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operation of Mr. Claudet and himself in the condact of a work at 

 Widnes, in which copper, silver, and gold were extracted from 

 " burnt " Spanish pyrites, placed him in a more favourable position. 



He became a Fellow of the Geological Society, and in the ' Quar- 

 terly Journal ' of that Society, in the ' Philosophical Magazine,' as 

 also in our own ' Proceedings ' and elsewhere, he brought out a long 

 series of papers descriptive of results of chemical analysis and of 

 microscopic work as bearing on mining and geological subjects. 

 Among these some of the more notable were those on the phonolite 

 of the Wolf Rock, on the salt spring at Wheal Seton Copper Mine, on 

 the " greenstones " of Cornwall, in which he confirmed the views of 

 Mr. Allport as to the great extent to which rocks, originally augitic, 

 have been converted into varieties of a hornblende character. This 

 he followed up by observations on chemical and mineralogical changes 

 which have taken place in the igneous rocks of North Wales ; and in 

 a generally interesting paper in 1875 he showed reasons for calling in 

 question the startling generalisation of Mr. Sorby as to the depth and 

 pressure under which the granitic rocks had been formed. 



Numerous observations had before been made on the subject of the 

 dark enclosures — whether rounded or angular — which so often occur 

 in granite; but Mr. Phillips seems to have been the first to apply 

 (1879) a series of analyses and microscopical investigations to the 

 question, although only confirming, after all, the old opinion that 

 some of them are concretionary, others only fragments. 



Meanwhile, at various intervals several larger works had issued 

 from his pen — an elementary, and then a fuller Manual of Metallurgy, 

 a treatise on the Mining and Metallurgy of Gold and Silver, a very 

 full compilation from well-selected sources on Ore Deposits ; and at 

 the very last he was occupied in bringing out a new edition of his 

 Metallurgy. 



Mr. Phillips, on coming from Lancashire to reside in London, added 

 greatly to his circle of friends by his generous and outspoken cha- , 

 racter, and his good common sense and special knowledge will be 

 seriously missed at the council tables of Societies at which he was a 

 frequent attendant. 



W. W. S. 



Joseph Baxendell was born in Manchester in 1815, and died at 

 Southport on October 7th, 1887. Having to make his way in the 

 world he was sent to sea at an early age. It is believed that the 

 circumstances of his profession led him to recognise the immense 

 importance of the two great branches of observational science 

 astronomy and meteorology, and to interest himself in their cultiva- 

 tion. 



With this object in view he was assiduous in supplementing the 



