96 Miscellaneous. 



was the youngest son of Sir William Forbes, the seventh. Baronet of 

 Pitsligo, in the county of Aberdeen. His death has just been re- 

 corded (see Illustrated London News, Jan. 16, 1869). Principal Forbes 

 was born April 20, 1808, and was educated at the University of 

 Edinburgh, where he obtained several prizes, and where he held the 

 Professorship of Natural Philosophy from 1833 until 1860. He 

 was the author of several papers on heat, and other works on 

 Physical Science; "Travels in the Alps of Savoy," "Norway and 

 its Glaciers," "Papers on the Theory of Grlaciers," etc. He received 

 the Keith medal of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh, and the Kum- 

 ford and Eoyal medals of the Eoyal Society of London, for various 

 papers he prepared, and which were published in the Transactions 

 of those bodies. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society 

 of London in 1831, but read no papers before that Society. In 1843 

 he married Alicia, daughter of George Wauchope, Esq., of Edin- 

 burgh, and by her, who survives him, he leaves issue two sons and 

 two daughters. Principal Forbes is succeeded in the College at St. 

 Andrews by Professor J. C. Shairp, M.A. 



LiTHODOMOus Borings 667 ft. above the Sea. — Mr. Mackintosh, 

 F.G.S., who wrote on P^o?as-borings near Torquay, in this Maga- 

 zine for July, 1867, has just discovered what he believes to be 

 Lithodomous perforations up to 667 ft. above the sea on the eastern 

 side of Hampsfell, on the border of Morecambe Bay. It is with 

 great difficulty they can be detected at high altitudes, as they almost 

 invariably occur on the protected or overhanging sides of rocks or 

 boulders. It would appear that up to 250 ft. above the sea, Mr. 

 Boulton and other inhabitants of Furness have been familiar with 

 these perforations for many years, without having studied their im- 

 portance in a theoretical point of view. Though rain has made 

 numerous rougli holes ia limestone rocks, Mr. Mackintosh contends 

 that the above smoothly ground-out perforations (some of which run 

 into and through fossils, and most of which ignore the composition 

 of the rock) could not have been formed by rain, as nearly all of 

 them occur in positions to which rain could never have had access. — 

 Abridged from the Ulverstone Advertiser of Jan. 7, 1869. 



Geological Society of London. — Various changes have taken 

 place in the staff of this Society. 1. Mr. Henry M. Jenkins, F.G.S., 

 who has for the past six years so ably filled the post of Assistant 

 Secretary, has been appointed to the position of Secretary and Editor 

 to the Eoyal Agricultural Society of England. Mr. W. S. Dallas, 

 F.L.S., who, during the past ten years, has been the Curator to the 

 Yorkshire Philosophical Society's Museum at York, has been elected 

 to the post of Assistant Secretary, Librarian, and Curator in the 

 room of Mr. Jenkins. 2. Mr. Skertchly, the Library Assistant, has 

 resigned, in order to accompany Messrs. Bauerman and Lord to 

 Egypt. Mr. Frederick "Waterhouse, second son of G. E. Water- 

 house, Esq., Keeper of the Geological Department, British Museum, 

 has been elected in Mr. Skertchly's stead. 



