528 Miscellaneous. 



examined and determined, intending ultimately to produce a general 

 work on the geology of the colony. The fossils constituted a valu- 

 able addition to the South-African collection in the Geological 

 Society's Museum, and were fully described, with illustrations, in 

 the Society's Journal, by Mr. E. Tate, in 1867. 



So long ago as 1854:, Dr. Eubidge wrote to his geological corres- 

 pondents in London on the subject of aerial denudation, which had 

 not then received as much attention from European geologists as it 

 deserved. In 1866 he reproduced the chief points of his letters in 

 the Geological Magazine, No. 20, bringing forward evidence of 

 the enormously extensive and long-continued denudation of the 

 interior of South Africa subsequent to its leaving the sea, and since 

 the lacustrine deposits of the Karoo formations were drained dry. 



As an observer and as a generalizer, then. Dr. Eubidge was 

 energetic and bold, adding much to the store of geological facts and 

 thought, though working hard throughout in his professional 

 practice, and often suffering from ill-health. Heart-disease has 

 taken him off suddenly (at the age of about forty-eight) from 

 amongst his friends, before his well-loved work was finished as he 

 wished ; but he had always given his best attention to the advance- 

 ment of Science in general, and of Geology in particular, among the 

 community around him ; and having always identified himself with 

 the Literary and Scientific Institutions of Port Elizabeth, and 

 shewed the greatest personal interest in its Public Library, Museum, 

 and Public Hospital, his townsmen, who in large numbers of all 

 grades of society attended his funeral, regret him as a kind warm- 

 hearted friend, — a loss which will not be readily replaced. His 

 fellow colonists too in South Africa, and his geological friends in 

 England, are all truly grieved to hear of his death, fully recognizing 

 his amiable qualities, scientific attainments, and devotion to good 

 works.— T. E. J. 



Mb. Maeshall Hall's Scientific Expedition. — The schooner 

 yacht Noma, Mr. Marshall Hall owner and master, is being laid up 

 at Brightlingsea for the winter, having returned from a Norwegian 

 cruise. She experienced several gales, but has suffered no injury 

 whatever. On passage out, at the same date, one of our largest and 

 finest schooners lost boats and everything above deck. The Noma 

 succeeded in penetrating to the furthest extremities of several fjords, 

 where never yacht had been before, and her owner, who is a 

 member of the Alpine Club, has partially explored, and even laid 

 the foundation for a rough survey of, several portions of the large 

 tracts of ice, of which at present but little is known. He proposes 

 to continue his efforts next summer. Mr. Marshall Hall has also 

 made geological investigations of the remarkable terraces very 

 common in the inland valleys of Norway, more especially as regards 

 the time occupied in their formation. Prof. Kjerulf, of Christiania, 

 has also been occupied with this subject. ^Scientific Opinion, Oct. 6, 

 1869. 



