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OBITUARY NOTICE. 



JEREMIAH SLADE, F.G.S. 



Born July \Wi, 1828 ; died March 9th, 1905. 



By the death of the late Mr. Jeremiah Slade, F.G.S. , who 

 passed away March 9th, 1905, at the ripe age of seventy-six, of 

 pneumonia, after only a few days' illness, the Club lost one of 

 its oldest surviving members. Although not one of the original 

 founders of the Club, Mr. Slade was elected as far back as 

 December 28th, 1866, and appears to have immediately come into 

 prominence, as he was elected to the Committee in 1867, serving 

 for the usual period of three years. During this period he 

 contributed a few papers dealing with the methods of preparation, 

 and the structure of bone and shell, which will be found in the 

 first volume of the Club's journal. 



Mr. Slade had long ceased to take any active part in the 

 conduct of the Club, but he retained his interest in its welfare, 

 and his spare and active figure, giving little indication of his 

 advanced age, was familiar at the meetings up to quite a short 

 peril id before his death. He attended the special excursion to the 

 Harrow district held in June 1904, and the writer noted that he 

 bore the fatigue and entered into the enjoyment of the day's 

 excursion as well as any of his juniors. 



Outside the world of microscopy Mr. Slade was a familiar 

 figure in several circles. Born in Clerkenwell, of a prosperous 

 commercial family, he early in life developed a taste for natural 

 history. Joining the Islington Literary and Scientific Society, 

 he soon took an active part in the work of the " Philosophical 

 Class," contributing lectures on many subjects, usually connected 

 with his favourite pursuits of botany and geolo;_r\ . As an 

 outcome of these meetings arose the Geologists' Association, 

 which was founded in 1858, Mr. Slade and his friend Mr. G. 

 Potter being associated with Mr. Wakefield in its inception. 

 Mr. Slade also took an active interest in the Working Men's 

 College, Great Ormonde Street, W.C., where he was a frequent 

 lecturer, and he was one of the founders and the Hon. Secretary 

 of the North London Naturalists' Club. 



