240 Obituary — Dr. A. Krantz. 



comfortable, tliotigli limited, quarters may be obtained at '' The Ship." 

 Mr. Loughrin, a ready guide and good naturalist, knows the geology 

 of the district, and especially the localities where the fish-bed may 

 be seen in situ. 



As to the geological position of the beds, I was unable to deter- 

 mine them, as they appear to me to be faulted through the over- 

 lying Devonians of Plymouth, etc. Their dip too is reversed. 



As regards mineralogical character, the fish-bearing slates look 

 like some beds shown me by Mr. Pengelly at Mudstone Bay, near 

 Torbay, and which are there faulted through the Torbay strata. In 

 these Mudstone beds Mr. Pengelly, I believe, has found fish-remains. 

 Mr. Etheridge, Palgeontologist to the Geological Survey, considers the 

 Polperro and Looe rocks are on the same horizon as the Lynton and 

 Lynmouth strata, and I think this is very likely, more especially as 

 at Lantiret Bay, between Polperro and Fowey, they pass into red 

 slaty beds and yellowish grits, which are not unlike the base of the 

 Countesbury and Foreland ^beds at Lynton ; the Lantiret- Countes- 

 bury beds (if such they are) being denuded by the action of the 

 sea near the junction with the bone-bed. My friend. Dr. Holl, thinks 

 that the Polperro are not much above the Plymouth limestones. 



Pendock., Tewkesbubt, W. S. Stmonds. 



\8th March, 1872. 



[In reference to the occurrence of Devonian Pisli-reniains at Lynmouth, it may be 

 stated that Mr. J. Wetherell of that village has found a number of these in the rocks 

 to the "West of Lynmouth, where the blocks on the shore are exposed to the action 

 of the sea. A notice of their occurrence was read by Dr. Fairbank to the Geological 

 Society of London, Novi 23rd, 1870, but the paper has not been published. See 

 abstract, Geol. Mag., 1871, Vol. VIII., p. 38. See also notice of Fish-remains in 

 Cornwall, Geol. Mag., 1868, Vol. V., pp. 247, 296, and 437.— Edit. Geol. Mag.] 



Geological Survey Appointments. — In our notice of last month 

 we stated that Mr. Bristow had been appointed " Loijal Director " 

 instead of Senior Director for England and Wales. We may add 

 that Mr. H. H. Howell, F.G.S., has been promoted to the post of 

 District Surveyor, and Mr. J. Clifton Ward, F.G.S., has been ap- 

 pointed a Geologist on the English staff. 



We regret to have to record the somewhat sudden death of Dr. 

 Auguste Krantz, of Bonn-on-the-Ehine, who died from an attack of 

 erysipelas during a visit to Berlin on the 6th April last. Dr. Krantz 

 of Bonn represents one of the longest established and most able 

 members of that rare class, a scientific merchant in rocks, fossils, 

 and minerals — one, who not only knew accurately the commercial 

 value of his collections, but was intimately acquainted with the 

 scientific worth of every specimen which passed through his hands. 

 Indeed, there are few museums which have not been enriched from his 

 cosmopolitan repository. He leaves an immense and valuable collec- 

 tion both of Minerals and Fossils, the result of the labours of a long 

 life devoted to these pursuits. Dr. Krantz was in his 62nd year. 

 We believe it is the intention of Madame Krantz to carry on her 

 husband's business, with which she is well acquainted. 



