432 Miscellaneous. 



For the next 20 years communications from his pen, in every case the result of 

 wide-spread observation and much patient thought, appeared in rapid succession 

 in the pages of this and other scientific societies. The titles of no fewer than 55 

 separate papers by Mr. Henwood are given in the Catalogue of Scientific Papers 

 published by the Koyal Society, and a still longer list appears in the Bibliotheca 

 Cornubiensis. 



The whole of the fifth volume of the Transactions of the Geological Society 

 of Cornwall was in 1843 devoted to Mr. Henwood's observations " On the Metalli- 

 ferous Deposits of Cornwall and Devon" (512 pp. and 125 plates and tables). In 

 1871 the same Society devoted their eighth volume to the publication of Mr. Hen- 

 wood's Observations on Foreign and Metalliferous Deposits, a volume even bulkier 

 than its predecessor. 



In 1832 Mr. Henwood was selected as Assay Master and Supervisor of Tin in the 

 Duchy of Cornwall, an office which he held until the coinage duties were abolished 

 in 1838, when he retired on a pension. In 1837 the Institution of Civil Engineers 

 awarded him the Telford Medal for his paper on Pumping-engines in Cornish Mines. 

 In 1840 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1843 he went to Brazil 

 to take charge of the Gongo Soco Mines. From Brazil he repaired to India in 

 1855, to report on the metalliferous deposits of Kumaon and Gurhwal in North- 

 Western India. 



He finally retired from active life in 1858, spending his latter years in Penzance. 

 In 1869 he was elected President of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, to which he 

 communicated numerous papers and addresses. 



So lately as the present year he was presented with the Murchison Medal by the 

 Council of the Geological Society of London. 



He died on the 5th August in his seventy-first year, highly esteemed by all who 

 knew him. Cornishmen may well be proud to claim him as one of their own 

 countrymen. 1 



IiyniSCIEILXi-A-IEsrZEOTTS. 



Mr. William Davies, British Museum. — It will be a source of 

 unfeigned satisfaction to all geologists to learn that Mr. William 

 Davies, who has devoted more than thirty years of his life to the 

 service of the Trustees in the Geological Department of the British 

 Museum, has at length been appointed an Assistant, and will hence- 

 forward occupy a recognized position in this scientific Department. 

 It will not be forgotten that Mr. Davies was awarded the first Mur- 

 chison Medal by the Council of the Geological Society, in 1873, in 

 recognition of his valuable services to Palaeontological Science. 

 Those who are acquainted with Fossil Fishes will be able to testify to 

 his great knowledge of this group, which has rendered this part of 

 the National collection especially perfect. His labours in reconstruct- 

 ing the Fossil Mammalia of the Pleistocene Brick-earths of the Thames 

 Valley, and his Catalogue of the fine series of specimens from these 

 beds, collected by Sir Antonio Brady, F.G.S., and recently acquired 

 for the British Museum, attest his extensive practical acquaintance 

 with comparative anatomy. We trust his life may be prolonged 

 and his services continued for many years to come, to his own honour 

 and for the good of science. 



1 Drawn up and abstracted from an elaborate memoir kindly sent by W. Prideaux 

 Courtney, Esq., to the Editor. 



