journal of the Kilkenny Archæological Society. However, it was intended to publish a full account, but the death of the proprietor, Mr. Nappen, of Loughern, delayed it, and now it is to be hoped that the lamented and early death of Mr. Du Noyer will not deprive the archæological world of this treat. Of late years he had paid particular attention to the Megalithic structures known by the general name of Cromlechs, and was publishing in the Journal of the Historical and Archæological Association of Ireland an interesting and most instructive series of papers showing their mode of construction and their uses. The principle official geological publications with which Mr. Du Noyer was connected, are as follows:-Forty-eight sheets of the Map of Ireland, with seventeen memoirs. Of the latter, those calling for special notice are the explanations to accompany sheets 102 and 112; sheets 160, 161, and 172; sheets 167, 168, 178, and 179; sheet 184; also sheets 185, 186. The two last memoirs illustrate the parts of Cork and Kerry in the neighbourhood of the far-famed lakes of Killarney, they being enriched by thirteen of the author's sketches-all so spirited, that it is impossible to say which is the best, besides numerous maps and diagrams. The first of those enumerated above illustrates parts of the counties of Dublin and Meath; the second, the Dingle promontory in the county of Kerry, and the third, parts of the counties of Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny, and Tipperary. To the last two, we would draw particular attention, more especially on account of the sketches, which for truthfullness and artistic skill will be rivalled in few, if any, geological works, and the loss of whose author will, we fear, subtract not a little from the beauty and interest of the future memoirs of the Geological Survey of Ireland. Mr. Du Noyer was of French extraction, he being the lineal descendant of the Chevalier du Noyer, his ancestors having come to Ireland as refugees. He was a Royal Arch Mason, having been initiated into that ancient order under the warrant of the Clonmel Lodge. By his death the post of District Surveyor of the Geological Survey of Ireland is vacant. In the middle of December he delivered interesting and instructive lectures to the inhabitants of Belfast. At the first meetings in this year both the members of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland had to lament the loss of one of their most eminent fellows, and-to many-of an intimate friend. At the meeting of each of these Societies his extreme private worth and his valuable services to his adopted country were mentioned, and resolutions were passed that the influences of the Societies should be used, in the hope that his long and faithful services may be recognised by Her Majesty's Government granting a pension to his widow. We heartily join in the hope that the influence of these Societies may not be exerted in vain.-G.H.K. JAMES DAVID FORBES, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.L. & E., F.G.S., Principal of St. Salvator's and St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews, was the youngest son of Sir William Forbes, the seventh Baronet of Pitsligo, in the county of Aberdeen. His death has just been recorded (see Illustrated London News, Jan. 16, 1869). Principal Forbes was born April 20, 1808, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he obtained several prizes, and where he held the Professorship of Natural Philosophy from 1833 until 1860. He was the author of several papers on heat, and other works on Physical Science; "Travels in the Alps of Savoy," "Norway and its Glaciers," "Papers on the Theory of Glaciers," etc. He received the Keith medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Rumford and Royal medals of the Royal Society of London, for various papers he prepared, and which were published in the Transactions of those bodies. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1831, but read no papers before that Society. he married Alicia, daughter of George Wauchope, Esq., of Edinburgh, and by her, who survives him, he leaves issue two sons and two daughters. Principal Forbes is succeeded in the College at St. Andrews by Professor J. C. Shairp, M.A. MISCELLANEOUS. In 1843 LITHODOMOUS BORINGS 667 FT. ABOVE THE SEA.-Mr. Mackintosh, F.G.S., who wrote on Pholas-borings near Torquay, in this MAGAZINE for July, 1867, has just discovered what he believes to be Lithodomous perforations up to 667 ft. above the sea on the eastern side of Hampsfell, on the border of Morecambe Bay. It is with great difficulty they can be detected at high altitudes, as they almost invariably occur on the protected or overhanging sides of rocks or boulders. It would appear that up to 250 ft. above the sea, Mr. Boulton and other inhabitants of Furness have been familiar with these perforations for many years, without having studied their importance in a theoretical point of view. Though rain has made numerous rough holes in limestone rocks, Mr. Mackintosh contends that the above smoothly ground-out perforations (some of which run into and through fossils, and most of which ignore the composition of the rock) could not have been formed by rain, as nearly all of them occur in positions to which rain could never have had access.— Abridged from the Ulverstone Advertiser of Jan. 7, 1869. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.-Various changes have taken place in the staff of this Society. 1. Mr. Henry M. Jenkins, F.G.S., who has for the past six years so ably filled the post of Assistant Secretary, has been appointed to the position of Secretary and Editor to the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Mr. W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., who, during the past ten years, has been the Curator to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society's Museum at York, has been elected to the post of Assistant Secretary, Librarian, and Curator in the room of Mr. Jenkins. 2. Mr. Skertchly, the Library Assistant, has resigned, in order to accompany Messrs. Bauerman and Lord to Egypt. Mr. Frederick Waterhouse, second son of G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., Keeper of the Geological Department, British Museum, has been elected in Mr. Skertchly's stead. THE GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. No. LVII.-MARCH, 1869. ORIGINAL ARTICLES: I-ON BEANIA, A NEW GENUS OF CYCADEAN FRUIT, FROM THE YORKSHIRE OOLITES. THE By WM. CARRUTHERS, F.L.S., F.G.S., of the British Museum. (PLATE IV.) THE remarkable organs which are frequently associated with the Zamia gigas of Lindley and Hutton, and which have always been considered as in some way connected with the fructification of that plant, are the only fossils that can be referred to Cycadean fruits that have been hitherto observed in the Yorkshire Oolites, in which the remains of Cycadean leaves are so abundant. These organs have been made the subject of an elaborate memoir by Professor Williamson, presented to the Linnean Society some months since, and which it is to be hoped will soon appear in the Transactions of that Society. He has brought together so many observations, made during a life-acquaintance with these beds, that he has been. able to re-construct, with every appearance of truth on his side, a singular genus, containing two well-marked species, and forming a new tribe of Cycadea very different from any living form. Fruits closely related to those of the recent Cycadea have been found in Oolitic strata. Lindley and Hutton described, as a Pinus, a cone from the Inferior Oolite, which in a former communication to this Magazine (Vol IV. p. 101), I showed to be Cycadean, and named Cycadeostrobus primavus; and in the same paper I described a second species from the Oxford clay of Wiltshire, (C. sphæricus). I now add a third from Phillips's "Upper Shale" at Scarborough, which though agreeing in all essential points with the two species named, and with the living forms to which they are related, yet differs sufficiently to demand its being placed in a distinct genus. My colleague, Mr. Woodward, drew my attention to this interesting fruit, in that part of the Bean collection acquired some years since by the British Museum. It is not associated with any Cycadean remains on the small slab on which it occurs, so that there is no indication to which of the several leaf-species it belongs. I hope the publication of this notice, accompanied with Mr. Smith's admirable illustration, may bring to light other specimens that will supply this desirable information. A small fragment of Acrostichites Williamsonis, Brongn., occurs on the slab. VOL. VI.-NO. LVII. 7 |