E/mnerd Ltdhig Gcolo</kt& — l^i'of. Sedgmck. 147 



No mombor of his Umvorsity lias contril)ute(l, in a higher degree 

 than Prolessor Sedgwick, to elevate its character as a school of tho 

 Natural Sciences. To him it is also indebted for much caro and 

 liberality in providing for tho now largo collections of the Geological 

 Museum, the nucleus of which was Dr. Woodward's own small Cabinet. 



He lias himself contributed to it a noble series of many thousand 

 rock-specimens, chiefly British, and a still more valuable scries of 

 organic remains. For tho arrangement of tho latter, and of all the 

 pala3ontological collections added to the museum during the last 

 thirty-eight years, he secured first (in 1842-45), the services of the 

 late Mr. J. W. Salter, F.G.S., afterwards paUeontologist to tho 

 Geological Survey of England and Wales. Fur the next four years 

 he was assisted by Mr. M'Coy, since appointed to the chair of 

 natural history in the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 

 Professor M'Coy's descriptive catalogue of the " British Palaeozoic 

 Fossils" contained in these collections, has been published by the 

 University, introduced by an elaborate dissertation by Professor 

 Sedgwick, entitled "A Synopsis of the Classification of the British 

 Paleeozoic Eocks." In it he has expressed his matured views, and 

 given his final decision on the subject of the classification and 

 nomenclature of the older palseozoic formations, on which he is at 

 issue with his friend and former fellow-worker Sir R. I. Murchison, 

 giving to the Silurian system of that geologist all the lower 

 palajozoic formations above the Coniston grits, and claiming for his 

 own Cambrian system everything, from the Coniston grits inclusive, 

 down to the Skiddaw slate, and its equivalents, the Bangor and 

 Longmynd group, the most ancient of British rocks. 



In 1855, the late Mr. Lucas Barrett (afterwards Director of the 

 Geological Survey of the British West Indies) was elected Prof. Sedg- 

 wick's assistant and remained until 1859, when he went to Jamaica. 



His post as assistant to Prof. Sedgwick has since been filled by 

 Mr. H. G. Seeley, F.G.S. (whose Catalogue on the Eeptilian Ee- 

 mains, in the Woodwardian Museum, published under the auspices 

 of Prof. Sedgwick, we noticed in our January number, p. 34). 



As a lecturer Prof. Sedgwick's style is clear, earnest, and philo- 

 sophical, full of energy, and, even now, in his 52nd Course of 

 Lectures, and at the age of 86, he is still vigorous, and, when his 

 health permits, cheerful and full of humorous anecdote. For high 

 moral courage, for hatred of all that is wrong and mean, for generosity 

 of nature and tenderness of heart. Prof. Sedgwick is noted. He is 

 beloved by all who have the pleasure to enjoy his friendship. 



In his declining years he has the satisfaction to reflect that he has 

 done several splendid pieces of field-geology, which will ever remain. 

 associated with the name of Sedgwick : and, also, that he has been 

 the teacher of many first-rate practical geologists, some of whom, alas ! 

 have already done their appointed task, and gone before their master. 



The following is a list of Professor Sedgwick's papers, as recorded 

 in Agassiz's " Bibliographia Zoologiae et Geologic," 1854. (Eay 

 Societj') : — 



On the Physical Structure of those formations which are immediately associated 



