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engaged in business there during his earlier years. But that he 

 employed his leisure in natural-history pursuits is evident from the 

 fact that at the age of 31 he was appointed Curator of the Museum 

 of the Philosophical Society of Bristol. With the facilities for 

 research which he then obtained, he made himself familiar with the 

 Secondary rocks and their fossils, so well developed in the region 

 around his home. His knowledge in this department of our science 

 was recognized to be so exceptional, that in the year 1S57 he was 

 offered and accepted the post of one of the palaeontologists in the 

 Geological Survey at Jermyn Street, under the leadership of 

 Murchison. At that time J. W. Salter, who was in the full vigour 

 of his work as palaeontologist, took charge more especially of the 

 invertebrate palaeontology of the Palaeozoic formation s ; that of 

 the Secondary and Tertiary groups was accordingly now put into 

 the hands of Etheridge, who likewise gave demonstrations to the 

 students at the Boyal School of Mines under Huxley. He had pre- 

 viously had some experience in lecturing at the Bristol Mining School, 

 and in 1S59 he published the substance of his prelections there in 

 the volume entitled ' Geology : its Relations & Bearing upon Mining." 

 In 1863 he succeeded Salter as Palaeontologist to the Survey. 



All through his life Etheridge was singularly industrious, busv 

 at his various tasks, early and late ; but the published papers and 

 books which he has left furnish a wholly inadequate idea of the 

 amount of work which he accomplished. He was constantly engaged 

 in the details of a museum, determining, labelling, arranging, and 

 cataloguing specimens. Much of this labour was severe and unceas- 

 ing, but as it made little outward show it hardly, perhaps, received 

 the recognition which it deserved. Yet, had it been pretermitted, 

 the effects of the want of his skilled eyes and deft hands would soon 

 have been apparent in the cases of the Museum. Eurther, during his 

 connection with the Survey, he was charged with the preparation of 

 lists of fossils for the various Memoirs — a task demanding care and 

 accuracy, involving often much time and trouble, yet rlnallv repre- 

 sented in print sometimes by but a few pages of text and a series 

 of tabular statements, buried in the appendix to an. official pamphlet 

 composed of flimsy paper, badly printed perhaps with old broken 

 tvpe, and sold not infrequently at a prohibitive price. 



Yet, notwithstanding the claims of the Museum and Survey, he 

 contrived to find opportunity now and then to write a non-official 

 paper on some of the subjects which came under his observation. 

 The more important of these communications were read before this 



