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PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Professor Ansted, however, when systematic teaching ceased to 

 be a part of his regular duties, did not abandon his interest in 

 geology as an educational subject, but not unfrequently lectured 

 and took part in examinations on this and allied sciences. His 

 pen also was rarely for long idle. He contributed three papers to 

 the Journal of the G-eological Society, two of them containing 

 descriptions of remarkable mineral veins, published in 1856 and 

 1857; his third paper was upon the geology of Malaga and the 

 southern part of Andalusia (vol. xv. 1859). Besides these contri- 

 butions to the ' Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society/ 

 he published memoirs in: — the 'Transactions of the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society' (vol. vii. 1842), "On a Portion of the 

 Tertiary Formations of Switzerland ;" in the ' Annals and Maga- 

 zine of Natural History,' " On the Zoological Condition of Chalk 

 Flints and the probable Cause of the Deposit of Flinty Strata 

 alternating with the Upper Beds of the Cretaceous Formation " 

 (vol. xii. 1844), and other like publications. He was whole or 

 part author of a considerable number of: volumes, the majority 

 of which were of a somewhat popular character ; and more than one 

 obtained a considerable share of success. He wrote lucidly 

 and pleasantly, whether upon matters directly scientific or upon 

 the incidents of travel. Among these works may be mentioned 

 the following : — ' G-eological Gossip,' first published in 1860 ; ' A 

 Short Trip to Hungary and Transylvania,' in 1862 ; ' The Ionian 

 Islands,' in the year 1863 ; and ' The Great Stone Book of Nature,' 

 published in the same year. He also published a work on Geology, 

 in two volumes, in 1844, and more than one smaller book on this 

 subject, Physiography, or Geography. He was joint author (with 

 Dr. B. G. Latham) of a work on the Channel Isles, and wrote, 

 in 1866, upon the Physical Geography and Geology of Leicester, 

 in the ' History of Leicestershire,' entering largely into the litho- 

 logy and chemistry of the Charnwood rocks, as well as devoting 

 much space to their pure and speculative geology. In the Great 

 Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862 he contributed much to the ' Beports.' 

 His latest, and one of his most important works, was on Water 

 and "Water Supply, published in 1878. Though for several years, 

 owing to pressure of business and the advance of age, he had 

 ceased to take an active part in the proceedings of many of the 

 scientific societies of which he was formerly an energetic member, 

 he did not lose that cordiality of manner and kindliness of dis- 

 position which have left a pleasant impression on the memory of 

 his friends. 



In William Hallowes Miller, Professor of Mineralogy in 

 the University of Cambridge, our Society has lost a member who, 

 though never a contributor to our Journal, was among the most 

 eminent mineralogists in Europe, and the author of valuable works 

 and papers on that science. He was born April 6th, 1801, at 

 Velindre, near Llandovery, in Caermarthenshire, at which place his 

 father, Captain Miller, had a few years previously fixed his resi- 



