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finest and rarest things by taking home with me portions of broken 

 and badly damaged specimens of larger species and examining their 

 contents at leisure. Very often, too, I found extremely fine and 

 interesting fossils in the interior of Mesozoic and Palaeozoic shells, 

 in the moulds or casts of the living or body-chambers of Ammonites 

 and other Cephalopoda, whose preceding chambers sometimes 

 had completely disappeared. Dr. Krause described a complete 

 specimen of a crab, Glyphcea leionoton, found in the living chamber 

 of an Ammonites gigas from our Portland Beds (Zeitschrift Deutsch. 

 Geol. Ges., xliii, p. 194:, pi. x, fig. 1), and I got only last summer 

 a very fine complete specimen of ^ger, n.sp. (?), with the antennse 

 preserved, in the living chamber of a large Stephanoceras from our 

 Middle Jurassic beds. I therefore cannot agree with the view 

 expressed in the English edition of Zittel's Textbook of Palseontology 

 (translated and edited by C. R. Eastman, p. 658), that "some of 

 these bodies (viz., Cardiocaris, Pholadocaris, and Spatliiocaris) , 

 which have been found in the living chamber of Goniatites 

 ((t. intumescens) , have imdoiibtedly served as opercula or aptijclii of 

 these Cejjhalopods.^' 1 may add that they are not commonly found 

 there, and if there, as usual together with specimens of Orthoceras, 

 Cardiola, small Goniatites, Entomis, and other fossils, certainly have 

 nothing to do with the organisation of Goniatites intumescens, but 

 only happen to occur associated with it in the same rock. 



A. VON KOENEN. 



Royal Geological Museum and 



University of Gottingen, Germany. 



(d:bxtjjj^:ri^. 



JOHN GEORGE GOODCHILD, F.G.S. 



Born May 26, 1844. Died February 21, 1906. 



It is with much regret we have to record the death of a valued 

 member of the Geological Survey of Scotland, who for some years 

 had filled the office of Curator of the Geological Survey Collections 

 in the Eoyal Scottish Museum, and who died in Edinburgh on the 

 21st February after a lingering illness. Born near London on 

 26th May, 1844, he joined the Geological Survey in 1867, and for 

 many years was engaged in mapping areas in the north of England, 

 particularly in the neighbourhood of the Lake District. Thereafter 

 he was removed to the Survey Office in Jermyn Street, London, and 

 in 1887 was transferred to Scotland, where he was placed in charge 

 of the collections obtained by the Scottish staff, and deposited in the 

 Eoyal Scottish Museum, an appointment for which he was specially 

 adapted. In recent years he had charge of the Scottish Mineral 

 Collection in the same museum, which led him to devote a large 

 amount of time to the special study of mineralog}'. Gifted with 

 remarkable fluency and lucidity of exposition, he became widely 

 known as a successful lecturer on geology. During 1884, 1885, and 

 1886, he gave courses of lectures on physical geography, geology, 



