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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 I 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 Waterstoue, 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— L^pper 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. 
©bituarg i^otice. 
THE REV. STEPHEN HISLOP, 
OF NAGP.UE. 
We sincerely regret to see a paragraph in the newspapers announcing 
the decease of the Rev. Stephen Hislop, of Nagpur, Missionary of the Free 
Church of Scotland, who was drowned, near 2s agpur, 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 jN^agpur, 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 the Nagpur 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. Soe. Quart. Journ., and the memoir, in full, 
appeared in the eleventh volume, with a geological map of the western part 
of the ]N'agpur 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 L'mret Coalfield, lying north of jN^agpur, 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 
