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value of his work. One of his latest and most important contribu- 

 tions to science was the editing of the two volumes on Scottish 

 Mineralogy left unpublished by the late Prof. Heddle, a task which 

 involved an almost incredible amount of labour. His health had 

 been failing for some time, and at last after a lingering illness he 

 died on the 21st of last February. 



William Paget Jeevis was born in 1831 in India, where his 

 father was engaged on the Topographical Survey. He was brought 

 to this country in 1842, and attended lectures at the Royal Institu- 

 tion which appear to have stimulated in him a taste for geology and 

 mineralogy. He would seem to have also acquired some practical 

 knowledge of mining at Hayle in Cornwall, and after his father's 

 death in 1857 to have studied at some of the science-classes of the 

 University of Edinburgh. A year or two afterwards he was 

 appointed Curator of the Italian Industrial Museum at Turin, in 

 the foundation and arrangement of which he had been invited to 

 assist. Prom that time he continued to reside in Italy, and to 

 labour incessantly in gathering information regarding the distribu- 

 tion of useful minerals and rocks, first in Tuscany and then all over 

 Italy. He began to publish notes on this subject at least as early 

 as 1860, for a paper on some of the mineral products of Tuscany 

 by him appears in our Quarterly Journal for that year. His 

 writings are partly in English, but eventually for the most part in 

 Italian. His most important work is his ' Tesori Sotterranei dell' 

 Italia,' which appeared in a succession of volumes between the years 

 1873 and 1889. These are mainly statistical, giving the occurrence 

 and distribution of rocks and minerals in the various provinces, but 

 with occasional passages of more general interest. The four volumes 

 evince enormous labour, and form a useful compendium of inform- 

 ation. Jervis attended various International Exhibitions as one of 

 the representatives of Italy, such as those of London in 1862, Dublin 

 in 1865, and Paris in 1878. For these and his other services to his 

 adopted country he was created a Cavaliere by the King of Italy. . 

 He had been elected an Ordinary Fellow of our Society as far back 

 as 1860. He died at Turin on February 18th, 1906. 



We have to chronicle this year the death of one of the oldest 

 Fellows of the Society, William Cunnlstgton, who, born in 1S13, 

 died last February at the advanced age of 93. Though he wrote 



