384 Correspondence — Mr. A. B. Wynne. 



even reported that his strength had succumbed to the trial. But letters 

 from him up to a period just before his starting to return led to the 

 hope that he had quite recovered from this attack. But it was not 

 permitted to him to reach his friends again, and he died as stated, 

 amid some of the wildest scenery of the hills he loved so dearly, on 

 the 19th June. 



Few men have been more thoroughly saturated with the love of 

 their pursuits and of nature than was Stoliczka. It was this which 

 rendered his influence, always for good, much more widely felt than 

 merely in his own department. There, too, his unremitting devotion 

 and earnest labours were the strongest stimulant to others to do 

 their best, in order to keep pace with him ; but this influence had 

 also made itself felt by every cultivator of natural science in India. 

 For several years Stoliczka was Natural History Secretary to the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, and it is mainly to his exertions that this 

 Society owes its resumption of much of its early vigour. Its journal 

 for years past is full of contributions of high value from his pen in 

 almost every branch of natural histor}'. How highly his services 

 were appreciated and valued by his colleagues will be best seen in 

 the reports of the Geological Survey and of the Asiatic Society, 

 while his happy disposition and the genial sociality of his tempera- 

 ment, coupled with the inflexible rectitude of his character, rendered 

 him a general favourite. Cut off at the early age of 35, few men will 

 be more deeply regretted by those who had the privilege of knowing 

 him, few will be more truly missed than Ferdinand Stoliczka. 



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RAISED BEACHES AND ANCIENT IRISH VOLCANOS. 



Sir, — The Geological Magazine for May, 1874, has just come 

 to hand. With reference to Mr. Hardman's paper, p. 215, para- 

 graph second, he will find another case of raised beach and sub- 

 marine peat, also on the south coast of Ireland, mentioned in Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond. vol. xxiv. p. 4 ; also in Geol. Mag. 1867, 

 Vol. IV. p. 8; May, 1868, p. 244; October, 1868, p. 484. 



It would be interesting if any concordance could be found between 

 the phenomena of the two places, though I cannot recall any evidence 

 of three submergences at the one I refer to near Youghal. 



In Professor Hull's address, in the same Number, p. 205, I 

 presume he did not intend to notice all the volcanic eruptions of 

 Carboniferous times in Ireland or he would not have omitted to 

 mention Croghan Hill, near Phillipstown, thought by the late Pro- 

 fessor Jukes to be the funnel of an old volcano. A. B. Wynne. 

 MuEREE, Panjab, June IQth, 1874. 



Mr. Joseph Prestwich, F.R.S., F.G.S., has been appointed to the 

 office of Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford, as 

 successor to the late Prof. Phillips. 



The Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers have awarded a 

 Telford Medal and a Telford Premium to Prof. Prestwich, F.E.S., 

 Assoc. Inst. C.E., for his paper, " On the Geological Conditions afl"ect- 

 ing the Construction of a Tunnel between England and France." 



