142 Obituary — George Henry Kinahan. 



Mr. Jukes-Browne has pointed out that the solution theory requires 

 (1) a previous series of valleys formed in the claj', which has now 

 largely disappeared, by ruechanical surface action, of which series we 

 might expect to find traces; (2) that there should be some indication 

 in the present valleys, supposed to be due to solution, of two sets of 

 joints in the limestones. 



I have endeavoured to point out that we find both of these require- 

 ments in the Evenlode-Glyme area. C. N. Bromehead. 



University Museum, Oxford. 

 January 19, 1909. 



GEORGE HENRY KINAHAN, M.R.I. A. 



Born December 19, 1829. Died December 5, 1908. 



(PLATE V.) 



We regret to record the death at Fairview, Dublin, in his 79th 

 year, of G. H. Kinahan, one of the most distinguished of Irish 

 geologists. The son of Daniel Kinahan, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, he 

 was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and having qualified as 

 a civil engineer, in 1853 he had conferred on him the Diploma in 

 Engineering of the University. His first professional engagement 

 was on the staff employed on the viaduct which spans the Valley of 

 the Boyne at the harbour of Drogheda, on behalf of the Dublin and 

 Belfast Junction Uailway Company, now merged in the Great Xorthern 

 Kailway. Sir John Macneill and James Barton were the chief 

 engineers. This lattice -bridge was the second of its kind built in 

 Ireland. In 1854 Kinahan was appointed to the Irish Branch of the 

 Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, under Sir Boderick I. 

 Murchison, K.C.B., Director-General, Professor J. Beete Jukes being 

 then the Local Director for Ireland. He was promoted Senior 

 Geologist in 1861, District Surveyor in 1869, and retired after thirty- 

 six years service in 1890. His official work extended to almost every 

 county in Ireland, and his name appears on twenty-six of the official 

 " Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Ireland ". He was a voluminous 

 writer from the time he joined the Survey. His contributions to the 

 Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin (afterwards the Eoyal 

 Geological Society of Ireland) extend from 1859 to 1889, articles from 

 his pen appearing in every volume during these years ; and he 

 delivered as President the Anniversary Addresses in 1880 and 1881 

 before that Society. He was a member of the Council of the Boyal 

 Irish Academy and a contributor to its Proceedings. 



As an archaeologist he contributed many papers on Crannoges, 

 Megalithic monuments, and other cognate subjects to the Kilkenny 

 and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society and to the Boj^al 

 Historical and Archfeological Association of Ireland. Other papers 

 by him were published by the Geological Societies in Edinburgh, 

 Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow ; by the Institute of Civil 

 Engineers, Ireland, and the Jforth of England Institute of Mining and 

 Mechanical Engineers. The British Association, of which for many 

 years he was one of the General Committee, received his last written 

 article for the 1908 meeting in Dublin, on the " Baised Beaches of the 



