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the cliauges of the geography and climate of this part of Europe, 

 and giving a systematic account of the history of our present 

 flora as indicated by the geological evidence. Tiiough but a thin 

 volume of less than 200 pages, this represented a very important 

 addition to the literature of British botany. 



In 1902 he contributed the article " Palfeo-botany Tertiary" 

 to the Eiicyclopoidia Britannica. 



In 1905 a visit to Tegelen in Holland, where some particularly 

 interesting plant-remains had been found, opened up a new field 

 of work, and in conjunction with Mrs. Reid three memoirs were 

 produced dealing with this deposit, from which a number of 

 Eastern Asiatic types were identified. A little later thei'e were 

 papers by Mr. and Mrs. Reid ou the Pre-Glacial Flora of Britain, 

 and ou the Lignite of Bovey-Tracey. In 1908 lieid went out to 

 Cyprus ou behalf of the Colonial OfBce to report on the water- 

 supply. 



In 1913, at the age of sixty, Eeid retired from the Geological 

 Survey and went to live at Milford-on-Sea, on the coast of Hamp- 

 shire, where he had purchased an acre of land in a beautiful 

 little valley and built himself a house which he called " One Acre." 

 It was an ideal situation, quite close to the geologically-famed 

 Hordle Cliffs, with their fine exposure of the Lower Headon beds, 

 rich in plant-remains. His garden contained many plants of 

 interest, especially those of genera found as fossils. 



During the too brief period of his rest from official duties 

 he published, among other works, his small book 'Submerged 

 Forests,' a paper on the plants of the late Glacial deposits of the 

 Lea Valley, and jointly with Mrs. Eeid a paper on a new fossil 

 Oorema, and a magnificent large-quarto monograph on the Pliocene 

 Floras of the Dutch-Prussian Border, in which 189 species were 

 enumerated, many of them new, and in a number of cases having 

 their nearest living representatives in the Himalayas, China and 

 Japan. This and several of the other joint works were illustrated 

 by numerous micro-photographs taken by Eeid, who was particu- 

 larly successful in their production. In conjunction with the 

 present writer, he entered upon the investigation of the fossil 

 Characeae, obtaining some important results in connection with 

 those from the Middle Purbeck beds, a preliminary rej^ort upon 

 which appeared in the ' Proceedings ' of the Eoyal Society. We 

 were engaged on a paper on the Chara-reraains of the Hordle 

 Cliffs at the time of his death. For many years he had suffered 

 from acute attacks of indigestion, latterly his heart became 

 affected, and on the 10th December, 1916, he passed away. He 

 was buried in Milford churchyard. 



He became a Fellow of the Society on 6th December, 1888, and 

 his cheery, genial personality was a familiar one at its meetings 

 for many years. He served on the Council in 1900-2 and 1905-7, 

 In 1875 he was elected F.G.S., and was ap|)ointed a Vice-President 

 of that Society in 1913. He was elected to the Eoyal Society in 

 1899. 



