Correspondence — Mr. J. H. Jennings. 239 



fossils are in many cases so fragmentary or indistinct that identifica- 

 tion is by no means easy ; nevertheless, we succeeded in detecting 

 among them several specimens of one of the Budleigh Salterton 

 species of BracMopoda. Having been furnished by Mr. Peach with 

 all needful information, we were so fortunate as to secure the 

 assistance of one of his old collectors, who conducted us to the 

 fossiliferous beds of the Great Cairn and Great Peraver, near Gorran 

 Haven. In the Peraver, we succeeded in finding fossils having the 

 same general facies as those of the " pebble-bed," and inhumed in 

 quartzites identical in structure and even in hue with the pebbles of 

 South-eastern Devonshire." (See Transactions Plymouth Institu- 

 tion, 1864-5, vol. i. pp. 22-3.) 



Torquay, ith April, 1878. Wm. Pengellt. 



ON THE ORIGIN OF A QUARTZITE BOULDER FROM THE BUNTER 

 CONGLOMERATE, NOTTINGHAM. 



SiK, — A short time ago it was my good fortune to find, in a 

 heap of road-metal, near Nottingham, a liver-coloured quartzite 

 boulder, no doubt derived from the Bunter Conglomerate of the 

 district, which exhibits on its fractured surface a well-defined con- 

 cave cast of Ortliis redux — a Caradoc fossil that is, I understand, 

 by far the most frequent species in the quartzite pebbles of the 

 Triassic shingle beds of Budleigh Salterton, Devon, and of similar 

 deposits in the North of France. 



In recording the occurrence of the above fossil in this locality, 

 I am content to leave the question whence this and similar pebbles 

 in our Bunter Conglomerate were derived for the consideration of 

 those who are more competent than myself to offer an opinion on 

 the subject. 



Nottingham, March IWi, 1878. J. H. Jennings. 



OBITTJ-^S,"Z". 



JOHN ROFE, C.E., F.G.S., ETC. 



Born, 14 October, 1801. Died, 11 April, 1878. 



We regret to record the loss by death of an excellent geologist, 

 a much valued friend, and a frequent contributor to this Journal. 



Mr. Kofe was born in London, Oct. 14, 1801, and was educated at 

 Enfield, by the late Mr. Cowden Clarke, and afterwards at Eeading 

 with the Kev. Dr. Williams. 



He studied engineering under his father Mr. John Eofe, C.E. ; 

 and afterwards, in partnership with him, carried out many im- 

 portant public works, notably the Birmingham Gas, and Water- 

 Works ; the Eeading Gas-Works ; Gas and Water Engineering 

 Works were also carried out by Mr. Eofe for the towns of Leicester, 

 Guildford, and Boston. On several occasions he gave valuable 

 evidence in Committee before the House of Commons, with reference 

 to public Towns Water Works and Gas Companies Bills, in which 

 his sound geological knowledge proved of great service to him. 



On the 26th June, 1827, he married the daughter of the Eev. 

 Bartholomew Goe, Vicar of Boston, Lincolnshire, and settled in 



