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tigation of the fossil contents of the Genista Cave at Gibraltar, in 

 conjunction with Capt. Brome and Mr. George Busk. Returning 

 to England, in order to support, at the Council of the Royal Society, 

 the claims of Charles Darwin for tlie Copley Medal, he suffered 

 much from exposure to fatigue and cold on the Sierra Morena, owing 

 to the breaking down of the diligence. He attended, for the last 

 time, the Council of the Royal Society, January 19th, and died on 

 31st January, 1865. His bust is placed in the Royal Society's 

 rooms at Burlington House, and another in the Museum of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. Before long the " Falconer Fel- 

 lowship " will be founded in the University of Edinburgh, which, 

 with these two volumes, will form his hest memorials. 



II. — Monographs Published by the PALiEONTOGRAPHicAL Society. 

 June, 1868, Vol. XXI., (Issued for 1867.) 



IN the Geological Magazine, 1867, Vol. IV., p. 409, we called 

 attention to the issue in June, 1867, of the twentieth annual 

 volume of the publications of this useful Society : it is with much 

 pleasure that we now refer our readers to vol. xxi., the contents of 

 which are as follows : — 



1. On the Flora of the Carboniferous Strata, part i., by E. W. 

 Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., (with six plates.) 



2. Supplement to the Fossil Corals, part iv., No. 2, Liassic Corals, 

 by Dr. P. Martin Duncan, M.B. Lond., F.R.S,, etc., (with six 

 plates.) 



3. The Fossil Echinodermata (Cretaceous) vol. i., part ii., by Dr. 

 Thos. Wright, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., (with fourteen plates.) 



4. The Fishes of the Old Red Sandstone, part i., by Messrs. J. 

 Powrie, F.G.S., and E. Ray Lankester, (with five plates.) 



5. The Pleistocene Mammalia, part ii., Felis spelcea continued, by 

 Messrs W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., F.G.S., etc., and W. A. San- 

 ford, F.G.S., (with 14 plates.) 



Containing in all 45 lithographic plates (9 of which are double- 

 quarto size,) and 238 quarto pages of text. 



1. Mr. Binney is a new contributor to the publications of this 

 Society, but his name has been well known for more than twenty years 

 in all matters relating to the Geology and Flora of the Coal-measures. 

 So long ago as 1844, Mr. Binney pointed out (in the Trans. Manchester 

 Philosophical Society) the connection between the "bell-mounds" 

 (i. e. the stumps of Sigillaria^ from which radiated the Stigmaria 

 ficoides, the roots of Sigillaria,) and the prostrate stems covered with 

 scars and flutings called Sigillaria ; and he also showed that several 

 species formed upon the leaf-scars of the trunk (as Sigillaria eaten- 

 ulata, reni/ormis, organum, and alternans), were all referable to differ- 

 ent conditions of the same stem. 



In the valuable memoir published in 1848,^ " On the Vegetation 



1 In Vol. II., Part II., Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1848, 

 pp. 387-456. <= J » » 



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