46 Oeneral Meelinrj Jor Fi'Jirnary, 1001. [Fed'. 



A vncau(^y having occurred owintr to the fleath of the Ri<rht Hon. 



Prof. F. iLix Muller, tlie Council recommended Prof. J. W. Judd, C.B., 



LL.D., F.R.S., for election as Hounraiy Member at the next nieeMii^. 



In accordance witli the provisions of Rule 13 the Secretary road the 



foUowing note on Prof. Jurld's work. 



Dr. Jiidd commenced his stu'ly of Science by entering the Royal 



School of Mines as a student in 18G3, when he was already 2,'?> ycais of 

 age, iiaving previously been engaged in teaching and liferarv work. 

 Notwifc'.istanding, a long and serious interruption, due to l^eing disaldod 

 in a railway accident, his brilliant geological work secured for him an 

 admission to tha Royal Society in J877 at. an unusuall}' early ao-e, soon 

 after ho had been sele ted for the chair of Greology at tlie I'nyal School 

 of Mines in succession to Sir Andrew Ramsay. In i8h.'», lie presided 

 over the Geological Section of the British Association, and in 1886 

 was elected President of the Geological Society of London, serving at 

 the same time on the Council of the Royal Society. In 1891, tlie 

 Geological Society ieco_'nised his scientific work by conferi'ing on liini 

 the highest honour at their disposal, namely, the Wollaston medal. Tn 

 1895, Prof Jiidd was appointed Dean of the Royal College of Science as 

 successor to the late RiLfht Hon. Prof. Huxley, and in I he same year 

 was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath, 



Commencing work on the Geological Survey of Euirland by 

 mapping the Mesozoic rocks of Lincolnshire and Rutland, Professor 

 Judd passed on to the secondary. rocks of Scotland, where contact witii 

 a laige number of igneous rocks led him to take up the then compara- 

 tively new study of microscopic petrography, and to apply the new 

 methods to a systematic study of the volcanoes of Hungai-y and the 

 Jilediterranean islands. To his extensive papers on these subjects the 

 rapid development of microscopic petrology was largely due. During 

 recent years Prof. Ju'ld has turned his attention to mineralogy, studying 

 especially the nature of etch-figures and the internal structure-planes 

 of crystals. Some of his papers on these subjects had beeii based on 

 Indian material, and to him we aie indebted for a study of amblystegite 

 from the Nilijiris, tourmaline and coiundum from Mysore and Rewah, 

 and, finally, an exhaustive memoir on the ruby and its associates in the 

 crystalline limestones of Bunha. Not the least atnongst the deiits 

 which India owes to Professor Judd will be found in the work of a large 

 number of pupils in different parts of the country, with whom this our 

 triiiutc to the value of his work will be specially popular. 



The General Secretary reported the presentation from the Bombay 

 Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, of a gold coin found in the Bijapur 

 District. 



