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in our late Fellow. His father died while the son was young, and 

 his mother married again. Mr. Wiltshire never went to school, 

 but was prepared by a tutor for the university. He entered King's 

 College in 1845, and obtained the mathematical prize in the following 

 year ; then going to Cambridge. He graduated in 1850 from Trinity 

 College, placed among the Senior Optimes in the Mathematical 

 Tripos ; and in June of the same year was ordained deacon 

 by Dr. Murray, Bishop of Eochester, and priest in December 1853 

 by Dr. Blomfield, Bishop of London, the vear of his proceeding 

 M.A. 



He had married in 1850 ; and he threw himself into his parochial 

 duties, first as curate at Eiddings in Derbyshire, next at Bromptou, 

 and then at St. jS'icholas Olave, Bread- Street Hill, as Eector. When 

 the site of this Eectory was wanted for the District Eaii\\"ay in 

 1868, he removed to Lewisham, where he spent the rest of his life, 

 which remained connected with St. Clement's Eastcheap (Evening 

 Lectures) and St. Nicholas Cole Abbey (Curate). 



The scientific side of Mr. Wiltshire's life may be stated as 

 beginning with his election into the Geological Society in 1856. 

 In 1869 he unsuccessfully stood as candidate for Professor of 

 Geology at King's College, London ; but in 1872 he became Lec- 

 turer in Geology there, Assistant Professor in 1881, and full 

 Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in 1890 : he became Eellow 

 of that College in 1889, and retired from his Chair in 1896. His 

 first pamphlet, ' The Eed Chalk of England,' appeared in 1859, 

 followed in 1862 by 'The Ancient Flint Lnplements of York- 

 shire ' : in 1869 he brought out his ' Chief Groups of the 

 Cephalopoda' and 'The Eed Chalk of Hunstanton.' From 1863 

 to 1901 he was Secretary to the Palaeontographical Society, and 

 held similar position in the Eay Society from 1872 to the day 

 of his death. He was active also in technical education, and was 

 a member of the Council of the City and Guilds of London 

 Institute, representing the Clothworkers' Company, of which he 

 had become Freeman and subsequently Master. 



He was elected Fellow of our Society, 21st December, 1865 : 

 and was also Fellow of the Eoyal Microscopical (1857), the Eoyal 

 Astronomical (1860), the Eoyal Geographical (1866) ; a Life 

 Member of the Society of Arts (1888), and of the Geological 

 Society of France (1870). He was one of the founders of the 

 Geologists' Association, and President, 1859-60. The British 

 Association also claimed him as a member. 



The " Wiltshire Collection " of fossils was presented by him in 

 1893 to the LTniversity of Cambridge, and placed in the Wood- 

 wardian Museum ; this collection consisted of many thousand 

 specimens, and was especially rich from the Lower Greensaud, 

 Gault, Upper Greensand, and Chalk. The " Wiltshire Collection '' 

 of minerals was presented in 1897, and is now in the Mineralogical 

 Museum, Free School Lane ; it numbers 2800 specimens. In 

 1899, following these gifts, he received the Degree of Sc.D. from 

 his old University. Finally may be mentioned, a gift was made to 



