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Magazine, observations made in the neighbourhood of Ferrybridge in 
the years 1826-8, and in 1832 on the Lower or Ganister Coal Series of 
Yorkshire. In 1831 he contributed to the British Association an 
account of the geology of Yorkshire, and in 1841 he acceded to the 
request of Mr. De La Beche that he would describe the palaeozoic 
fossils of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset, for the newly-organized 
Geological Survey. Some years later he was associated with Mr. 
Warrington Smyth in the Geological Survey of quarter sheets 81 
north-east and 82 north-west, which overlap to a small extent the 
boundaries of Yorkshire, and were published in 1852. hi the follow- 
ing year he issued his map of the Geology of Yorkshire, on the scale 
of five inches to a mile. In 1852 " The Rivers, Mountains, and 
Sea Coasts of Yorkshire" was published, and had a wide circulation. 
Dr. John Evans, in his anniversary address as President of the 
Geological Society of London in 1875, remarking upon the life of 
Professor Phillips, says : — It was in the year 1828, that he had 
become a Fellow of this Society, and in 1834 he was elected a Fellow 
of the Royal Society, and accepted the Professorship of Geology in 
Kings' College, London, an appointment which he held for six years. 
In 1844 he was appointed Professor of Geology in Trinity College, 
Dublin. Nine years later Professor Phillips virtually attained the 
position which he ever since occupied with so much advantage to the 
progTess of science. In the autumn of 1853 Mr. Henry Strickland 
came to a melancholy end, in a manner which gave to the scientific 
men of that day almost as severe a shock as that produced on our 
minds by the sad death of Professor Phillips ; Mr. Strickland w^as 
examining the geological structure of a railway cutting, when he was 
knocked down and killed by a passing train. The deceased gentleman 
had been engaged for some time lecturing on geology at Oxford, in 
place of Dr. Buckland, who was then unable from ill-health to perform 
the duties of his readership. Professor Phillips accepted the position 
thus vacated, and afterwards, on the death of Dr. Buckland in 1856, 
succeeded to the post of Reader in Geology in the University of 
Oxford. Of the mode in which he performed the duties of that 
important office there can be but one opinion. As a lecturer his 
qualifications were always of the highest order ; his knowledge, most 
