96 Obituary — Prof e8&or Adam Sedgivick. 



in the Jacquard loom, of wliicli he allowed others to reap the 

 benefit. Eeturning to his native district of Furness, he practised 

 as a' land-surveyor, and devoted days and weeks for more than 

 half a century in examining well nigh every square yard of Furness 

 and the adjacent Lake-Mountains, and collecting the fossils fi'om the 

 Skiddaw slates, in some of the wildest and least frequented mountain 

 peaks and secluded ghylls in North Britain. In 1862 a paper of 

 his was communicated to the Geological Society of London, " On 

 a Deposit, with Insects, Leaves, etc., near Ulverstone," in which he 

 described several points connected with the deposition of haematite, 

 a subject in which he had obtained much experience. In 1869 he 

 published his work on the Geology of Furness, entitled " Geological 

 Fragments," in which he describes his chief fossil discoveries, and 

 gives an interesting and navve account of his adventures among the 

 mountains with the dalesmen of the North, and of his intercourse 

 with Prof. Sedgwick, and other veteran geologists, who first worked 

 out the geology of the Lake District. In this work John Bolton 

 must always be considered to have had some share, in having 

 collected the fossils of Furness before a single geologist had ever 

 visited that country, and from having, during a long life, probably 

 obtained more fossils from the Lake District than any other person. 



PROFESSOE SEDGWICK, BORN 1786, DIED 1873. 



It is with much regret that we record the death of another 

 veteran belonging to the heroic age of Geological science. The 

 Rev. Professor Adam Sedgwick, Fellow of Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, who since 1818 has held the Chair of Wood- 

 wardian Professor of Geology in that University, died early on 

 the 27th January, in his 88th year. 



The labour of his life was the promotion of Geological 

 science ; his happiness, to do good to all around him. His 

 portrait, with an. account of his scientific career and published 

 works, will be found in the Geological Magazine for 1870, 

 Vol. VII. p. 145. 



Reliqui^ Aquitanic^. — The publication of this serial work, 



descriptive of the implements, bones, etc., found by MM. Henry Christy and Bdouard 

 Lartet in the Caves of the Vezere (Dordogne), France, met with a sad and unex- 

 pected interruption from the death of M. Lartet and the troubles of the French 

 war. The lamented M. Lartet had in 1865 cheerfully undertaken the labour 

 of fulfilling all that, from the loss of his friend and fellow-worker, H. Christy, 

 had fallen upon him to do, in carrying out as far as possible the original intentions 

 regarding the "Reliquiae Aquitanicas. " Conscientiously and with loving care he 

 fulfilled this melancholy but congenial task, though much interrupted by ill 

 health and family affliction ; until, seriously invalided, and deeply affected by the 

 disasters of his country, he retired from Paris in the dismal autumn of 1870, and was 

 struck by apoplexy at his country residence at Seissan (Gers), January 28, 1871. The 

 executors and friends of the late Henry Christy are desirous of speedily and worthily 

 completing the " Reliquiae Aquitanicse " in accordance with the intentions of the 

 authors; and with the aid of friends at home, and of M. Louis Lartet, M. AljAonse 

 Milne-Edwards, M. Sauvage, and other fellow -workers in France, they will proceed 

 with the work as expeditiously as possible. Owing to the melancholy events above 

 referred to, there will be fewer Ir'arts published than originally contemplated. 

 Part XI. is in the press, and will soon appear. 



