1 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY; 



Pentacrinite is particularly described, and allusion is made to 

 Encrini, minute Corallines, and other marine fossils resembling 

 those in the limestone of Dudley, as well as large Terebratulites. 

 The saliferous sands with vast deposits of gypsum are also de- 

 scribed, as are their accompanying red marls, now known as the 

 Permian group. Nor did the great limestone-formation, extend- 

 ing across the middle of Eussia, escape his notice. It is described 

 as generally of a pure white colour, completely filled with broken 

 Encrinites, large Terebratulites, Gary ophyllites, Peetinites, and the 

 exuvia of marine animals. The paper is accompanied by a sketch- 

 map of Eussia, in which the author has dotted down the various 

 formations he observed. No attempt is made to give anything 

 like a chronological sequence of the different beds. 



The Ven. Archdeacon Charles Pare Burney was born at 

 Chiswick, October 19, 1785. He was descended from a family 

 long distinguished for their literary attainments. His grandfather, 

 Charles Burney, was the author of the ' History of Music,' and his 

 father. Dr. Cliarles Burney, Avas a distinguished Greek scholar and 

 a successful schoolmaster. Educated by his father, he became a 

 member of Merton College, Oxford, and subsequently assisted his 

 father in the management of his school at Grreenwich. After 

 holding various livings he was appointed to the Archdeaconry of 

 St. Alban's, and in 1845 he was transferred to that of Colchester. 

 Both in private and in public life he was equally respected and 

 esteemed ; his knowledge of business was great, and his advice 

 and assistance were always ready for those who needed them. I 

 am not aware of his having ever contributed any paper to this 

 Society, but on account of his literary name he deserves notice on 

 such an occasion as the present. He died at Brighton on No- 

 vember 1, aged 79. 



The Eev. William Lister was a contributor to our Journal. 

 In Pebruar y 1862 he read a paper on the Drift containing recent 

 shells in the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton. He describes 

 three points where this drift is exposed containing marine shells, 

 some of which are purely Arctic, but most of them are common 

 British species. 



Amongst the Foreign Members whom we have lost, I must 

 mention Professor Edward Hitchcock, a name well known to all 

 Avho have studied the Geology of the United States. He was born 

 at Deerfield in Massachusetts, May 24, 1793. In early life he 

 devoted himself to the study of astronomy. His first geological 

 paper was his " Remarks on the Geology and Mineralogy of a 

 Section of Massachusetts on Connecticut River," published with 

 a map in the first volume of Silliman's Journal, dated Deerfield, 

 October 1817. For many years he was pastor of a church in 

 Conway, Massachusetts, but he still continued to write papers 

 on Mineralogy and Geology, which Avere published in the first 



