Bath. On these sections, which were drawn to scale, ever}^ 

 detail, however minute, that was of any physical or palseon- 

 tological importance, is accurately delineated; and their 

 value remains undiminished, even after the lapse of thirty- 

 five years. 



" Mr. Sanders, by his intimate knowledge of the Mendip 

 area, was able to render valuable assistance to his native town 

 in connection with its water-supply, and also during the sur- 

 vey of the city with reference to its sanitary condition. He 

 was also for upwards of thirty years the Honorary Secretary to 

 the Museum of Natural History attached to the Philosophical 

 Society and Institution of Bristol, and spared neither time, 

 trouble, nor expense in carrying out its legitimate objects. 

 Those who visited Bristol at the last meeting of the British 

 Association will remember the just pride which he took in 

 the geological collections in the Museum. Mr. Sanders was 

 also an ardent student of mineralogy, and well versed in 

 crystallography. 



^' He became a Fellow of this Society in 1839, and of the 

 Royal Society in 1864. Several papers on geological sub- 

 jects were read by him before the British Association 

 between the years 1840 and 1849." 



To the above well-deserved tribute it is only necessary to 

 add, as indicating the estimation in which Mr. Sanders was 

 held by his fellow-citizens as the foremost representative of 

 science amongst them, that on the foundation of our Society 

 in the year 1862 he was by common consent chosen as its 

 first President, and year after year was re-elected to the 

 same office, until the connection was severed by his lamented 

 death. 



