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and Mr. Hunter had formerly sent home, as well as others that he now 
brought, both from the vicinity of Nagpur and from Eajamandri ; and the 
results of this labour of love appeared as a memoir in the ' Journal 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, F.E.S.E., and Ilupert 
Jones, F.G.S. 
Eeturning 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 Xagpur 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, which lies on sandstone containing plant-remains, 
and equivalent to that near Nagpur. 
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 histor}^ 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 Kotah, 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 Nagpur field of natural history, and when, after the Indian 
rebellion (during which a friendly native warned him in time to save 
Nagpur 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 inspec tion 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 work and truth as a loving student of 
nature and a faithful servant of God. T. R. J. 
