D): J. J. Harris Teal/, 3LA., F.E.S. 5 



into an extension of the Museum and in part into a consulting room, 

 in connexion with the Library, where maps can be spread out and 

 examined. Instructive geological models of the Isle of Purbeck and 

 of Assynt have been prepared and placed in the Museum. Exhibits 

 have also been introduced to illustrate new Geological Survey Memoirs 

 and Maps by means of specimens and photographs from the area 

 described. The photographic work, especially in England and Wales, 

 has been greatly amplified. 



There was a time, so we have been told, before Mr. Teall had been 

 appointed Director, and while his attention was absorbed to a large 

 extent by Highland schists and various altered igneous rocks, when 

 he would not look at a fossil. As Director his attitude in this respect 

 became greatly modified. The zonal work carried on in the Chalk 

 by Dr. Rowe, and in Carboniferous strata by Dr. Kidston and 

 Dr. Vaughan, stirred his enthusiasm. He has also given practical 

 proof of his interest in palaeontology by starting a series of monographs, 

 the first of which, by Dr. Peach, on Scottish Carboniferous Schizopods, 

 has just appeared. Although Mr. Teall was not brought up to official 

 routine, few men could have entered with more zeal than he did upon 

 the duties of a Director, or discliarged the ofttimes arduous duties 

 with more success in the interests of the public service and of the 

 Geological Survey in particular, a fact to which the above remarks 

 on the progress of the Institution sufficiently testify. 



Mr. Teall, who had been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society 

 in 1873, was chosen a Member of Council in 1884, he served as 

 Secretary from 1893 to 1897, and was elected President in 1900. 

 Here his firmness and courtesy, combined with his businesslike 

 habits, made him an excellent chairman. He was also President of 

 the Geologists' Association during the years 1898 to 1900, and President 

 of Section C of the British Association at Nottingham in 1893. He 

 was elected a Fellow of the Pvoyal Society in 1890, served on the 

 Council in 1899-1901, and was a Vice-President during the latter part 

 of the time. He was awarded the Bigsby Medal by the Geological 

 Society in 1889, and received their highest honour, the Wollaston 

 Medal, in 1905. The Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1907 awarded 

 to him the Delesse Prize for his researches in Petrography. Other 

 marks of appreciation have been conferred in the degrees of D.Sc. 

 Dublin 1904, Sc.D. Cambridge 1905, and D.Sc. Oxford 1908. 



LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIOXS. 

 A. Unofficial. 



1875. " The Pottoii aucl Wicken Phosphatic Deposits " : 8vo; pp. 44; Cambridge. 



1879. "A Description of the Microscopic Structure of the Pitohstone from the 



Scuir of Eigg" : Midland Nat., vol. ii, pp. 107-8. 



1880. "The Pennine Chain": Geol. Mao., Dec. II, Vol. VII, pp. 92-3 and 



o31 (reply to Professor Hull). 

 " Influence of Earth Movements on the Geological Structure of the Britisl^ 



Isles": ibid., pp. 349-57. 

 "A Criticism of Dr. CroU's Molecular Theory of Glacier Motion" ; 8vo j 



pp. 12; London and Nottingham. 

 " Origin of the Rocks and Scenery of North Wales " : Midland Nat., vol. iii, 



pp. 214-19, 237-41, 266-9. 



