432 Ohihiary — Professor John Milne. 



between the two species, for it may be that his A. qiiadratus is not 

 exactly what Mr. Rowe has taken to be the typical form of that 

 species. The latter informs me that he never found anything really 

 approaching his idea of A. quadratus in Sussex. Mr. Brydone may 

 have been more fortunate, but on the other hand it may be that 

 his finds would be regarded by Mr. Rowe as extreme forms of 

 A. granulatus. 



A. J. Jukes-Beowne. 



TOKQUAY. 



August 6. 



PROFESSOR JOHN MILNE, 

 D.Sc, F.E.S., P.G.S., Hon. Fellow of King's College, London. 



Born December 30, 1850. Died July 31, 1913. 



It was only in August,^ 1912, that we published in our list of 

 Eminent Living Geologists a notice of the life and work of our dear 

 friend John Milne. This August we received from Shide the sad 

 news of his decease in his 63rd year. There is little to add to the 

 record we published a short year ago. Seismographic stations extend 

 over nearly the whole globe. Each station owes its inception to 

 Professor Milne. The records which are maintained by his seismo- 

 graphs at Shide are automatically carried on as if he was still there ; 

 and after the meeting of the British Association in September it will 

 be decided where and by whom the work shall be continued as 

 a permanence. Such splendid observations cannot be allowed to 

 lapse, for they interest not one country but every land and every 

 nation. The work Professor Milne has given to the world cannot be 

 permitted to die. 



3V[:iSOEIL.31..«^ITE10"CrS. 



Me. F. p. Kendall, jun., assistant curator of the Zoological 

 Museum of the University of Sheffield, and son of Professor Kendall, 

 of Leeds University, has been appointed lecturer in zoology and 

 geology in the South-Eastern Agricultural College at Wye. 



Mr. W. G. Fearnsides, M.A., F.G.S., Fellow and lecturer in Natural 

 Sciences at Sidney Sussex College, and demonstrator in petrology in 

 the University of Cambridge, has been appointed to the Sorby Chair 

 of Geology at Sheffield. 



Trustees of the British Mdseum. — Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.B., 

 Pres. R.S. (late an ex-officio Trustee of the British Museum), was 

 elected on June 2 a member of the Standing Committee of that body 

 in place of the late Lord Avebury. 



Professor J. "W. Judd, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., has been elected by 

 the Council Emeritus Professor of Geology in the Imperial College of 

 Science and Technology. 



^ See Geol. Mag., August, 1912, pp. 337-46. 



