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(an old name of Operculina complanata), of Professor Forbes in the 

 Proc. Geol. Soc, loc. cit., and of Dr. Wright in the Annals Nat. 

 Hist,, 2nd ser., vol. xv. p. 101, etc., is really the Heterostegina de- 

 pressa, as the Maltese specimens in the Museum of the Geological 

 Society show. See also Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xvi. p. 300, 

 note.] 



Of the Orbitoides, Dr. Adams writes, — " They are characteristic of 

 the point of transition between the Lower Limestone and the Cal- 

 careous Sandstone ; indeed, I have seen them nowhere else. They 

 are so abundant that whole masses of limestone seem to be entirely 

 composed of them ; properly speaking, they are fossils of the Lower 

 Limestone, and are frequently associated with what you name Oper- 

 culina complanata, which seems, as far as I can find out, also peculiar 

 to the same situations." The only locality that Captain Hutton 

 knows for the Orbitoides- rock " is just south of Fort Eicasoli." 



Captain Hutton believes that he has detected foraminifera in thin 

 slices of some of the hard white limestone (made up of more or less 

 rolled calcareous debris) from St. George's Bay, Malta. 



©fcttuarp Notice* 



THE EEV. DE. ANDEESON, 



OF NEWBUKGH. 



There is a solemn pleasure in paying a last tribute to those who have 

 been our friends, and those we have respected. Death draws the dark veil 

 between the living and the past away, and when one worker is taken away 

 from the grand field in which we are labouring, the last act of kindliness 

 to the departed those who are left can contribute is the record of the worth 

 of the departed. Amongst the fossils of Dura Den, the Minister of New- 

 burgh was a great and successful worker, as the fine slabs of fish in our 

 museums, and some of the best plates / in Agassiz's memorable ' Poissons 

 Fossiles,' and in his ' Gres rouge d'Ecosse ' substantially testify. As a 

 writer on geological subjects, Dr. Anderson will not take rank in highest 

 eminence, but for the work be has done in his locality, he will stand in po- 

 sition with the best of our local- workers. The Edinburgh ' Evening Cou- 

 rant ' of the 18th ult. gives a very nice notice of one that all who knew re- 

 spected for his fine personal qualities. 



The geological works published by Dr. Anderson were, — ' On the Ee- 

 mains of Man in the Superficial Drift,' ' The Course of Creation,' ' The 

 Geology of Fifeshire,' " The Geology of Scotland," in the Eev. Dr. Taylor's 

 ' History of Scotland,' and ' Dura Den,' a monograph of that remarkable 

 fossiliferous locality. Dr. Anderson, too, took a lively interest in the local 

 affairs of his district, and in the antiquities of his parish. He was also the 

 promoter of a motion in the General Assembly of 1860, for making the 

 study of natural science compulsory on students of the Established Church. 

 The testimony paid to his individual worth by the writer in the Edinburgh 

 paper referred to, will find a ready response in the hearts of all who knew 

 nim. 



