48 Obituaries — Sir A. C. Ratnmy — Dr. F. von Roemer. 



History pursuits, and more lately to paleeontology, paying especial 

 attention to the fossils of the Skiddaw Slates, which he collected 

 with great diligence and care, accumulating in time a very fine series 

 of these rare Ordovician treasures. Mr. Dover was elected a Fellow 

 of the Geological Society in 1880, and a member of the Geologists' 

 Association in 1881, taking part in the Lake-District long-excursion 

 of the latter body in that year, as one of its directors. In 1890 Mr. 

 Dover presented his fine collection of Skiddaw Slate Fossils to the 

 Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge, where it forms a most valuable 

 contribution to our knowledge of the Geology and Fauna of the Lake- 

 District rocks. 



SIR ANDREW CROMBIE RAMSAY, Knt., 



LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 

 Born 1814. Died December 9th, 1891. 



We regret to record the death of Sir Andrew Eamsay, late 

 Director-General of the Geological Survey, which occurred at his 

 residence, Baumaris, Anglesey, Dec. 9th, 1891, in his 77th year. 



He was educated at Glasgow, and was appointed to the Geological 

 Survey of England and Wales in 1841, and became Local Director 

 in 1845. He was nominated Professor of Geology at University 

 College in 1848, Lecturer on Geology at the Eoyal School of Mines 

 in 1851, and was President of the Geological Society in 1862 and 

 1863. He was elected a F.E.S. in 1849, and Knight of the Order 

 of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus in 1862, and was elected an 

 honorary LL.D. of Edinburgh in 1866. He received the Wollaston 

 Gold Medal from the Geological Sociey in 1871. On the death 

 of Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart., he was made Director- 

 General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, and of 

 the Museum of Practical Geology in 1872. On his retirement from 

 these offices in 1881, he received the honour of Knighthood, He 

 presided over the meeting of the British Association at Swansea 

 in August, 1880. He was an Associate of many foreign societies. 

 Sir Andrew Ramsay is author of "The Geology of Arran," "Geology 

 of North Wales," 1858, 2nd edition 1881 ; "Old Glaciers of North 

 Wales and Switzerland," 1860 ; the " Physical Geology of Great 

 Britain," 1878 ; and of very many memoirs, chiefly on theoretical 

 geology. 



His life and portrait appeared in the Geological Magazine for 

 1882, Decade II. Vol. IX. pp. 289-293. 



Dr. Ferdinand von Roemer, Professor of Geology and Palfeon- 

 tology in the University of Breslau, whose Jubilee as Professor it 

 was intended to celebrate on 10th May, 1892, died at Breslau, on 

 the 14th December, 1891, in his seventy-fourth year. Dr. Roemer 

 was elected a Foreign Member of the Geological Society in 1859, 

 and was awarded the Murchison Medal in 1885. We shall give a 

 notice of this distinguished Geologist in the February Number. — 

 Edit. Geol. Mag. 



