xlvi PEOCEEDiywS or THE GEOLOG-ICAL SOCIETY. >ol. Ixxviii, 



University of St. Andi*e\vs in 1S7S, and had been President of 

 the Palieontograpliical, Malacological, and Eoyal ]SIicroscopical 

 Societies. 



Louis Cumptox Miall. Avho became a Fellow of the Society 

 in 1S75. was born at Bradford in 1S-J:2. and died on February 21st, 

 1921. He besran his career as an elementary school-teacher, but 

 was so much interested in natural science that he soon left his 

 first profession for the cui-atorship of the Literary & Philosophical 

 Society's Musemn at Bradford, and afterwards for the curatorship 

 ■of the more important corresponding Museum at Leeds. In 1S76 

 he was elected Professor of Biology in the newly-founded York- 

 shire College of Science, and he retained his Professorship in the 

 University of Leeds, as it afterwards became, until his retii-ement 

 from active work in 1907. In 190I:-1905 he was also Fullerian 

 Professor in the Eoyal Institution, London. Although an all- 

 round naturalist, Miall was at first more especially interested in 

 geology and palaeontology, and he began original research with 

 ^ome experiments on the contortion of Carboniferous Limestone 

 (Geol. Mag. 1S69, p. 505). In 1S69 he discovered in the Coal- 

 Measures at Bradford a new Labyrinthodont, which was described 

 as Blioliderpeton scutigerum by Huxley in the Quarterly Journal 

 •of the G-eological Society for that year. Miall wrote a geological 

 .appendix to this description, and, when he presented it to the 

 .Society, he made the acquaintance both of Huxley and of Lyell. 

 His interest in the little-known group of Labyrinthodonts was 

 thus aroused, and in 1873-71 he prepared important reports on 

 these fossils, ^vith many new observations and conclusions, for the 

 British Association. In 1874: he also published a paper on 

 Labyrinthodont remains froiu the Trias of Warwick in the Society's 

 ■Quaiierly Journal. At the same time Miall studied closely the 

 Palaeozoic Granoid fishes, and he gave to the Society an account of 

 i:he palate of Ctenodus and the skull of Rhizodus. In 1884 he 

 also conti'ibuted to the Quarterly Journal a valuable memoir on 

 JlegaJiclithys, which was afterwards published in an extended 

 form by the Leeds Museum. In 1878 he began for the Palaeonto- 

 graphical Society a Monograph of the Sirenoid and Crossoptery- 

 .gian Ganoids, but did not proceed further than the inti'oduction 

 and a description of Ceratodus. From ISSl onwards Miall gave 

 increasins: attention to existing: rather than to fossil animals, and 

 he made important contributions to oui" knowledge of the structure 



