240 Obituary—Arthur John Charles Molyneuc. 
will have done the cause of Devonian geology in this country an 
inestimable service. 
Joun W. Evans. 
IMPERIAL COLLEGE, SOUTH KENSINGTON. 
April 14, 1921. 
OBITUARY. 
Arthur John Charles Molyneux, F.G.S., F.R.G:S. 
Mr. A. J. C. Motyneux died suddenly of heart failure at 
Bulawayo on 28th December in his 55th year. Molyneux came to 
Rhodesia in the early days, being a member of the Victoria Column 
under Major Alan Wilson that occupied Matabeleland in 1893. 
After the settlement of the country he devoted himself to 
prospecting and mining, making many long expeditions into the 
outlying districts in which he discovered some of the coalfields of 
the Territory. In particular he made several traverses across the 
then little known mid-Zambesi valley from the high veld of South 
Rhodesia to that of Northern Rhodesia or in the opposite direction, 
mapping the country, taking precise geological notes, and carefully 
labelling his specimens. His maps of many of these tracts are still 
the most reliable and intelligible, since they were made by a man 
with an eye for country. : 
He was always intensely keen on the purely scientific side of his 
work. His spirit may be gauged by the fact that on one trip, when 
an expected supply of water failed him and it became necessary to 
make forced marches to save life, he threw away most of his kit, 
but kept some fossils he had found. These were the ones that first 
proved the Karroo age of the Coal-measures in the mid-Zambesi 
basin. He was the first to give an adequate explanation of the 
wonderful gorge at the Victoria Falls. 
Molyneux was earnest in his desire for the diffusion of natural 
knowledge. He called the inaugural meeting and was first secretary 
of the Rhodesia Scientific Association. He was also a member of 
the committee and one of the first trustees of the Rhodesia Museum, 
established at Bulawayo in 1901. He joined the Geological Survey 
of Southern Rhodesia in 1917, wishing to place his knowledge of the 
outlying districts at the disposal of the country, and hoping thereby 
to work out his early observations. Circumstances, however, 
demanded his services in other districts, on the geology of which 
he published a paper and two reports. 
For some years his health had not been very good, largely owing 
to the bad conditions experienced on his earlier travels. After 
joining the Geological Survey an improvement took place, but at 
the beginning of 1920 his heart began to give trouble, necessitating 
residence at sea-level for two periods. He did not long survive his 
second return to high altitudes. 
