THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



NEW SERIES. DECADE V. VOL. III. 



No. X. — OCTOBER, 1906. 



0:EeiC3-II<r.A.L .A-XaTIOLIBS. 



I. — Eminent Living Geologists : 

 Joseph Frederick Whiteaves, LL.D., F.G.S., F.R.S. (Canada). 



Paleontologist, Zoologist, and Assistant Director, Geological Survey of Canada ; 

 Hon. Menib. Ashmolean Soc. Oxford, Yorkshire Phil. Soc, iS^at. Hist. Soc. 

 Montreal, and Hist, and Scient. Soc. Manitoba. 



(WITH A PORTEAIT, PLATE XXIII.) 



WE are glad to introduce to our readers a portrait and some 

 account of the life-work of the distinguished Palaeontologist 

 to the Geological Survey of Canada, who has now held the office for 

 thirty years. 



Dr. Whiteaves was born at Oxford on the 26th of December, 

 1835, and resided in that city until 1861. In early life his attention 

 was attracted to the pursuit of Natural History, and during the 

 years 1855 and 1856 he collected and studied the land and fresh- 

 water mollusca of the neighbourhood of his home, and communicated 

 a paper thereon to the Proceedings of the Ashmolean Society. His 

 energies were afterwards directed to geology, and during the years 

 1858 to 1860 he spent most of his time in collecting and studying 

 the Jurassic fossils, and more particularly those of the Lower and 

 Middle Oolites, of the country around Oxford. At this period the 

 present Master of Pembroke (Bishop Mitchinson), the Eev. H. H. 

 Wood, and Mr. James Parker were zealous collectors of fossils at 

 Oxford. In 1861 Dr. Whiteaves published lists of the fossils thus 

 obtained, and thereby added quite a large number of species to those 

 previously known from the Great Oolite Series and the Corallian 

 rocks. Many of the fossils upon which these lists were based were 

 exhibited at the meeting of the British Association at Oxford in 

 1860, at which Sedgwick, Lyell, and Salter were present. Several 

 of the species in these collections were then new to science. Four 

 of them, from the Corallian, were described and figured by 

 Dr. "Whiteaves in the Annals for May, 1861. Fourteen others, 

 from the Lower Oolites, were described and illustrated by the late 

 Dr. John Lycett, in 1863, in his "Supplementary Monograph on the 

 Mollusca of the Stonesfield Slate, Great Oolite, Forest Marble, and 



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