OUtuary — Sir Richard John Griffith, Bart. 527 



Griffith was quite correct, for beneath the rocks considered by Prof. 

 Ramsay to be the basal group, equivalent to the English Cambro- 

 Silurians, thei-e are over 7000 feet in thickness of rocks that can 

 only be deemed to be of Cambrian age." — (Kinaha.n.) 



So lately as the week in which Sir Eichard Griifith died, Prof. 

 Edward Hull, F.R.S., the Director of the Geological Survey of Ire- 

 land, addressed a letter to him from Glengarriff, informing him that 

 as regards the age of " the Dingle Beds " (which had been referred 

 by Griffith to the Silurian formation and are coloured as such in his 

 Map of Ireland (edit. 1855), but which the officers of the Survey 

 held to be of uncertain age, and had coloured them intermediate be- 

 tween Old Eed Sandstone and Upper Silurian), he was now fully 

 convinced " of the correctness of Sir R. Griffith's views regarding the 

 age of the Dingle, Killarney, and Glengarriff Ranges." (" Nature" 

 October 10, 1878, p. 627.) But the venerable geologist never lived 

 to rejoice in this confirmation of his views. History will doubtless 

 do justice to the great merit of his work. 



We owe to Sir Richard Griffith a most valuable contribution to 

 palgeontology, namely, a " Synopsis of the Characters of the Carbon- 

 iferous Limestone Fossils of Ireland, by Frederick M'Coy, F.G.S." 

 (Dublin, 184:4, 4to. pp. 208, 29 plates ; reprinted in 1862, with table 

 of fossils and localities.) This valuable work, containing, in addi- 

 tion to the fossils previously known, descriptions and figures of 450 

 new species, was prepared and published at the cost of Sir Richard 

 Griffith, and represents the specimens in his own cabinet, collected 

 either by himself or his friends, from the Carboniferous Limestone 

 system of Ireland. 



We hope that this valuable collection may find a resting-place in 

 one of the public museums in Dublin. 



The following is a list of papers published by Sir Richard Griffith, 

 Bart. :— 



Report relative to the moving bog of Kilmaleady in the King's County. — Tilloch, 

 Phil. Mag. Iviii., 1821, pp. 70-73. 



On the Principle of Colouring adopted for the Geological Map of Ireland. 

 — Dublin Geol. Soc. Journ. ii. 1839, pp. 78-90. 



On Mr. Weaver's paper on the Mineral Structure of the South of Ireland. — 

 Phil. Mag. xvii. 1840, pp. 161-179. 



On the Geological Relations of the several rocks of the South of Ireland [1839]. 

 — Geol. Soc. Proc. iii. 1841, pp. 136-138. 



On the Syenite Veins which traverse Mica, Slate and Chalk at Goodland Cliff 

 and Torr Eskert, to the south of Fair Head, in the County of Antrim. — Trans. 

 Geol. Soc. 2nd series, v. p. 179. Proc. Geol. Soc. ii. p. 223. Phil. Mag. 3 

 series, viii. p. 559. 



On the Geological Relations of the several Rocks of the South of Ireland. — 

 Proc. Geol. Soc. iii. p. 136. Phil. Mag. 3 series, xv. p. 536. 



On the True Order of the Succession of the Older Stratified Rocks in the 

 neighbourhood of Killarney and to the North of Dublin. — Phil. Mag. series 3, 

 xvi. p. 161 ; xvii. p. 161. 



On the Geological Map of Ireland. — Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1835, Sect. p. 56. 



On the Leading Features of the Geology of Ireland. — Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1837, 

 Sect. p. 88. 



On the Geological Structure of the South of Ireland. — Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1838, 

 Sect. p. 81. Karst. u. Dech. Arch. xvii. p. 388. L. u. Br. N. Jahrb. 1844, p. 828. 



Statement of the Fossils which have been Discovered in the Several Members 

 of the Carboniferous or Mountain Limestone of Ireland. — Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1842, 

 Sect. p. 51. 



