Sn BWemoriam. 
DANIEL MACKINTOSH, F.G5S. 
Many of our geological readers will have read with regret the 
announcement of the death of Mr. Daniel Mackintosh, who was 
widely known as an able and enthusiastic teacher of natural 
science, and was no less celebrated as an ardent worker in the 
glacial geology of the British Islands. The deceased gentleman, 
who passed away at the age of 76, had been in failing health for 
some time past. He had held, among other scholastic posts, the 
appointment of lecturer on geology and physiography to the 
Liverpool College, besides which, he had a high reputation among 
many of the leading institutions and educational centres of the 
country as a lecturer on these subjects and on astronomy. Elected 
a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1861, he became 
a prolific writer, and at a time when his strength permitted his 
best energies to be put forth there was no one whose name was 
more often met with in the geological literature of the day. His 
extensive field-vork brought him in contact with some of the 
most noted savants of the age, among those whose friendship 
he enjoyed being the late Charles Darwin, Canon Kingsley, Sir 
Roderick Murchison, Professor Sedgwick, and Sir Charles Lyell. 
Mr. Mackintosh was, we believe, by birth a Scotchman, but 
resided for some years in the south of England. He afterwards 
removed to Chester, where he materially assisted Canon Kingsley 
in establishing the Chester Society of Natural Science, frequently 
leading their early excursions. In 1875 the members of this 
Society subscribed a purse of £40 as a testimonial of their 
appreciation of his services, the gift being presented to him by the 
late Dean Howson. More recently he was awarded the Kingsley 
Memorial Medal, given in commemoration of their revered founder 
to those who have specially distinguished themselves in original 
scientific research, this being the highest distinction it is in the 
power of the Society to bestow. The Geological Society of 
London also recognised his work in presenting him with a grant 
from the ‘Lyell Fund’ in 1886. 
On receiving his appointment at Liverpool, Mr. Mackintosh left 
Chester to reside at Birkenhead. He was elected President of the 
Liverpool Geological Society during the sessions 1881-83, when he 
delivered two addresses at the Royal Institution, in Colquitt Street, 
having for their subjects :—‘ The time which has elapsed since the 
eos Of the glacial period,’ and ‘ Post-tertiary changes of level. 
t. 1891 
