6 Eminent Living Geologists — 



The first man who joined Professor Hughes' teaching staff, by 

 special invitation, was the well-known geologist Mr. Edward B. 

 Tawney. He was not a graduate of the University in the ordinary 

 sense of the term, having taken his honours and his training at the 

 Eoyal School of Mines and elsewhere. He became Professor 

 Hughes' earliest assistant in 1878. In the Academic year following 

 the University conferred on him the honorary degree of M.A. 

 {propter merita), but he did not long survive to carry on the splendid 

 work of teaching. He died in 1882 at the comparatively early age 

 of 42 ; but he accomplished much good work in his lifetime, as may 

 be seen by reference to his published papers.^ Another excellent 

 teacher, T. Roberts, M.A., followed in 1883, and continued until 

 his death in 1892, having taken up more especially the Jurassic 

 rocks as his line of research. Dr. J. E. Marr, M.A., F.R.S., Pres. 

 Geol. Soc, commenced teaching in 1879, dealing specially with the 

 older rocks, and is "Reader in Geology" in the University of 

 Cambridge. Mr. Alfred Harker, M.A., F.R.S., has also done much 

 valuable work in advancing the study of petrology, and in teaching 

 the nature of rock-structures, more especially of the igneous rocks. 

 Mr. Henry Woods, M.A., F.G.S., Lecturer on Palasozoology, deals 

 with a branch of study pursued also by Mr. F. R. Cowper Reed, 

 M.A., F.G.S. ; the latter also takes an earnest and active part in the 

 Museum arrangements. Miss G. L. EUes, D.Sc, has likewise assisted 

 the Professor of Geology as a demonstrator to his classes. 



With such advantages afforded them, what wonder then, if the 

 geologists who leave the Cambridge University are so well equipped 

 that they now mostly occupy leading positions in Museums, upon 

 Geological Survej's, and in the teaching of the science, not only at 

 home but in India and in our Colonies. Nor must it be forgotten 

 (if we except the Ashmolean Museum, opened in 1683) that 

 Cambridge had its splendid Woodwardian Museum from an earlier 

 date even than the sister University of Oxford, although, till late, 

 far too " cabin'd, cribb'd, and confin'd " for want of adequate 

 exhibition space. In 1835 it was decided by the University to build 

 a museum for geology ; and the popularity of Professor Sedgwick 

 was so great that a sum of £23,400 was readily collected by public 

 subscription, to which was added £4,000 from the Woodwardian 

 Trust Funds. Cockerell's Building was erected with the help of 

 these funds, and to the geological collection the two lower floors 

 were assigned. But this accommodation, owing to the large 

 accessions made to the geological collections, had been obviously 

 inadequate for many years past. 



On the death of Professor Sedgwick in 1873, it was decided that 

 the memorial to him should take the form of a new and larger 

 Museum ; and in that year a public subscription was opened for this 

 purpose, and a sum raised which ultimately amounted to over 

 £28,000. The public recognition of the value of geology as a subject 

 for University teaching in Cambridge has thus been demonstrated, 



, 1 Geol. Mag., 1883, pp. 140-144. 



