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tions to so many scientific works, he has left testimony showing not 
only the ability of the master but the aptitude of the pupil. 
In the same year, at the age of 26, he entered upon the Geological 
Survey, and for eight years served as chief assistant to the paleonto- 
logist, Prof. Edward Forbes. Writing to his friend Dr. Grindrod, 
of Malvern, Salter says*, ‘“ From 1846 to the time of Forbes’s re- 
moval to Edinburgh in 1854, I shared with him the arrangement, 
description, and cataloguing of the public fossil collections of the 
Survey, took part in the field-work, and in all other duties shared 
the work with him and had his full approval.” 
On the retirement of Edward Forbes it was found expedient to 
separate the Lectureship on Natural History from the office of 
Paleeontologist. Prof. Huxley was accordingly appointed to the 
former post, that of Naturalist to the Geological Survey, while Mr. 
Salter was installed in the latter office. 
In consequence of the increasing extent of the labours of the 
Geological Surveyors, the examination of the Irish fossils was, in 
1856, handed over to Mr. W. Hellier Baily, and in the following 
year Mr. Robert Etheridge, having been appointed Assistant Na- 
turalist to the Geological Survey, took charge of the fossils of the 
Secondary and Tertiary formations of Britain, thus leaving Mr. Salter 
free to devote his whole energies to his favourite work—the fossils 
of the paleeozoic formations. 
During his period of office Mr. Salter prepared three Decades, with 
10 plates each (8vo size), on the Trilobites in the collection at 
Jermyn Street, and, in conjunction with Prof. Huxley, a Monograph 
on the genus Pterygotus, illustrated with sixteen folio plates. He 
also completed a Decade on the Echini, commenced by Prof. Forbes, 
and supplied a part of the paleontology to Prof. Phillips’s ‘ Memoir 
on Malvern.’ 
The paleontological portion of Prof. Ramsay’s ‘ Memoirs on North 
Wales’ was also written by Mr. Salter. 
The officer holding the position of Paleontologist to the Geologi- 
cal Survey of Great Britain has a large amount of routine work in 
examining and naming specimens and preparing lists of fossils of 
most prodigious length for the purposes of the Survey, and for exhi- 
bition in the Museum; and, added to all this, a series of demonstra- 
tions have to be given annually to the students of the School of 
Mines, on fossils characteristic of the various strata, with their range 
and distribution in time and space. 
More than thirty papers by Mr. Salter, on various geological 
topics, are to be found in the Journal of the Geological Society ; he 
also wrote in the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History,’ the 
‘Geological Magazine,’ &c. 
Four parts of a Memoir on British Trilobites, illustrated by thirty 
* The letter we refer to is dated “‘ Leicester House, Malvern, Nov. 14, 1868,” 
and is addressed to Dr. Grindrod and W. Mathews, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., and 
appears to have been intended for publication, with a view to soliciting a pension 
from Government, which, owing to his retiring at the end of 17 years’ service 
(in 1865), he was not entitled to claim. 
