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THE GEOLOGIST. 



expense and no small amount of hardship, of which no account has been 

 published ; but there is a suite of specimens of shells, etc., collected by 

 him, in the British Museum. In 1857, he again accompanied Mr. 

 M'Andrew in a voyage to Vigo (the last cruise of the ' Naiad '), and added 

 extensively to his collection of JEchinodermata. Still, nothing was pub- 

 lished except a short communication (by himself and Mr. Woodward), in 

 the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, on the genera Synapta and 

 Cheirodota. 



During his custody of the Cambridge Geological Museum, many con- 

 siderable additions were made and arranged by Mr. Barrett : such as 

 the Saurians from the Lias, presented by Mr. T. Hawkins ; the beautiful 

 collection of Chalk fossils bequeathed by Dr. Forbes Young ; and the local 

 collection of the Bev. T. Image. The rapid and extensive development of 

 the use of fossil phosphates from the Upper Greensand around Cambridge, 

 supplied him with a new field of research ; and early in 1858 he had de- 

 tected two bird-bones, and numerous remains of several distinct species 

 of Pterodactyle (some of extraordinary size), which have been figured and 

 described by Professor Owen in the Transactions of the Palseontographical 

 Society. He had also prepared a geological map of the vicinity of Cam- 

 bridge, of which a second edition was published (by Macmillan) in the last 

 year. 



In 1859, he was appointed by Sir H. Bulwer to the important post of 

 Director of the Geological Survey of the British West Indies, chiefly, it 

 is understood, upon the recommendation of Professor Phillips. The 

 salary and allowance for expenses, £700 a year, was raised to £800 soon 

 after he had commenced his duties ; and the sphere of occupation opened 

 to him was every way worthy of his versatile and enterprising genius. 

 The number of the ' Geologist ' for last October contains a figure and 

 description of a marvellous fossil discovered by him in. Jamaica, and named 

 after him, very much against his wish. 



But although so well occupied in Jamaica, he must have retained a 

 strong regard for Cambridge, where so much of his young life was passed. 

 He had frequently lectured for Professor Sedgwick, and was such a 

 favourite, that had he been a little older, and a graduate of the University, 

 he would have been regarded as the probable successor to the Geological 

 Chair. Some time before leaving England he was persuaded to enter 

 Trinity College ; and last year, when he came over as Commissioner for 

 Jamaica to the International Exhibition, he resided and kept his Terms at 

 Cambridge. 



Of all the younger naturalists of the day he approached most nearly to 

 Professor E. Forbes, m the sweetness of his disposition, his instinctive 

 good taste, and the brightness of his intelligence ; inferior, however, to 

 Forbes in two respects, inasmuch as he never showed an aptitude for 

 public speaking or writing. It may have existed in him, and would possi- 

 bly have developed itself, had his life been spared. As it is, he served but 

 for a little space to hold the lamp of science committed to him by some 

 who trusted that he would long continue to hand onward that glorious 

 light when they should have passed away. S. P. W. 



FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. 



The topographical survey of Spain, under M. Coello, the accomplished 

 geographer, is making progress. The triangles of the first order have 



