2 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1904 
the post of Assistant-Keeper of Geology for ten years, 
when he retired under the official regulations. During 
the remaining 12 years of his life, he continued work, 
acting as Consulting Geologist to the Dover Coal Boring 
and as an expert upon water supply. 
Mr Etheridge contributed to this Club the following 
papers :—‘On the Rheetic or Avzcula contorta Beds at 
Garden Cliff, Westbury-on- Severn, Gloucestershire ’ 
(1865); ‘Section of the Rhetic Beds at Aust Cliff’ 
(1866); ‘On the Physical Structure of the Northern 
Part of the Bristol Coal Basin, chiefly having reference to 
the Iron Ores of the Tortworth Area’ (1866) ; ‘ Supposed 
Permian Beds at Portskewet’ (1868); ‘Notes upon the 
Physical Structure of the Watchet Area, and the Relation 
of the Secondary Rocks to the Devonian Series of West 
Somerset’ (1873). His memoir, “On the Geological 
Position and Geographical Distribution of the Reptilian 
or Dolomitic Conglomerate of the Bristol Area, which 
appeared in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological 
Society in 1870, was a valuable contribution to the geology 
of this district; and the same may be said of his paper in 
the Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists’ Society (1872) 
‘On the Rhetic Beds of Penarth and Lavernock.’ His 
contributions to science outside our area were numerous 
and important. I may mention especially his paper ‘On 
the Physical Structure of North Devon, and on the 
Paleontological Value of the Devonian Fossils,’ his 
‘ Stratigraphical Geology and Palzontology,’ a new and 
revised edition of Phillips’s Manual, and his palzeontologi- 
cal appendices to Geological Survey Memoirs. 
Mr Etheridge’s abundant labours were frequently ac- 
knowledged by the approbation of the scientific world. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 
1854, and held the Presidential office from 1880 to 1882. 
The Council of the Society awarded him the Woollaston 
