584 .Ohituary—Johii Young, LL.D., F.G.8. 



by him, and he made a long list of Foraminifera from the shales and' 

 limestones. Jn particular, he published (1874) an account of the 

 discovery of the interesting- Saccammina Carteri in the " Lower 

 Limestone" Series of the Lanarkshire Coalfield and elsewhere. Of 

 the Entomostraca of his finding, many he submitted for examination 

 to his friends J. W. Kirkby and T. E. Jones, and his name was 

 frequently used by them in the nomenclature of genera and species. 

 The last instance of this friendly co-operation is in the treatment of 

 the unique specimen found by him long ago at Eobroyston, near 

 Glasgow, and determined by his two friends Eiipert Jones and 

 Henry Woodward to be a peculiar phyllopod or phyllocarid, with 

 the appellation of Chcenocaris Youngii (Monogr. Pal. Soc, 1899,- 

 p. 181, pi. xxii, figs. la-e). Directions for collecting and mounting 

 microzoa from the Carboniferous strata of West Scotland were 

 clearly given by John Young in the Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, 

 vol. ii (1867), p. 185. 



• His published papers are numerous (see the Eoyal Society's- 

 Catalogue of Scientific Papers) in the Transactions of the scientific 

 societies of Glasgow and Edinburgh, the Annals of Natural History, 

 the Geological Magazine, and the Journal of the Geological Society. 

 Many of them are joint papers, with his colleague John Young, M.D.^ 

 Keeper of the Hunterian Museum, Eobert Craig, James Armstrong,. 

 David Eobertson, D. Corse Glen, and other Glasgow geologists. 

 One of his last contributions in association with friends (Jones and 

 Kirkby) appeared in the Trans. Edinburgh Geol. Soc, vol. vir 

 (1899), treating of one of his favourite lines of research in the- 

 distribution of the Carbonifei'ous Entomostraca, especially Cnrbonia. 

 ■ The inestimable "Catalogue of the Western-Scottish Fossils," 

 published in 1876 for the use of the British Association, bears much 

 of the fruit of John Young's work, as indicated by Professor John 

 Young, M.D., in his introductory and general notes in that volume. 

 The lists of Ostracoda and Foraminifera were subsequently revised in 

 the Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, vol. ix (1891). 



. John Young was for many years an active member of the 

 Glasgow Mechanics Institute, the Glasgow Geological Society, and 

 an Associate of the Geological Society of Edinburgh ; he was- 

 elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1874 ; and 

 in 1883 was honoured with the award of the Murchison Donation 

 Fund for his long-continued and successful researches in the fossil 

 Polyzoa and in the shell- structures of other fossils. Lastljs the 

 well-deserved Honorary Degree of LL.D. was conferred on him 

 by the Glasgow University in April, 1893. 



; A man of conspicuous ability, fully appreciating the beauties of 

 Nature and successfully elucidating some of her secrets, he had 

 wonderful energy and perseverance. He was full of information, 

 and willingly gave the benefit of it to all enquirers : indeed, he 

 spread the knowledge of geology widely by his teachings in 

 Glasgow and by his many communications to various journals. 

 He was indeed one of the good old sort of North British naturalists 

 and geologists, who are now unfortunately too rapidly diminishing 

 in number. ^ T.E.J. 



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