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particularly interested, and was thus able in his papers to look beyond 

 the limits of the object of his immediate investigation and to indicate 

 its general relations. As a fossil-collector he was remarkably 

 successful, and in this respect his services to science are not yet 

 concluded, as his large collection has been presented by the generosity 

 of his sister. Miss C. Meyer, to the University of Cambridge, where 

 no doubt it will continue to supply valuable material to palgeonto- 

 logical workers in the future, as it has already done to Davidson, 

 Lycett, and others in the past. 



Mr. Meyer's first paper was a note * On the Age of the Black- 

 down Greensand,' published in the ' Geologist 'for 1863 ; and thi» 

 was the first of a series which appeared, at the rate of one or more 

 almost every year, in the same publication and its successor, the 

 Geological Magazine, from 1863 to 1869. Of these papers, three 

 dealt with the Brachiopoda of the Lower Greensand, of which 

 some new species were described ; one gave a careful account of the 

 Lower Greensand of the Farringdon District ; another described, for 

 the first time, the passage of the Red Chalk of Speeton into the 

 underlying clay ; and another discussed most ably the correlation of 

 the Lower Cretaceous Eocks of the South-East and West of England. 

 In the last-mentioned paper Mr. Meyer expressed opinions as to 

 the classification of these rocks diff'ering in some points from those 

 currently held, and his views will require the respectful consideration 

 of future workers in the same field. 



In 1869 his well-known paper on the Lower Greensand of 

 Godalming was published as a separate pamphlet by the Geologists' 

 Association, and remains the most detailed account of that neigh- 

 bourhood which has yet been attempted. 



His first communication to this Society was contributed in 1871, and 

 was a description of Lower Tertiary deposits exposed in excavations 

 at Portsmouth. This was followed by papers in 1872 and 1873 on 

 the relations of the Lower Greensand and Weald Clay, having 

 particular reference to the supposed passage-beds or Punfield forma- 

 tion, respecting which he cleared up some difficulties and miscon- 

 ceptions. In 1874 he contributed to our Journal a most valuable 

 account of the Cretaceous Rocks of Beer Head and the Devon 

 Coast, which has already become one of the classic papers on that 

 district. In 1878, in the pages of the Geological Magazine, he 

 discussed the Micrasters of the English Chalk with that catholicit}' 

 of view that distinguishes all his work, and marked out the lines of 

 research which have since been pursued with such excellent resulta 



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