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THE GEOLOGIST. 



Hill. The direction of the striations is N. 30° W., and the elevation about 

 120 feet above high-water level. 



" On the Thickness of the Bunter and Keuper Formations in the Country 

 around Liverpool." By G. H. Morton, F.G.S. The author gave (he re- 

 sults of recent measurements of the Triassic strata around Liverpool, and 

 exhibited a section of the Keuper Sandstone of Storeton and Wapping 

 tunnel. The following shows the results that he had obtained : — Keuper 

 formation — Red Marl, 100 feet ; Upper Shales, or Waterstone, 75 feet ; 

 Upper Sandstone, red and yellow, 150 feet ; Lower Shales, 50 feet ; Lower 

 Sandstone, yellow and white, with conglomerate base, 175 feet : Bunter 

 formations — Upper soft yellow Sandstone, 100 feet ; Upper soft red and 

 variegated Sandstone, 300 feet ; Pebble-beds, 350 feet ; Lower soft red and 

 variegated Sandstone, base yellow, 400 feet ; total, 1700 feet. The Upper 

 Shales may be above 75 feet ; that is the apparent thickness. The Lower 

 soft red and variegated Sandstone may possibly exceed 400 feet, for its 

 actual base is not seen. 



©frttuarg Notice* 



THE REV. STEPHEN HISLOP, 



OF NAGPUE. 



We sincerely regret to see a paragraph in the newspapers announcing 

 the decease of the Rev. Stephen Hislop, of JNagpur, Missionary of the Free 

 Church of Scotland, who was drowned, near JNagpur, on the evening of 

 September 4th of this year. He was not only a highly esteemed Christian 

 minister and most amiable man, possessing great influence with the natives 

 of Central India, but he was also a good geologist, hard-working, clear- 

 sighted, and cautious. 



Several years ago (1853) the Rev. S. Hislop and his then colleague, the 

 Rev. R. Hunter, observed that the tablets of reddish sandstone that served 

 the native school- children for " slates " bore fossil remains of plants ; and 

 tracing the stones to the quarry from which they were obtained, they dis- 

 covered abundant vegetable fossils ; and, collecting them with care, they 

 sent a large series of specimens to the Geological Society of London, most 

 of which have been since described (in 1861), by Sir C. Bunbury, in the 

 Society's Journal. They also made a careful examination of the geo- 

 logical characters of the vicinity of JNagpur, collected all the information 

 they could from memoirs and notices by early labourers in Indian geology, 

 and sent a large collection of Tertiary plant-remains, shells, insects, fishes, 

 and bones, as well as rock-specimens and minerals, from theNagpur terri- 

 tory to the Geological Society. Before long, in 1854, Messrs. Hislop and 

 Hunter communicated to that Society a memoir, giving their views as to the 

 geological structure of that country ; and an abstract was published in the 

 tenth volume of the Geol. Soc. Quart. Journ., and the memoir, in full, 

 appeared in the eleventh volume, with a geological map of the western part 

 of the Nagpur territory by the authors. Amendments of the map were sub- 

 sequently communicated by Mr. Hislop ; and in 1855 he sent home a short 

 notice on the Umret Coalfield, lying north of JNagpur, and related by 

 synchronism to the plant-beds of the latter district, as well as to the 

 Burdwan and other coals of Bengal. Having come to England, in 

 1859, Mr. Hislop undertook the description of the Tertiary shells that he 



