336 Appointment of Mr. F. W. Rudler, F.G.S. 



Lowry's first important work, as an engraver, was the execution 

 of the plates for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. He also executed 

 for Sir John Eennie a series of plates of London Bridge. For many 

 years Mr. Lowry prepared all the engravings for Scott Bussell illus- 

 trative of wave-lines and the contours of Vessels. He also 

 designed and executed numerous maps and charts for the Society for 

 the Promotion of Christian Knowledge ; the Atlas of Maps pub- 

 lished by the Dispatch newspaper — the first really cheap and good 

 atlas ever produced. 



The plates illustrating Phillips's Geology of Yorkshire, Weale's 

 Scientific Manuals, and many other educational and scientific works, 

 were engraved by Mr. Lowry. We are indebted to Mr. Lowry for 

 the excellent series of Natural History Charts of British Fossils 

 Stratigraphically arranged ; British Tertiary Fossils ; Becent and 

 Fossil Crustacea, by J. W. Salter and Dr. H. Woodward, etc., etc. 



Hundreds of plates of fossils exquisitely engraved, and maps and 

 sections too numerous to recount, published for the Geological Survey 

 of Great Britain, amply testify to Mr. Lowry's rare ability as a 

 scientific engraver. Even the familiar card-maps of each town 

 visited year after year by the British Association were invented 

 and produced by Mr. Lowry's skill and ingenuity. 



But the days of engraving seem drawing to a close (at least so 

 far as printing from engraved plates is concerned), but the beautiful 

 plates prepared by Mr. Lowry cannot well be surpassed by modern 

 lithography save in cheapness. His Geological and Natural History 

 Charts, produced at great personal expense and labour, are still the 

 best of their kind extant, and continue greatly in demand. 



Much as Mr. Lowry's work was valued by scientific men, his 

 amiability of disposition and his modesty won for him even higher 

 esteem among his friends. Many who knew him personally will 

 recall his readiness on all occasions, even at great personal sacrifices, 

 to help those who needed his assistance. His freshness of heart and 

 kindness to the young were marked features in his character, and 

 endeared him to all. 



MISCELLAUEOTJS. 



The Appointment of Begistrar to the Eoyal School of 

 Mines.— Mr. F. W. Budler, F.G.S., who, from 1861 to 1876, held 

 the office of Assistant Curator, under Mr. Trenham Beeks, to the 

 Museum of Practical Geology, in Jermyn Street, and subsequently 

 was appointed to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, 

 has been duly appointed to succeed Mr. Trenham Beeks as Begistrar 

 of the Boyal School of Mines and Curator to the Museum of Practical 

 Geology. This appointment will afford great satisfaction to a large 

 circle of scientific friends, by whom Mr. Budler has long been known 

 and highly esteemed. 



