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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 ' ^S^aiad '), and added 
extensively to his collection of Echinodermata. Still, nothing was pub- 
lished except a short communication (by himself and Mr. AVoodward), 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 Kev. T. Image. The rapid and extensive development of 
the use of fossil phosphates from the Upper Green sand 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 Palseoutographical 
Society. He had also prepared a geological map of the vicinity of Cam- 
bridge, of which a second edition was published (by Macmillau) 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 AVest 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 
W'ho trusted that he would long continue to hand onward that glorious 
light when they should have passed away. S. P. W. 
FOEEIGN INTELLIGEXCE. 
The topographical survey of Spain, under M. Coello, the accomplished 
geographer, is making progress. The triangles of the first order have 
