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The Conncil desire to express their regret at the loss the 

 Society hiis sustained in tlie past year by the deaths of one of 

 their Honoraiy Members, the Rev. Adam Sedgwick, also 

 of one of their Vice-Presidents, Charles Holte Bracebridge, 

 Esq., and of a Member of the Council, Thomas Thomson, 

 Esq., M.D. 



The Council cannot pass over without comment the death 

 of the Rev. A, Sedgwick, who was an Honorary Member of 

 this Society from its fomiation, and they think the following 

 brief notice of that eminent Geologist, by the Rev. P. B. 

 Brodie, is a fit tribute to his Memory. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



" The scientific world, the University of Cambridge, and 

 many sorrowing fi-iends, have sustained a heavy loss in the 

 death of the late Professor Sedgwick, Woodwardian Pro- 

 fessor of Geology, and Canon of Norwich ; and although 

 at the great age of 86, such an event was to be looked for 

 at any time, his loss will not be the less keenly felt by all 

 who knew him, and especially by his old pupils, who 

 revered and loved him. Among Geologists he was the first 

 and greatest, and from his logical mind and close powers of 

 reasoning, as well as his ardent love of truth, and dislike to 

 all theories not founded on facts, no one was better able to 

 cope with and elucidate the more difficult and complicated 

 problems of the physical structure of the earth. This was 

 shown in the able manner in which he unravelled the 

 tangled web of the intiicate Geology of the Cambrian and 

 Cumbrian rocks, and his numerous papers on this most 

 difficidt subject would at once have stamped him as a 

 Geologist of the highest order, and which the 5th Wrangler 

 of his day was so well competent to determine. The same 



