Eocene 

 deposits. These had been probably lying on the floor of the sea 

 a considerable time before being taken up by the glacier. 



T. Sheppard, F.G.S. 

 Hull. 



OBITTJ-A.:R"5r_ 



WILLIAM JEROME HARRISON, F.G.S. 



Born 1845. Died June 6, 1908. 



"We regret to record the death of "VV. J. Harrison, who did much to 

 advance the progress of geological knowledge as an enthusiastic 

 teacher and local worker in the neighbourhoods of Leicester and 

 Birmingham, and also by means of bibliographic research. 



Born at Hemsworth, near Doncaster, he early qualified as a science 

 teacher, and ultimately wrote a number of elementary textbooks on 

 natural science, chemistry, and physics. A fifth edition of his useful 

 textbook of geology was issued in 1903, and he was author also of 

 " Geology of the Counties of England and of North and South Wales," 

 1882. These works, as was the case with all his publications, were 

 characterized by great care and accuracy. 



For some years Mr. Harrison was Curator of the Leicester Town 

 Museum. During this period, in 1874, he drew attention to his 

 discovery of the Ehsetic beds near Leicester, and in 1877 he issued 

 "A Sketch of the Geology of Leicestershire and Rutland," reprinted 

 from White's "History" and supplemented by twelve photographs. 



In 1880 he removed to Birmingham, where he was appointed Chief 

 Science Master under the Birmingham School Board. Here he devoted 

 much attention to the Drift deposits, and published important biblio- 

 graphies of Midland and Norfolk Glaciology, with brief notes of the 

 contents of the papers, likewise a veiy full bibliography of Stonehenge 

 and Avebury. 



[A brief memoir of W. J. Harrison, with portrait and bibliography, 

 to which we are much indebted, has been published in the Naturalist 

 for September, 1908, by Mr. T. Sheppard.] H. B. W. 



li^ISCELLJLlSrEOTJS. 



With the approval of H.M, the King, a Royal Medal has been 

 awarded by the Council of the Royal Society to Professor John Milne, 

 F.R.S., F.G.S., for his researches and investigations in Earthquake 

 Phenomena in this country and in Japan, during more than thirty 

 years. 



