﻿384 Ohituary — Dr. Bryce. — Miscellaneous. 



BOW. In recognition of his services in this and other capacities, his 

 Ahna Mater in 1855 conferred the degree of LL.D. Three years 

 ago he retired from scholastic work, and came to reside in Edin- 

 burgh, where, as in the West, his genial disposition, not less than 

 his intellectual activity and varied acquirements, soon gained him a 

 wide circle of friends. Prominent for many ye^rs among Scotch 

 educationists. Dr. Bryce took an active part in founding the Educa- 

 tional Institute, of which he was President in 1852. In 1874 he 

 was President of the Association of Higher. Class Public School- 

 mastei's ; and within the last few months he acted as secretary to 

 the committee for securing the continuance of the Scotch Education 

 Board. His contributions to educational literature were numerous, 

 but to the general public he was perhaps better known as an inde- 

 fatigable geologist. When quite a young man, he contributed many 

 papers to scientific journals upon geological subjects, and in 1834 he 

 became a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. When resident 

 in Belfast, he carefully investigated the geology of Antrim, and parti- 

 cularly of the Giants' Causeway, and these researches, the results of 

 which were published from time to time, threw not a little light on 

 the character of basaltic formations. After removing to Glasgow, he 

 devoted much attention to Arran, and in due time produced an 

 excellent work on the geology of that remarkable island, now in its 

 second edition. He made another important contribution to the 

 London Geological Societ}^ on the rocks of Skye and Raasay. In 

 Glasgow, Dr. Bryce took a warm interest in the proceedings of the 

 Philosophical Society, of which he was President for two years. As 

 convener of the British Association's Committee on Earthquakes, he 

 conducted experiments at Comrie, regarding which interesting re- 

 ports were made. During the three years he resided in Edinburgh, 

 he was assiduous in attendance at the meetings of various scientific 

 societies. Of the Eoyal Society he was a fellow and councillor ; and 

 of the Geological Society a fellow and senior Vice-President. Dr. 

 Bryce, it may be also mentioned, was editor of a Cyclopaedia of 

 Physical Geographj^ For several years he has been working at the 

 geologj'' of the North West Highlands, to which he made many 

 excursions. He was a keen and intelligent observer of geological 

 facts ; and outside the family circle seemed never happier than when 

 travelling, hammer in hand, through a district which promised to 

 reward research. It is a melancholy coincidence, that it had been 

 intended to ask Dr. Bryce to lead the next excursion of the Inverness 

 Field Club to the very glen in which he has so suddenly closed an 

 active and useful career. — The Weeldy Scotsman, July 14th, 1877, 



Dixon's Geology of Sussex. 4to. 1850, pp. 454, with 60 Woodcuts and 44 

 Plates. — This fine work, puhlished after Mr. Frederick Dixon's death, under the 

 able editorship of Professor Owen, C.B., assisted by Professors Thos. Bell, F.R.S., 

 Edward Forbes, F.R.S., Mr. Wm. Lonsdale, F.R.S., Mr. James De Carle Sowerbv, 

 and Sir Philip Grey Egertou, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., is, we understand, after an interviil 

 of twenty-seven years, to see a second edition, prepared by Professor T. Rupert Jones, 

 F.R.S., F.G.S. ; assisted by Professor Owen, C.B., and numerous other geological and 

 palaioutological friends. To be published by W. J. Smith, Brighton. 



