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and Mr. Hunter had formerly sent Lome, as well as others that he now 

 brought, both from the vicinity of Nagpur and from Rajamandri ; and the 

 results of this labour of love appeared as a memoir in the ' J ournal of the 

 Geological Society,' vol. xvi., illustrated with six plates, chiefly from his 

 own drawings. The fossil insects and Cypridae of Nagpur were at the 

 same time described by his friends A. Murray, E.R.S.E., and Rupert 

 Jones, F.G.S. 



Returning to India early in 1861, he wrote a succinct account of his views 

 of the age and relationship of the red sandstones, coal, and other beds of 

 Central India, on board the steamer, and communicated it to the Geo- 

 logical Society as a companion paper to Sir C. Bunbury's memoir on the 

 fossil plants of Nagpur and Mangali, both appearing in the seventeenth 

 volume of the Society's journal. Later in the same year an extract from 

 one of his letters appeared in the same journal (vol. xviii.), on the age of 

 the Kotah limestone, w r hich lies on sandstone containing plant-remains, 

 and equivalent to that near JNagpur. 



Mr. Hislop had also communicated the results of his geological re- 

 searches to the Bombay Asiatic Society's Journal ; his latest memoir in 

 that work, we believe, is in vol. vi. 



The results of the geological labours of our deceased friend are of much 

 importance in the natural history of Central India, and, indeed, throw 

 light on the age of the coal-series of Bengal also. The great fern-leaves, 

 stems of trees, and other plant-remains from near Nagpur ; the plants and 

 reptiles, fishes and Estherise from Mangali ; the Ceratodi from Maledi ; 

 the fishes and other fossils from ELotah, as well as the manifold fossil 

 forms from the Tertiary beds of the Deccan, all help, or will help, in indi- 

 cating the relative ages of the Indian strata, and putting them in geolo- 

 gical order, adding knowledge for the scientific geologist, and, thereby, 

 guidance for the practical man. 



The earnestness and clearness of his work, whether in the field or at home, 

 were equalled by Mr. Hislop's desire to be just to fellow-labourers and 

 earlier observers, and by his modest avoidance of notoriety as a geologist 

 and naturalist. With his equally enlightened colleague he had gleaned 

 much in the JNagpur field of natural history, and when, after the Indian 

 rebellion (daring which a friendly native warned him in time to save 

 JNTagpur from the threatened evil), he lost his colleague, — retiring with 

 broken health, — he still gave all the leisure that he conscientiously could 

 spare from his more important duties to collecting and observing, his 

 periodical tours of inspection and instruction affording almost his only 

 opportunities. A faithful native, Vira, served him as a collector, being 

 occasionally sent to considerable distances for fossils. At one of Vira's 

 last visits to Maledi (1863), he discovered a valuable series of reptilian 

 bones and teeth. 



As helps in studying the fossil forms of life in India, Mr. Hislop lost 

 no opportunity of collecting and observing recent animals and plants of 

 kinds similar to the extinct ; and these he freely communicated to natural- 

 ists in India and England. Some small bivalve Crustacea collected by him 

 from the ponds and streams of Nagpur have been described by Dr. Baird, 

 and allied fossil forms from Naghur and Mangali by Mr. Rupert Jones. 



Taken away suddenly from his family, his friends, and his native church 

 and schools, he will live in our memory as a beloved man, just and good, 

 and as an acute observer, cautious and conscientious ; not courting praise, 

 nor even notice, but delighting in w r ork and truth as a loving student of 

 nature and a faithful servant of God. T. R. J. 



