192 Miscellaneous — Geological Survey Appointments. 



HENRI-SEBASTIEN LE HON. 



We also regret to record the loss of Monsieur le Chevalier Le Hon 

 of Brussels, who died at San-Eemo, Italy, on the 31st January last. 

 M. Le Hon was Major pensionne and formerly Professor of the 

 Military School in Brussels, and a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold, 

 and was decorated with the Iron Cross. He was a member of the 

 Geological Society of France; a Corresponding Member of the 

 Imperial Institute of Geology of Vienna ; of the Italian Society of 

 Natural Sciences of Milan, etc., etc. 



His chief published work, which is of considerable merit, is 

 entitled : "L' homme Fossile en Europe," Brussels, 1867, of which 

 two editions have appeared. 



FEANCOIS-JULES PICTET— DE LA EIVE. 



Geological Science has sustained a heavy loss in the death of 

 Monsieur Frangois-Jules Pictet, who died at Geneva, on the 15th 

 March last, in his 63rd yeai^. 



M. Pictet was Professor of Geology and Palaeontology in the 

 Academy of Geneva, and also a National Councillor. 



He was elected a Foreign Correspondent of the Geological Society 

 of London in 1865. 



His published memoirs exceed forty in number. He was one of the editors of the 

 "ArchiTes des Sciences physiques et naturelles," published at Geneva, 1846, et seq. 



His greatest works are the following : — 



I. " Traits Elementaire de Paleontologie, ou Hist. Nat. des Animaux Fossiles," in 



four vols. 8vo., 1844—46, pp. 1766, and 73 plates. 

 Second Edition : — Text in four vols. 8vo., 1853—57. Atlas 4to., with 77 

 pages and 110 plates. 



II. Materiaux pour la Paleontologie Suisse, ou recueil de monographies sur les 



fossiles du Jura et des Alpes. 

 1st Series : 11 parts, Geneva, 1854 — 58. 4to., pp. 184, plates 23. 

 2nd Series : (by MM. Pictet & Campiohe) 1858—60. 4to. 



1st Fart, pp. 380, 2 maps, and 43 plates. (With a separate Folio Atlas, containing 



7 large plates of Fossil Fishes,) 

 2nd Part (by MM. Pictet and Loriol), pp. 54, 2 maps, and 11 plates. 

 Srd Series : (by MM. Pictet & Campiche) 1861—64. 4to. pp. 752, 55 plates. (With a 

 Supplement on the Reptiles and Fishes of the Jura of Neufchatel, par MM. Pictet 

 et A. Jaccard, 1860. 4to. pp. 88, plates 19.) 

 4th Series: (par MM, Pictet et Campiche) 1864-67, 4to. pp. 558, plates 41. (With a 



Supplement by MM. Pictet and Loriol: 1868, 4to. pp. 110, and 9 plates.) 

 Sth Series: (par MM. Pictet et Campiche) 1868-71, 4to. pp. 352, plates 55. 



Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. — Since the death 

 of Sir Eoderick I. Murchison, Bart., which took place on the 22nd of 

 October, 1871, the post of Director-General of the Geological 

 Survey of the United Kingdom has remained vacant. 



Early in March Professor Andrew C. Eamsay, LL.D., F.E.S., 

 V.P. Geol. Soc, Director of the Geological Survey for England 

 and Wales, received the appointment of Director-General for the 

 United Kingdom ; and shortly afterwards Henry W. Bristow, Esq., 

 F.K.S., F.G.S., Senior District Surveyor, was promoted to the post 

 of Local Director. The appointment of Director of the Eoyal School 

 of Mines, formerly held by the Director-Gen. of the Geol. Survey, is, 

 we understand, to remain for the present in abeyance, pending the 

 consideration of the Government to remove that Institution from 

 Jerinyn-street to South Kensington. The promotion of Prof. Eamsay 

 and Mr. H. W. Bristow has given the greatest satisfaction to all the 

 members of the staff and to the Geological world at large. 



