liv PKOCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1 895, 



having, in his younger days, numbered amongst his pupils the 

 nephews of the late Czar, Prince Nicholas, Prince Sergius, and 

 Prince Eugene ; the Queen of Wiirttemberg, the Princess Mary of 

 the Netherlands, and tbe Baroness Burdett-Coutts. 



There was a certain charm of manner about William Pengelly 

 which attracted people to him, and even his occasional brusqueness 

 of style and a touch of the pedagogue in his bearing were overlooked 

 in the change to merry roguishness which commonly characterized 

 him thirty years ago, ' when we were first acquaint ' ; indeed, so 

 pronounced was this peculiarity that, at our meetings at the 

 British Association, he was commonly known amongst his friends 

 in Section C by the sobriquet of ' Pww-gelry,' in allusion to his 

 inveterate habit of punning. 



On October 11th, 1844, Mr. Pengelly, Mr. Vivian, and 15 other 

 gentlemen met at the house of Dr. Battersby for the purpose of 

 establishing the Torquay Natural History Society, and, had Mr. 

 Pengelly lived seven months longer than he did, he would have been 

 witness of its jubilee. He was honorary secretary for nearly forty 

 years, and the last-surviving founder. Indeed, during the past fifty 

 years he has been the active spirit to whom the Society owes, not 

 only its existence, but its continued success and the high position 

 which it holds in Torquay at the present day. 



In 1850 Pengelly was elected a Pellow of the Geological Society, 

 of which he remained a member till his death, a period of forty-four 

 years. 



One of Pengelly's first recorded papers was ' On the Ichthyolites 

 of East Cornwall ' 1 (1849-50). These interesting remains were first 

 identified as Eishes by C. "W. Peach in 1843 ; after eight years they 

 were referred to Sponges under the name of Steganodictyum cornu- 

 bicum, in 1851, by M'Coy 2 ; then to the Cephalopoda by Eerd. 

 Poemer (as Archceoteuthis dunensw) in 1855 ; and back again to 

 the Eishes as Scapliaspis cornubicus 3 by Huxley in 1868. Pengelly 

 mentions, in one of his papers, that he had no fewer than 300 

 fragments of these fossil fishes from the Devonian of Cornwall and 

 Devon in his own cabinet. 4 He read a paper on ' Beekites ' before 

 the British Association in 1856, and on the ' Ossiferous Caves and 



1 Trans. Eoy. Geol. Soc. Cornwall, vol. vii. pp. 106-108 & 115-120. 



2 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. viii. (1851) p. 482. 



3 Huxley, Geol. Mag. 1868, p. 248, H. Woodward & E. E. Lankester, p. 247 

 & p. 437, and Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxiv. (1868) p. 546. 



4 Trans. Devon. Assoc, vol. ii. (1868) p. 440, and Geol. Mag. 1869, p. 77. 



