94 Obituary — G. V. Du IS oyer. 



F.E.G.S.I., etc. etc. ; District Surveyor of H.M. Geological Survey 

 of Ireland. This gentleman's name is well known in connection 

 with not only the Geology but also the Archeeology of Ireland; and 

 there is scarcely a work that has been published within the last 

 quarter of a century on either of these subjects in which Ireland is 

 mentioned but his name appears. About thirty years ago, when still 

 quite a boy, he was appointed to the Geological Branch of the 

 Ordinance Survey of Ireland, then commenced under the super- 

 intendance of the late General Portlock. After that branch was 

 given up he served for some time on the Arch^ological Section of 

 the same service under the great Petrie, and subsequently, when the 

 Geological Survey of the United Kingdom was resumed under the 

 superintendence of the late Sir Henry de la Beche, he again joined 

 the Irish branch of that sei'vice, and continued on it until his sudden 

 and regretted early death by scarlet fever after four days' illness. 

 Mr. Du Noyer, on account of his long period of service, was more 

 or less acquainted Avith the whole of Ireland, and has enriched many 

 of the Memoirs of the Survey with his spirited Geological Sketches. 

 They will also be found in "Murchison's Siluria," "Jukes' Manual," 

 "Jukes' Popular Geology," and many other works on the same 

 subject; while Griffith's and M'Coy's Palajontological Plates owe 

 much to his pencil. Formerly he published many valuable and 

 interesting papers in the Proceedings of the Eoyal Irish Academy, 

 the Proceedings of the Dublin Geological Society, the Geologist, etc. ; 

 but of late years he has altogether confined himself to writing for 

 the Memoirs of the Government Survey, save a few short papers 

 read before the Eoj^al Geological Society of Ireland and the 

 Geological Society of London. 



While engaged in the geological examination of Ireland, a love of 

 archgeology having been imbibed during his early life with Petrie, 

 he studied and sketched the ancient structures both historic and pre- 

 historic, and has established for himself a lasting monument in 

 TAe Du Noyer Sketches. These consist of six large volumes of original 

 drawings, which he presented to the Eoyal Irish Academy, and for 

 this generous and patriotic act he was presented with its life mem- 

 bership. He was also one of the original members of the " Kil- 

 kenny Archselogical Society," now the " Historical and Archgeological 

 Association of Ireland," and at the time of his death was their pro- 

 vincial Honorary Secretary for the province of Ulster. During his 

 geological researches in the Dingle promontory, he discovered the 

 pre-historic city of Paha, of which he made elaborate drawings and 

 plans illustrative of its cahers, raths, cloghauns, etc. Subsequently he 

 wrote an account of them and read it before the British Association 

 at their last meeting in Dublin, which afterwards was published by 

 the Archeeological Society of London. While in the county of Meath, 

 he superintended the opening of the pre-historic cams Je Danaan at 

 Lough Crew, and made minute drawings of the numerous archaic 

 Bculptiu'es that covered the sides and pillars of the internal chambers 

 of these ancient tombs. Of this discovery, only a short notice, with 

 a few of the most characteristic sketches was published in the 



