384 Chituary — The Rev. B. Siinter. 



" Fossil Teetli and Bones of Eeptiles from Central India " (op. cit. 

 1864, XX, p. 117 and pp. 280-282). 



The fossil plants collected by them from Nagpur were described 

 by Sir Charles J. F. Bunbury, in the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 

 1861, xvii, pp. 325-346, plates viii-xii. A Labyrinthodont reptile 

 (named JBrachyops laticeps) was desci'ibed by Professor Owen from 

 Naojpur (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1855, vol. xi, pp. 37-39, pi. ii ; 

 1859, XV, p. 647; and 1861, xvii, p. 353). Professor T. Rupert 

 Jones described the Fossil Cvpridee from Nagpur (Quart. Journ. 

 Geol. Soc. 1860, vol. xvi, pp. 186, 187, 189, pi. x). 



" Hislopite," anew mineral, was designated after his friend by the 

 Eev. Prof. Haughton (op. cit. 1860, vol. xvi, p. 160), and " Hunterite " 

 by the same author, after Dr. Robert Hunter. 



The effects of a tropical climate, howevei*, began to tell upon 

 Mr. Hunter's constitution, and in 1855 his health completely broke 

 down, and he was ordered to start at once for Europe. Thus the 

 personal association of these two ardent Scottish geologists and 

 naturalists in India terminated, but their warm friendship continued 

 mitil severed by the sad death of the Rev. S. Hislop, by drowning, on 

 September 4, 1863, about twenty miles from Nagpur, in attempting 

 to cross a river in flood after dark, when, only in his 46th year. 



Dr. Hunter continued to carry on the work of the Free Church 

 Missions, preaching on behalf of the cause for India at home. He 

 suffered the loss of a brother, also engaged in the missionary cause, 

 with his wife and child, who were killed during the Indian Mutiny. 



Taking up literature, the Rev. R. Hunter wrote for the British 

 and Foreign Evangelical Review, and brought out in 1863 his 

 " History of India." For two years he held the office of resident 

 tutor in the Theological College of the Presbyterian Church in 

 London, but resigned in 1866, in order to enjoy greater freedom in 

 preaching and in the pursuit of his literary work. His contributions 

 to the magazines were at one time most varied and prolific, but his 

 " colossal work," as Sir Richard Owen called it, was the bringing 

 out for Cassell & Co. the " Encyclopaedic Dictionary," upon which 

 he spent seventeen years of his life ; the first seven years working 

 entirely alone, but afterwards with assistance. This was followed 

 by a manual of the Bible. He did splendid work with schools and 

 a church at the Victoria Docks, the latter built for him by Mr. James 

 Duncan. He was elected an F.G.S. in 1868, and the Senatus of 

 Aberdeen University, in 1883, conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. 



Those who (like the writer) had the good fortune to know the 

 Rev. Dr. Hunter personally, must have been struck by his extreme 

 modesty and simplicity of character, and his amiable and unselfish 

 nature. Yet beneath this unassuming and retiring exterior there lay 

 vast stores of learning which were at anyone's command who might 

 ask his help. 



He has bequeathed by his will a sum to be devoted to the working 

 out and publishing descriptions and figures of the fossil plant-remains 

 collected by him, and by his friend the Rev. S. Hislop, in Nagpur, 

 Central India. — (Partly from The Presbyterian, Sept. 15, 1893, and 

 March 4, 1897.— H. W.) 



