Obituary. 159 



Key. Thomas Wiltshire, M.A. D.Sc. F.L.S. F.G.S. F.K.A.S. 



F.E.M.S. 



1826-1902. 



Thomas Wiltshire was born in the City of London on April 21, 

 1826. At the age of 19 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 and while at the University developed a taste for geology, which 

 continued to be the dominating pursuit of his after life. He took 

 his B.A. degree in 1850, and in June of the same year was ordained. 

 In 1859 he was elected President of the Geologists' Association, 

 and in 1863 became Secretary of the Palseontographical Society, 

 which office he held until 1899. From 1874 to 1878 he was one 

 of the Honorary Secretaries of the Geological Society ; in 1890 he 

 was appointed Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at King's 

 College ; in 1888 he became Master of the Clothworkers' Company ; 

 and in 1899 received the honorary degree of Doctor in Science 

 from the University of Cambridge. 



Besides being much occupied in scientific pursuits and geo- 

 logical investigations, the Eev. Dr. Wiltshire was devoted to 

 clerical work and lecturing, and it was shortly after delivering a 

 Sunday evening discourse at St. Clement's, Eastcheap, that he 

 passed quietly away after a busy life of 76 years. 



His best known communications are papers ' On the lied Chalk 

 of England,' and ' On the Ancient Flint Implements of Yorkshire 

 and the modern fabrication of similar specimens.' 



