336 Obituary — Lester Frank Ward. 



quartz); vol, vii, pt. ii, pp. 1-20, 1906 (depcribin<2; a remarkable 

 conglomerate in the schists between Birur and Tarikere); vol. viii, 

 pp. 31-72, 1907 (iron-bearing rocks associated with charnockite) ; 

 vol. ix, pp. 35-72, 1908 (banded magnetite quartzites). He also 

 reported to the Government on various metalliferous deposits and 

 building stones. 



On the morning of his death, Mr. Slater was at a short distance 

 from his camp near Tirthahalli, in the Shimoga District, when he 

 trod upon a large snake, which coiled itself round his boot and bit 

 him repeatedly under the knee through stout cord breeches. Death 

 took place some twelve hours later. Mr. Slater leaves a widow and 

 three young children. J. W. E. 



LESTER FRANK WARD, A.M., LL.D. 

 We learn from Nature that Dr. Lester Frank Ward, A.M., LL.D., 

 Professor of Sociology at Brown University, Providence, R.I., and 

 formerly Palaeontologist of the U.S. Geological Survey, died in 

 Washington on April 18, in his 72nd year. He was born in 1841 

 at Joliet, Illinois, and was known to geologists more especially by 

 his researches on tlie Flora of the Laramie Group, which he regarded 

 as having equally Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary affinities. 



ERNST ANTON LEOPOLD KITTL. 

 Born December 2, 1854. Died May 1, 1913. 



The death is announced of Professor Ernst Kittl, who was for 

 many years associated with the geological and palaeontological 

 department of the Imperial Court Natural History Museum of Vienna, 

 finst as assistant and ultimately as director. In 1885 he published 

 two papers on the Lower Pliocene Mammalia of Maragha, Persia, and 

 during subsequent years he prepared numerous other importMUt 

 papers on fossils, chiefly MoUusca. He also wrote a Guide Book to 

 the Geology of the Salzkainmergut, for the use of the International 

 Geological Congress which met in Vienna in 1903. 



WILLIAM FOX, M.INST.C. E. 

 We regret to record the death on June 14, aged 66, of William Fox, 

 M.Inst. C.E., M. Inst. Mech.E., an eminent waterworks engineer, 

 whose labours naturally brought him into association with various 

 geological problems. For many years he was a Fellow of the 

 Geological Society, but had recently resigned. 



Di^ISOEXjL.A.nsrEOTJS. 



Mr. Charles Panzetta Chatwin, of the Geological Department 

 of the Biitish Museum (Natural History), has been appointed 

 Assistant Librarian to the Geological Society of London. Mr. Chatwin 

 carries with him the cordial wishes of his friends, who feel that his 

 many qualifications will in time allow him to settle down into a long 

 career of usefulness to the Fellows of the Society. 



