192 Miscellaneous— Prof. W. W. Watts, M.A., F.R.S. 



papers on "The Mammalian Drift of Wiltshire" (1857), " Th& 

 Bradford Clay" (1859), "Geology of Wiltshire" (1869), and 

 " Geology of the neighbourhood of Westbury Station " (1872), 

 To the Geological Society he communicated in 1850 a paper " On 

 a section of the Lower Greeusand at Seend, near Devizes" (Q.J.G.S.v 

 vi, 453), and a second paper in 1898 " On some Paleolithic 

 Implements from the Plateau-Gravels, and their evidence concerning 

 ' Eolithic ' Man " (Q. J.G.S., liv, 291). He also published in Natural 

 Science, vol. xi (1897), p. 327, a paper on "The Authenticity of 

 Plateau-Man," in which he doubted the human origin of tb& 

 ' Eolithic ' chipping. 



Mr. Cunniugton retired from Devizes many years ago and settled 

 in London. 



His collections of fossils have been placed in the British Museum 

 (Natural History), in the Museum of Practical Geology, and in the 

 Devizes Museum. 



For some of the above particulars we are indebted to " The 

 History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Depart- 

 ments of the British Museum," vol. i (1904), pp. 281-2. 



Under the title of "Fossils used as Ornaments" there is a reprint' 

 in the Geological Magazine, 1893, p. 248, of an interesting article 

 " On a Crapaudine Locket found in St. John's Churchyard, Devizes," 

 by William Cunniugton, F.G.S., of which figures are given. The 

 interest to geologists lies in the fact that the sides of the locket are 

 formed of two detached circular palatal teeth of Lepidotus maximiis. 

 Wagner =: SpJuerodiis gigas, Ag., from the Kimmeridge Clay of 

 Shotover. 



nVCISCEXiXjJ^ITIEJOTJS. 



Chair of Geology in the Eoyal College of Science, South 

 Kensington. — The President of the Board of Education has appointed 

 Professor W. W. Watts, M.A., F.R.S., of Birmingham University, to 

 the Chair of Geology at the Royal College of Science, South 

 Kensington, vacant by the retirement of Prof. Judd, C.B., F.R.S. 



In view of the changes in organisation that may be found desirable 

 in the Royal College of Science and the Royal School of Mines after 

 the consideration of the report of the Department Committee on 

 the college, it has been thought Lest to make this appointment a 

 temporary one. 



Professor Watts was a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 

 from 1888 to 1894, and a member of the Geological Survey from 

 1891 to 1897. He has acted successively as Deputy Professor of 

 Geology at Leeds, Birmingham, and Oxford. At the present time 

 he is Assistant Professor of Geology and Professor of Geography at 

 the Birmingham University, and is Secretary of the Geological 

 Society. — Standard, January 23rd, 1906. 



1 See the Wilts Archaeological Magazine, 1870, No. sxxv, p. 249. 



