240 Obituary— Sir P. de M. Grey-Egerton. 



Park, Bucks ; lie was educated at Eton and Christ Church; Oxford, 

 graduating B.A. in 1828. Having studied geology under Conybeare 

 and Buckland, together with the Earl of Enniskillen, he made a 

 lengthened geological tour with that nobleman through Germany, 

 Switzerland, and Italy. About this time he became acquainted 

 with Professor L. Agassiz, at Neufchatel, and commenced the forma- 

 tion of a grand collection of Fossil Fishes, both from British and 

 Foreign localities. A large number of the types of Agassiz's Mono- 

 graph on the " Fossil Fishes of the Old Red Sandstone " (published 

 in 1844) are to be found in the Enniskillen and Egerton Collections, 

 as also of specimens described and figured in the Decades and 

 Memoirs of the Geological Survey, the Quart. Journ, Geol. Soc, the 

 Geological Magazine, etc. He entered Parliament in 1830 as 

 Member for Chester, and he afterwards represented the Southern 

 and Western Divisions of Cheshire since 1835. 



He was senior elected Trustee of the British Museum, and one 

 of the Original Trustees of the British Association, and of the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons of London, and a Member of the Senate 

 of the University of London. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1829, and 

 of the Eoyal Society in 1831, to the Proceedings of both which he 

 has been a frequent contributor. 



Having been almost always a Member of the Council of the 

 former Society, an opportunity only occurred to award him the 

 Wollaston Medal in 1873. The first Kingsley Medal was also 

 presented to him in 1878, by the Chester Natural History Society, 

 in recognition of his valuable services in promoting the objects of 

 that Society. 



During the long period which he served as a Member of 

 Parliament, although not distinguished in debate, he was never- 

 theless one of the hardest workers in Committees of the House, and 

 whether as a naturalist, or antiquary, a field-sportsman, or country 

 gentleman, he was always thoroughly in earnest in all he undertook. 



His career was an eminently useful and practical one, and his 

 loss in the world of science, as well as of politics, will be keenly 

 felt; but most severely by the circle of his most intimate friends 

 who had grown to know and value him for his private character, 

 and the noble example he set as a thorough and upright English 

 gentleman. 



He worthily did honour to the motto of his ancient house : — 

 "I trust not in arms but in vii'tue." 



A Deep Coal-Mine. — It is interesting to record a triumph of 

 engineering skill and perseverance. On Saturday, March 5th, at the 

 Ashton Moss Colliery, in Lancashire, the main seam of coal was cut 

 at the depth of 2691 feet. This is the deepest pit in the United 

 Kingdom, Eose Bridge Colliery, which was the deepest previous to 

 this sinking, being only 2460 feet. The temperature in the Ashton 

 Moss Colliery at 860 yards was 78° YsLh-x.—Athenaimn, March 19. 



