132 The A mrricii a Geologist. August, 188 
tione thai could explain the origin of so curious an arrange- 
ment of different minerals. At the meeting of the Geological 
Society of London, on June 7th, however, Dr. Johnson Lavis 
exhibited some ejected blocks of metamorphosed limestone 
from Monte Somma, displaying a perfect eozoonal structure. 
They have been studied most carefully by Dr. J. W. Gregory 
and himself and their microscopal characters correspond in 
all details with those of the original Canadian specimens. In 
many cases, on account of their freshness the Monte Somma 
blocks exhibit some of the pseudo-organic structure detail-, 
such as the stolon-tubes, in far greater perfection than does 
the true so-called Eozoon Canadense. — From Natural Scienct 
for J ill i/. 
Henry F. Blanford, late of the Geological Survey of 
India, died on Jan. 3, 1893. He was appointed with his 
brother M. W. T. Blanford, still living, on the staff of that sur- 
vey in 1855, and served on it for seven years. In his investi- 
gation of the Talchir coal-field he observed and called 
attention to the remarkable boulder-bed which has been often 
adduced in evidence of the occurrence of a glacial era in 
Carboniferous time. Later he surveyed the Cretaceous beds 
near Trichinopoly and Pondicherry, his work being mainly 
pala?ontological. An account of the Nautilidse and the Beleru- 
nitidae was published in 1862, and with it a sketch of the 
geology of the Neilgherry Hills. 
In later years and after his retirement from the survey Mr. 
Blanford chiefly occupied himself with Meteorology, especially 
that of India, and when the Department of Meteorology was 
established at Calcutta he was placed at its head. He finally 
retired in 1888 and lived thereafter in the south of England. 
at Folkestone. 
Mr. Blanford became a Fellow of the Geological Society of 
London in 1862, and of the Royal Society in 1880. He was 
president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1884 and 1885. 
Dr. I. C. White, of Morgantown, W. Va.. is in Chicago 
serving as one of the Judges of Awards in the Mines and 
Mining department of the Columbian Exposition. He was 
unanimously chosen President of the Mines and Mining 
Judges at their meeting for organization, July 15th, and pre- 
sided that day, and also on the following Monday, but 
Tuesday morning he found himself suffering from an acute 
attack of malaria, and unable to leave his room. As his 
condition did not seem to improve, he resigned the presidency 
of the Committee on Thursday morning, and Dr. Howe, of 
Boston, was elected his successor. Dr. White is now (24th) 
convalescent, however, and expects to resume his duties as 
one of the judges in a day or two. 
