432 Obituary—Mr. William Molyneux, F.G.S. 
the geology of the Karoo and Stormberg. This Report was 
presented to the Cape Legislature in 1881, and forms a most im- 
portant and valuable contribution to our knowledge of the geology 
of this interesting district. 
When in Natal he made arrangements to purchase a farm, and in 
the autumn of 1881 he returned to England for his wife and family 
and sailed for Natal to take up his residence at Inchanga. But the 
farming proved too severe and laborious for his constitution, and not 
so profitable as he had been led to hope and expect. He therefore 
undertook an exploration in the Orange Free State and the Trans- 
vaal, to report on the mineral resources of those countries. On the 
return journey he made an examination of the Dundee Coal-field, 
which resulted in the formation of a company to work the coal and 
iron there. Returning to Durban, he took a severe cold, fever and 
dysentery ensued, and after three weeks’ illness he died in his 59th 
year. His remains are placed near those of Thomas Baines, F.R.G.S., 
the African traveller, in Durban Church Cemetery. 
He leaves a wife and eleven children, three of whom are still 
infants. 
The following is a list of papers published by Mr. Wm. Molyneux, 
F.G.5., late of Inchanga, Durban, Natal, and formerly of Burton- 
upon-Trent. 
On the Coal Strata of North Staffordshire, with reference particularly to their 
Organic Remains. British Assoc. Reports, 1859. (Joint paper with R. 
Garner.) 
Remarks on Fossil Fish from the North Staffordshire Coal-Fields. Brit. 
Assoc. Reports, 1860. 
Report on the Distribution of the Organic Remains of the North Staffordshire 
Coal-Field. Brit. Assoc. Reports, vol. xxxiv. 1864; and 1865, vol. xxxv. 
On the Gravel Beds of Trentham Park. Grou. Mac. Vol. IV. 1867, pp. 
173-174. 
On the Occurrence of Copper and Lead-Ores in the Bunter Conglomerates of 
Cannock Chase. Brit. Assoc. Reports, vol. xli. 1872. (Proc. Sects. pp. 
116-117.) 
On the Occurrence of Aviculopecten and other Marine Shells in deposits 
associated with Seams of Coal containing Salt-water in the Ashby Coal- 
Field. Brit. Assoc. Reports, 1877. 
The Cheadle Coat- Field (History of Cheadle), 1881. 
(A) Papers read before the North Staffordshire Naturalists’ Field Club:—1. ‘On 
the Gravel Beds of Trentham Park”’ (1866). 2. ‘“‘ Notes on Connemara”’ 
(1868). 3. ‘*The Geology of Lilleshall,” etc. (1872). 4. ‘‘The Rhetic 
Beds of Needwood Forest ’”’ (1874). 5. “The Water Supply of Stafford- 
shire’’ (1876). 6. Presidential Address (1879). 7. ‘‘The Pre-Norman 
History of Repton” (1877). 8. ‘‘ The Geology of Dovedale”’ (1878). 9. ‘*On 
the Bunter Conglomerate of Cannock Chase” (1878). 10. ‘‘ Bosworth 
Field” (1880). 
(B) Papers read before the Midland Scientific Association :—“ On the Fossils of the 
Lower Coal-Measures of North Staffordshire.”? ‘‘ On the Calecareous Hama- 
tite of the Churnet Valley.’’ ‘ Notes on the Fossils and Antiquities in the 
History of Burton-on-Trent.” 
Separate works :— 
‘‘ Burton-on-Trent: its History, its Waters, and its Breweries.’”? By William 
Molyneux, F.G.8. (London, 1869. 8vo. pp. 268. Triibner & Co.) 
‘Report on the Geology of the Karoo and Stormberg.”” By Wm. Molyneux, 
F.G.S. Presented to the Cape Legislature, and ordered to be printed. 
Cape Town, 1881. 
A pamphlet on the ‘‘ Conservancy of Rivers.”’ (8vo. 1879, Bellamy: Burton-on- 
Trent.) 
