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foreign sovereigns in recognition of his scientific work. In 1886 he 

 received the decoration of C.M.G. from Her Majesty, and was 

 created a Knight Commander of the Order in 1891. He has also 

 received the Emperor of Austria's great gold medal for Arts and 

 Sciences, the Miirchison Medal from the Geological Society of 

 London, and other similar distinctions. He was elected one of the 

 few (only thirty subjects of the Queen being eligible) Honorary 

 Members of the Philosophical Society. He was an Honorary active 

 Member of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, and 

 Honorary Fellow and Member of many other British and Foreign 

 scientific bodies.^ 



The following is a list of the titles of Professor Sir Frederick 

 McCoy's separate and smaller contributions to Natural Science ; his 

 larger works have already been mentioned in this Memoir : — 



1. " Eemarks on Mr. Ey ton's Arrangement of the Gulls": Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. ii (1838), pp. 487-490. 



2. " On a new Genus of Entomostraca [Entomoeonchus Scouleri) " : Dublin Geol. 

 Soc. Journ., vol. ii (1839), pp. 91-94. 



3. "On some new or rare Fish {Trigla Blochii, Coitus Grcenlandicus, Thynnus 

 Felamys) occurring on the Coast of Ireland": Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. vi (1841), 

 pp. 402-8. 



4. "Contributions to the Fauna of Ireland {Vespertilio Nattereri, Tringa. 

 rufescens, Sterna leucoptera, Syrinx Forbesii, S. tenuicinctus) " : ibid., vol. xv 

 (1845), pp. 270-4. 



5. " Note on the Irish Species of Cephaloptera (Pterocephala) " : ibid., vol. xix 

 (1847), pp. 176-8. _ 



6. " On the FossU Botany and Zoology of the Eocks associated with the Coal of 

 Australia" : ibid., vol. xx (1847), pp. 145-157, 226-236, 298-312. 



7. "On the Plants of the New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Coalfields " : 

 Brit. Assoc. Eep., 1847, pt. ii, pp. 64, 65. 



8. "On some new Fossil Fish of the Carboniferous Period " : Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. ii (1848), pp. 1-10, 115-133. 



9. " Eeply to Sir Philip Egerton's Letter on the Placodermi " : ibid., vol. ii 

 (1848), pp. 277-280. 



10. "On some new Ichthyolites from the Scotch Old Eed Sandstone" : ibid.^ 

 vol. ii (1848), pp. 297-312. 



11. " On some new Mesozoic Eadiata " : ibid., vol. ii (1848), pp. 397-420. 



12. " On some new Genera and Species of Palaeozoic Corals and Foraminifera " : 

 ibid., vol. iii (1849), pp. 1-20, 119-136. 



13. " Eeply to Sir Philip Egerton's Letter on the Tail of Diplopferus " : ibid., 

 vol. iii (1849), pp. 139-140. 



14. " Eeply to Professor Owen's Letter on the Ganoine of some Fish Teeth" ; 

 ibid., vol. iii (1849), pp. 140-1. _ 



15. " On some new Palteozoic Echinodermata {Cadaster, n.g., Ferischodomus, 

 n.g.) " : ibid., vol. iii (1849), pp. 244-254. 



16. "On the Classification of some British Fossil Crustacea, with Notices of New 

 Forms in the University Collection at Cambridge " : ibid., vol. iv (1849), pp. 161- 

 179, 330-5, 392-414. 



17. "On some new Genera and Species of Silurian Eadiata in the Collection of the 

 University of Cambridge " : ibid., vol. vi_(1850), pp. 270-290. 



18. " Descriptions of three new Devonian Zoophytes — Stromatopora {Caunopora) 

 verticillata, Alveolites vermicularis, Strephodeu gracilis " : ibid., vol. vi (1850), 

 pp. 377-8. 



19. "On some new Silurian Eadiata [Strephodes pseiidoceratites. St. troehiformis, 

 Ccenites strigatus, Falceophora subtilis, Retepora Sisingeri) " : ibid., vol. vi (1850), 

 pp. 474-7. 



20. " On some new Silurian MoUusca {Poterioceras elUpticum, Fhragmoceras 



^ Chiefly derived from " Men and "Women of the Time," 14th edition, 1895. 



