384 Obituary — Dr. Bryce . — Miscellaneous, 
no%v. In recognition of his Services in tliis and otlier capacities. his 
Alma Mater in 1855 conferred tbe degree of LL.D. Three years 
ago he retired from scholastic work, and came to reside in Edin- 
burgh, where, as in the West, his genial disposition, not less than 
his intellectual activity and varied acquirements, soon gained him a 
wide circle of friends. Prominent for many years among Scotch 
educationists, Dr. Bryce took an active part in founding the Educa- 
tional Institute, of which he was President in 1852. In 1874 he 
was President of the Association of Higher Class Public School- 
masters ; and within the last few months he acted as secretary to 
the committee for securing the continuance of the Scotch Education 
Board. His contributions to educational literature were numerous, 
but to the general public he was perhaps better known as an inde- 
fatigable geologist. When quite a young man, he contributed many 
papers to scientific Journals upon geological subjects, and in 1834 he 
became a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. When resident 
in Belfast, he carefully investigated the geology of Antrim, and parti- 
cularly of the Giants’ Causeway, and these researches, the results of 
which were published from time to time, threw not a little light on 
the character of basaltie formations. After removing to Glasgow, he 
devoted much attention to Arran, and in due time produced an 
excellent work on the geology of that remarkable island, now in its 
second edition. He made another important contribution to the 
London Geological Society on the rooks of Skye and Raasay. In 
Glasgow, Dr. Bryce took a warm filterest in the proceedings of the 
Philosophical Society, of which he was President for two years. As 
convener of the British Association’s Committee on Earthquakes, he 
conducted experiments at Comrie, regarding which interesting re- 
ports were made. Düring the three years he resided in Edinburgh, 
lie was assiduous in attendance at the meetings of various scientific 
societies. Of the Royal Society he was a fellow and councillor ; and 
of the Geological Society a fellow . and senior Vice-President. Dr. 
Bryce, it may be also mentioned, was editor of a Cyclopasdia of 
Physical Geography. For several years he has been working at the 
geology of the North West Highlands, to which he made manv 
excursions. He was a keen and intelligent observer of geological 
facts ; and outside the family circle seemed neYer happier than when 
travelling, hammer in hand, through a district which promised to 
re ward research. It is a melancholy coincidence, that it had been 
intended to ask Dr. Bryce to lead the next excursion of the Invemess 
Field Club to the very glen in which he has so suddenlv closed an 
active and useful career . — The Weelcly Scotsman, July 14th, 1877. 
MISCELLAITEOUS. 
Dixon’s Geology of Sussex. 4to. 1850, pp. 454, with 60 tVoodcuts and 44 
Plates. — This fine work, published after Mr. Frederick Dixou’s death, under the 
able editorship of Professor Owen, C.B., assisted by Professors Thos. Bell, F.E.S., 
Edward Forbes, F.R.S., Mr. Wm. Lonsdale, F.H.S., Mr. James De Carle Sowerby, 
and Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P., F. R.S., is, we understand, after an in terra 1 
of twenty-seven years, to see a second edition, prepared by Professor T. Rupert Jones, 
F.R.S., F.G.S. ; assisted by Professor Owen, C.B., and numerous otlier geological and 
paheontological friends. To be published by "W. J. Smith, Brighton. 
