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Forbes, from an examination of the Mollusca, and by Prof. Haeckel 
after studying the Radiolaria, gave his reasons for supposing that it 
is in reality more modern than these authors supposed, and may be 
referred to the Pliocene or Pleistocene. 
Though Cystechinus crassus possessed plates of greater thickness 
than those of the previously described species, the ambulacra were 
apetaloid, and the author concluded that though an inhabitant of 
seas of less depth than those in which the modern forms occur, it 
may be fairly considered to have been a dweller in deep seas, and 
to indicate that the Radiolarian deposit is a true deep-sea ooze. 
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A PALAONTOLOGICAL RECORD. 
Str,—Now that Paleontology has become so complex a science, and 
new species are from day to day described in various parts of the 
world, is it not desirable that some International Record of them 
should be published at stated intervals? 
We would suggest that the matter be taken up by the Inter- 
national Geological Congress; and if this be adopted, every one who 
describes a new species of fossil should send in the name and full 
references to the work in which it was published and figured, with 
accounts of the locality, geological horizon and biological order of 
the species. 
In this way we should have an authentic register of new species, 
that would be of great value to all students of Paleontology; and, 
in short, “facilitate the preparation of that general list of all 
described fossils which is at present one of the greatest desiderata 
in geological science.” ! RupoiF ScHAFER. 
Horace B. Woopwarp. 
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HENRY WILLIAM BRISTOW, F.R.S., F.G.S., 
Late Director of the Geological Survey of England and Wales. 
Born, May 17, 1817. Diep, June 14, 1889. 
HE name of H. W. Bristow will always be associated with the 
history of the Geological Survey, on which he served for a 
period of forty-six years. During the first few years of the official 
existence of the Survey, De la Beche had to depend to a large 
extent on voluntary or temporary assistance, but gradually he 
gathered around him a permanent staff of field-geologists and of 
others occupied in museum-work. Among those attached to the 
Survey in these early days were John Phillips, Ramsay and Aveline. 
In 1842 Mr. Bristow, then nearly twenty-five years of age, was 
appointed an Assistant Geologist, and during the next few years 
[Sir Warington | Smyth, Baily, Edward Forbes, Jukes, Selwyn and 
others joined the staff, whose headquarters were then situated in 
Craig’s Court. 
1 See Address to the Geol. Soc, 1889, by W. T. Blanford. 
