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which lie appHed the results of his scientific investigations to the 

 improvement of engineering practice. He was a man of strong 

 oi)inions on engineering questions, and vigorously supported 

 his opinions when attacked. His personal integrity, straight- 

 forward character, and sympathy with scientific difficulties 

 endeared him to his colleagues, while his vigorous personality 

 and ability as a teacher made a strong and lasting impression on 

 all his students. Owing to his increasing deafness he was unable 

 in recent years to take that active part in administrative matters 

 for which his wide outlook well fitted him. His premature 

 death is a great loss to science, and will be much regretted, not 

 only by his colleagues both in Manchester and Montreal, but 

 by a wide circle of friends. E. R. 



William Henry Sutcliffk, born at Ashton in 1S55, wns 

 educated at the IManchester Grammar School and subsequently 

 attended classes in Geology under Professor Boyd Dawkins at 

 the Owens College. Though he had to devote his energies to 

 an industrial career, in which he attained a distinguished 

 position as the successful manager of a large Cotton Mill in 

 Littleborough, he always retained his early interest in geological 

 and arch?eoloL;ical pursuits and remained a hard worker and 

 keen student of both branches of science. His holidays were 

 usually devoted to scientific quests, and the collections of the 

 Manchester Museum and of the Grammar School were 

 frequently enriched by generous gifts of some of his most 

 valuable finds, foremost among which may be mentioned the 

 superb specimen of Plesiosauriis from Whitby, now in the Man- 

 chester Museum. He will always be remembered by 

 palaeobotanists for the generous way in which on more than one 

 occasion, he opened out the disused coal mine close to his mill 

 at Shore, to provide a new store of valuable coal balls containing 

 beautifully preserved plant-remains. These yielded numerous 

 forms new to science, several of which, such as Suicliffia, bear 

 his name ; but with innate modesty he asked his paljeobotanical 



