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journal of the Kilkenny ArcliEeological Society. However, it was 

 intended to publish a full account, but the death of the proprietor, 

 Mr. Nappen, of Loughern, delayed it, and now it is to be hoped that 

 the lamented and early death of Mr. Du Noyer will not deprive the 

 archaeological world of this treat. Of late years he had paid par- 

 ticular attention to the Megalithic structures known by the general 

 name of Cromlechs, and was publishing in the Journal of the 

 Historical and Archseological Association of Ireland an interesting 

 and most instructive series of papers showing their mode of con- 

 struction and their uses. 



The principle ofiicial geological publications with which Mr. Du 

 No^'^er was connected, are as follows :— Forty-eight sheets of the 

 Map of Ireland, with seventeen memoirs. Of the latter, those call- 

 ing for special notice are the explanations to accompany sheets 102 

 and 112 ; sheets 160, 161, and 172 ; sheets 167, 168, 178, and 179 ; 

 sheet 184: ; also sheets 185, 186. The two last memoirs illustrate 

 the parts of Cork and Kerry in the neighbourhood of the far-famed 

 lakes of Killamey, they being enriched by thirteen of the author's 

 sketches — all so spirited, that it is impossible to say which is the 

 best, besides numerous maps and diagrams. The first of those 

 enumerated above illustrates parts of the counties of Dublin and 

 Meatli ; the second, the Dingle promontory in the county of Kerry, 

 and the third, parts of the counties of Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny, 

 and Tipperaiy. To the last two, we would draw particular attention, 

 more especially on account of the sketches, which for truthfullness 

 and artistic skill will be rivalled in few, if any, geological works, 

 and the loss of whose author will, we fear, subtract not a little from 

 the beauty and interest of the future memoirs of the Geological 

 Survey of Ireland. 



Mr. Du Noyer was of French extraction, he being the lineal 

 descendant of the Chevalier du Noyer, his ancestors having come to 

 Ireland as refugees. He was a Eoyal Arch Mason, having been 

 initiated into that ancient order under the warrant of the Clonmel 

 Lodge. By his death the post of District Surveyor of the G-eological 

 Survey of Ireland is vacant. In the middle of December he delivered 

 interesting and instructive lectures to the inhabitants of Belfast. 

 At the first meetings in this year both the members of the Eoyal 

 Irish Academy and of the Eoyal Geological Society of Ireland had 

 to lament the loss of one of their most eminent fellows, and — to 

 many — of an intimate friend. At the meeting of each of these Societies 

 his extreme private worth and his valuable services to his adoj^ted 

 country were mentioned, and resolutions were passed that the 

 influences of the Societies should be used, in the hope that his long 

 and faithful services may be recognised by Her Majesty's Govern- 

 ment granting a pension to his widow. We heartily join in the 

 hope that the influence of these Societies may not be exerted in 

 vain.— G.H.K. 



James Davtd Forbes, D.C.L., LL.D., F.E.S.L. & E., F.G.S., 

 Principal of St. Salvator's and St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews, 



