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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OE 
  THE 
  GEOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  of 
  this 
  city, 
  but 
  for 
  the 
  previous 
  13 
  years 
  he 
  was 
  well 
  known 
  to 
  

   many 
  London 
  geologists 
  and 
  to 
  all 
  connected 
  in 
  any 
  way 
  with 
  

   the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  or 
  the 
  Eoyal 
  School 
  of 
  Mines. 
  Born 
  at 
  

   Bristol, 
  July 
  7th, 
  1819, 
  Mr. 
  Bail}* 
  became 
  an 
  assistant 
  Curator 
  in 
  

   the 
  Bristol 
  Museum 
  in 
  1837, 
  and 
  in 
  1844 
  was 
  attached 
  to 
  the 
  

   Geological 
  Survey 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain 
  as 
  draughtsman, 
  joining 
  the 
  

   staff 
  as 
  Assistant 
  Geologist 
  under 
  Sir 
  H. 
  de 
  la 
  Beche 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  

   year. 
  From 
  that 
  time 
  till 
  1857 
  he 
  was 
  occupied 
  in 
  palaeontologieal 
  

   work 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  Survey 
  ; 
  but 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  year 
  he 
  removed 
  

   to 
  Dublin 
  on 
  being 
  appointed 
  Palaeontologist 
  to 
  the 
  Irish 
  Survey, 
  a 
  

   post 
  which 
  he 
  held 
  until 
  his 
  death. 
  In 
  1868 
  he 
  received 
  the 
  addi- 
  

   tional 
  appointment 
  of 
  Demonstrator 
  in 
  Palaeontology 
  to 
  the 
  Boyal 
  

   College 
  of 
  Science 
  for 
  Ireland. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Baily 
  belonged 
  to 
  a 
  group 
  of 
  scientific 
  men 
  who 
  have 
  now 
  

   become 
  rare 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Islands, 
  although 
  they 
  still 
  flourish 
  in 
  

   goodly 
  numbers 
  in 
  several 
  continental 
  countries. 
  They 
  were 
  

   Palaeontologists, 
  but 
  not 
  specialists, 
  and 
  many 
  of 
  them 
  were 
  at 
  the 
  

   same 
  time 
  excellent 
  stratigraphical 
  geologists. 
  Mr. 
  Baily's 
  first 
  

   two 
  published 
  papers, 
  which 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  eleventh 
  and 
  fourteenth 
  

   volumes 
  of 
  the 
  Society's 
  Quarterly 
  Journal, 
  " 
  Descriptions 
  of 
  some 
  

   Cretaceous 
  Fossils 
  from 
  South 
  Africa 
  n 
  and 
  '• 
  Descriptions 
  of 
  Fossil 
  

   Invertebrata 
  from 
  the 
  Crimea/*' 
  belonged 
  to 
  a 
  class 
  that 
  has 
  grown 
  

   rare 
  in 
  English 
  publications 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  day. 
  They 
  contained 
  

   identifications 
  and 
  descriptions 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  fossil 
  species, 
  

   sponges, 
  corals, 
  Bryozoa, 
  Echinoderms, 
  and 
  Mollusca, 
  from 
  various 
  

   beds 
  of 
  Jurassic, 
  Cretaceous, 
  and 
  Tertiary 
  age. 
  The 
  new 
  species 
  were 
  

   described 
  and 
  well 
  figured 
  by 
  the 
  author 
  himself. 
  But 
  two 
  of 
  Mr. 
  

   Baily's 
  later 
  papers 
  were 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  Society's 
  Journal, 
  the 
  

   majority 
  having 
  appeared, 
  either 
  in 
  connexion 
  with 
  the 
  Irish 
  

   Survey, 
  in 
  official 
  publications, 
  or 
  in 
  the 
  Journals 
  and 
  Proceedings 
  

   of 
  the 
  learned 
  Societies 
  of 
  Dublin. 
  In 
  1867 
  he 
  commenced 
  the 
  

   publication 
  of 
  " 
  Figures 
  of 
  characteristic 
  British 
  Fossils," 
  and 
  was 
  

   awarded 
  the 
  proceeds 
  of 
  the 
  AVollaston 
  Donation 
  Fund 
  in 
  aid 
  of 
  the 
  

   work. 
  Unfortunately 
  the 
  undertaking 
  was 
  not 
  a 
  pecuniary 
  success, 
  

   and 
  only 
  the 
  Palaeozoic 
  portion 
  was 
  ever 
  published. 
  

  

  One 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Baily's 
  best 
  claims 
  to 
  the 
  gratitude 
  of 
  his 
  fellow-geologists 
  

   consists 
  in 
  his 
  admirable 
  and 
  artistic 
  figures. 
  He 
  was 
  an 
  excellent 
  

   draughtsman 
  and 
  lithographer, 
  and 
  in 
  his 
  case 
  the 
  talent 
  was 
  

   hereditary, 
  both 
  his 
  father 
  and 
  grandfather 
  having 
  been 
  remarkable 
  

   for 
  artistic 
  skill, 
  whilst 
  his 
  uncle, 
  E. 
  H. 
  Baily, 
  B.A., 
  was 
  the 
  well- 
  

   known 
  sculptor. 
  Personally, 
  the 
  object 
  of 
  these 
  notes 
  was 
  a 
  kind- 
  

  

  