96 Miscellaneous — Retirement of Dr. B. N. Peach, F.R.S. 



Highlands. In particular, the detailed work in the complicated 

 region in the west of Sutherland and Koss was carried out under his 

 immediate supervision. It is within the mark to state that no 

 geologist has acquired such a thorough mastery of the details of 

 Scottish geology, exclusive of the rocks of Secondary and Tertiary age. 



In 1879, after Mr. Etheridge, jun., had joined the geological 

 department of the British Museum under Dr. H. Woodward, F.R.S., 

 Dr. Peach, in addition to his field duties, was appointed Acting 

 Paljeontologist on the Scottish staff. He was thus furnished with 

 opportunities which he long had in view. He devoted special 

 attention to the Palasozoic Arthropoda, and in addition to his purely 

 official work he published papers in the Transactions of the Royal 

 Society, Edinburgh, the Geological Society, London, and the Eoyal 

 Physical Society, Edinburgh. Among these papers we may par- 

 ticularly mention those dealing with the fossil Scorpions of the 

 Carboniferous and Silurian rocks of Scotland, and with the fauna 

 of the Olenellus-zone of the North-West Highlands. But the 

 incessant demands of field work prevented him from carrying out 

 his investigations as fully as he had hoped. At present there are 

 about 2,000 specimens of the higher Crustacea of the Carboniferous 

 rocks of Scotland in the Geological Survey collections, some of 

 which have been figured and described by Dr. Peach. But many 

 new forms are still undescribed, and in the interests of Scottish 

 geology it is to be hoped that an arrangement will be made whereby 

 he will be enabled to complete this research. 



In recognition of his eminent services to Scottish geology, of the 

 assistance which he has generously rendered to other investigators, 

 of his inspiring influence on the younger members of the Survey 

 staff with whom he came in contact, his many friends have resolved 

 to present him with a substantial testimonial, towards which about 

 £100 has been already subscribed. This testimonial will be pre- 

 sented to Dr. Peach at a public dinner to be held in Edinburgh on 

 March 30th, 1906. 



Corrigenda. — We have been requested to state that, in the article 

 on Professor T. McKenny Hughes in the January number, in the 

 list of distinguished students. Miss Elles should have been described 

 as " Assistant Demonstrator in the Geological Museum," instead of 

 " Assistant to the Woodwardian Professor," Mr. F. R. C. Reed 

 having held the latter post since 1892. The degree of D.Sc. held 

 by Miss Elles was conferred upon her by the University of Dublin in 

 July last, and upon Miss Wood by the University of Birmingham at 

 the same date. No doubt the University of Cambridge will, in time, 

 become equally liberal in conferring degrees upon women. — Edit. 

 Geol. Mag. 



Erratum. — Mr. C. Davies Sherborn writes : — Please correct 

 a misprint in Geol. Mag., January, 1906, p. 34, nine lines fron^ 

 bottom; I refer there to Nereitojpsis (the worm), after Hereis, not to 

 Neritopsis (the mollusc). 



