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As above stated, Lonsdale resigned his post in connection with 

 the Geological Society in 1842. He then went for a short time 

 into Devonshire for his health, and afterwards for some time lived 

 at Melksham and at various places in Somersetshire until he 

 removed to Bristol. During his later days he sought retirement, 

 and it was frequently impossible without great difficulty for his 

 Geological friends to know how to communicate with him. For 

 many years previous to his death his name appeared in the list of 

 the Geological Society without any address attached to it, and he 

 frequently changed his place of abode. At the time of the British 

 Association meeting at Bath in 1864 he was living at Catherine 

 Place, Bristol, where Sir Roderick Murchison visited him. He^ 

 afterwards moved to City Road, Bristol, where on the 11th Nov., 

 1871, he died at the age of 77, and was buried at Arno's Vale 

 Cemetery, being followed to the grave only by Captain Lonsdale 

 and Mr. W. W. Stoddart, F.G.S. 



A relative of his writes to me : — 



" Though he did not apply to be again employed, he always appeared to 

 have liked the life he had in the army, and had always a strong interest in 

 military matters, and especially in his old regiment. He worked hard for 

 Geology, but with us he was the old soldier to the last." 



His Papers. — Lonsdale's papers, communicated to the Geological 

 Society, are as follows : — 



" On the Oolitic District of Bath." Trans., ser. 2, vol. iii., pp. 241 to 276. 

 1829. 



" Report of a Survey of the Oolitic Formations of Gloucestershire." 

 Proc, vol. i., p. 413. 1832. 



" On the Age of the Limestones of South Devonshire." Trans., ser. 2, 

 vol. v., pp. 721 to 738. 1840. 



Three papers on Polyparia from America in Journal vol. i. 1845. 



" On Fossil Zoophytes found in the Section from Atherfieldto Eocken End , 

 Isle of Wight." Journal, vol. v., pp. 65 to 103. 1848. 



Two of these papers we must briefly notice. 

 " On the Oolitic District of Bath." Trans., ser. 2, vol. iii., p. 241. 

 — It was read on the 6th Feb., 1829, and he mentions that it was 

 prepared at the suggestion of Dr. Fitton and Mr. Delabeche, from 

 the notes which a residence here had enabled him to make. The 

 sources, beyond his own observations, from which he obtained 

 information, he tells us were Smith's map of Wiltshire, Conybeare 



