IX PBOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May IQOOy 



in which the British Palaeozoic Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum 

 are described, and the Palaeontology of Victoria. He was the 

 founder of the National Museum at Melbourne, of which he held 

 the Directorship until his death, and was also Palaeontologist to the 

 Geological Survey of Victoria. 



The only paper that we had from him is a short criticism on some 

 supposed fish-remains, published in 1853 ; but he contributed many 

 to the ' Annals & Magazine of Natural History ' and to the Eoyal 

 Society of Victoria. 



Many honours were conferred on him, and he was recognized as 

 the leading scientific man in Australia. 1 



John Baldry Redman was elected a Fellow in 1882, and died on 

 December 21st, 1899, at the age of 83. He was elected an Associate 

 of the Institution of Civil Engineers in February 1839, and a Member 

 in March 1846, his name being the oldest on the roll of over 6300 

 Members and Associates at the time of his death. 



He did much service to geology by his important papers, read to 

 the above-named Institution, ' On the Alluvial Formations & the 

 Local Changes of the South Coast of England,' and ' The East 

 Coast between the Thames & the Wash Estuaries,' published in 1854 

 and 1865, which gave the first systematic account of the changes 

 along a great length of our coast, in this case from Norfolk south- 

 ward to Dorset. Much other work of the kind was also done 

 by him, for instance in the Keports of the British Association 

 Committee on Coast-erosion, and his knowledge was always freely 

 placed at the disposal of those interested in the subject. 



John Kusein, who was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1840, 

 and died on January 20th, 1900, was one of our oldest Fellows, there 

 remaining, indeed, but two senior to him. His career and his great 

 services to art and to literature have been recorded in many public 

 cations ; but we must not forget his services to our science, in directing 

 the attention of artists and others to the effect of geological structure 

 and of the characters of rocks on scenery. This is especially 

 exemplified in what is, perhaps, his greatest work, 'Modern 

 Painters,' and I would refer to four chapters of vol. i, entitled 

 'Truth of Earth' (pp. 265-319), and to the magnificent fourth 

 volume, devoted to ' Mountain Beauty,' eleven chapters of which 



1 See also Greol. Mag. 1899, pp. 283-87, with a list of his papers, and the 

 Year-book of the Eoyal Society for 1900, pp. 196-98. 



