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Ordinary Meeting, Febiiiary 4tli, 1873. 



J. P. Joule, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Szc, President, in the 



Chair. 



E. W. BiNXEY, V.P., F.R.S., said tliat the Society had lost 

 one of its most illustrious Honorary Members by the death 

 of the Rev. Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S., Woodwardian Professor 

 of Geology in the University of Cambridge, a great and 

 good man, whose loss it will be hard to replace. All who 

 had the pleasure of his acquaintance have to deplore the 

 removal of one of the kindest and h eartiest of friends, as well 

 as one of the most eminent geologists of this century. His 

 published papers in the Royal Society's Catalogue, sole and 

 joint, amount to 58. The part of his labours which I have 

 been best acquainted with are the memoirs on the Maone- 

 sium Limestone and Lower Portions of the New Red Sand- 

 stone now known as Permian strata in the North of Enoiand 

 For patient research and sound conclusions they are models 

 for all future workers in the same field. Never was a more 

 generous or willing friend to the humble worker in science. 

 Many years since, on the death of that excellent naturalist 

 the late Samuel Gibson, of Hebden Bridge, blacksmith, the 

 deceased Professor with other friends, lent a ready hand in 

 raising a fund for the widow and family. During a long 

 illness poor Gibson had been compelled to part with his 

 collection of British insects in thirty-four cases to a neigh- 

 bour for as many shillings. In order to make as much 

 money as possible by a sale of what was left of his things, 

 the purchaser of the insects was asked to return them on 

 Pkoceedi>^G3— Lit. & Phil. Soc— Vol, XTI.— No. 6.— Session 1872-3. 



