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Royal Society in 1872 and served for a time on the Council. 

 He was made an Honorary Member of our own Society ;n 

 1889. 



Personally, Routh was the kindliest and most unaffected of 

 men. He was fond of mountain walking and moderate climbing. 

 He kept up a keen interest in the after careers of his pupils, 

 who were wont in return to regard him with a lively affection. 

 He died on June 7th, 1907. A detailed account of his 

 scientific work appeared in Nature, vol. 76, p. 200, from the pen 

 of Professor Larmor. H. L. 



Henry Clifton Sorby. — The death is announced of 

 Dr. Henry Clifton Sorby, the eminent Yorkshire scientist ; it 

 took place at his home. Beech Hill Road, Sheffield, on the 9th 

 instant. Dr. Sorby, who was in his eighty-second year, was 

 born at Woodbourne, near Sheffield, on May 10th, 1826, was 

 primarily educated at the Collegiate School, in that city, and 

 afterwards had the advantage of private tutors. His parents 

 being sufficiently wealthy to leave him well endowed with 

 means, he was able to follow the scientific inclinations which he 

 showed from his boyhood. In this respect, he was entirely 

 self-taught, and the self-reliant methods of study he adopted 

 enabled him to break new ground, to formulate new theories, 

 and take up many aspects of scientific research, as chemist^ 

 geologist, metallographer, archaeologist, naturalist, Egyptologist, 

 and so on. As an original investigator his work has been 

 practically recognised by various learned societies. In 1853 he 

 was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and 

 was in 1869 presented with the Wollaston Gold Medal for his 

 application of the microscope to the study of rocks. He was 

 President of the Society from 1878 to 18S0. He was elected an 

 Honorary Member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical 

 Society on December 14th, 1869. In 1857 he became a Fellow 

 of the Royal Society, and served on the Council in 1876 and 

 1S77, receiving in 1874 one of the two gold medals given by the 

 late Queen. He was one of the eighteen foreign members of 



