£2 PEOCEEDI>'GS OF THE 



Society dated from the 21st Jauuarv, 1892, and he was httle 

 known to the Fellows as he avoided the evening meetings, though 

 a constant reader and borrower of volumes from the library. 



[B. D. J.] 



JoH-V Elaikie was born in the year 1837 and died on the 29th 

 Mav, 1912, after a long illness. He was for many years pro- 

 prietor of the White Barn CoUiery, Kuutton,bat was at the same 

 time identified with the Xorth Staffordshire Field Club, of which 

 he was an energetic promoter, so long as his health permitted. 



His connection with the Linnean Society dated from the 6th 

 April, 1SS2, and with the Geological Society from the same year. 



His authorship seems to have been coutined to sectional and 

 other reports on botanical matters, in the local Society to which 

 allusion has already been made. [B. D. J.] 



The Eev. E. Ashingtox BrLLEX, B.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.Z.S., 

 F.K.A.I., Meuib. Malac. Soe. Londou, was born in 1850, 

 admitted a Fellow of this Society June 1, 1899, served on the 

 Council, 1903-04, and died on the 14th August, 1912. His 

 early years are reported on good authority to have been very 

 busy but uneventful. He began teaching almost as soon as 

 he left school, taking a mastership in Croydon, which with a 

 short break he held for fourteen years; during these, on account 

 of his mother's feeble health, spending all his available holidays 

 with her quietly at home. Besides leading this unselfish life, he 

 worked zealously for a long period in the cause of social purity. 

 From his ordination in 1875, with one short interval, he was 

 also engaged for thirty years in parochial work, first as a curate 

 at Croydon, then at Farleigh, and from 1883 to 1888 at 

 St, Margaret's, Westminster, under Canon Farrar, thereafter 

 holding benefices successively in Kent, Surrey, and Huntingdon- 

 shire. In 1901 he published ids treatise on " Harlyn Bay and 

 its prehistoric remains," of which the third and much enlarged 

 edition appeared last year. In this essay, full of interesting 

 information in regard to that locality, he remarks, p. 130 : — " All 

 my time and labour spent at Harlyn Bay has been amply repaid 

 by the discovery of Hygromia montivaja, Westerlund. This is a 

 Lusitanian shell, and an entirely new record for England.'*' For 

 the bearing of this discovery on the origin of our English fauna, 

 his chapter on the subject should itself be consulted. Besides his 

 actual spadework in science, he was in other ways a most efficient 

 helper in scientific efforts. In the South-Eastern Union of 

 Scientific Societies, a provincial understudy of the British Associ- 

 ation, he was successively treasurer, secretary, and vice-president, 

 in these capacities for a dozen years rendering all manner of 

 services to the Union, cordially assisted by his wife, taking trouble 

 as if he enjoyed it, and smoothing away financial difficulties as if 

 they had never existed. AVhen acting as delegate to the British 

 Association, he took a conscientious view of his duties, and made 



