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OBITUARY NOTICES. 



It is with much rejiret that we have to record the death ou tlie 

 17th June last of William Moss in his 70th year. 



He was one of the original members of the Society, hut being 

 a re-^ident in the jS'orth of England he was scarcely ever able to be 

 present at tlie meetings. He, however, contributed, in conjunction 

 with Mr. W. M. Webb, one paper to the "Proceedings ". Altogether he 

 was responsible between the years 1892 and 1912 for nine different 

 papers, issued in various journals, either entirely his own writing or 

 in collaboration with "VY. M. Webb, F. Paulden, and A. E. Boycott. 



His work in connexion with the Mollusca chiefly treated upon 

 some points in the anatomy of certain Helicoid forms, and with special 

 reference to the radulse and genitalia. It is curious that the last 

 paper from his pen was an obituary notice of his old friend Robert 

 Cairns, published in 1912 in the Jotirnal of Conchohgy, and in part vi 

 of that publication issued in April this year some further information 

 respecting himself is given by Mr. li. Standen. 



For twenty-three j-ears he was a member of the Conchological 

 Society, where, as a regular attendant, his genial presence was 

 greatlv appreciated. 



E. A. Smith. 



PiOBKRT Bruce Foote, F.G S., a member of the Society since 1894, 

 died in India on the 29th December, 1912, aged 78 j-ears. He Avas 

 formerly senior Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, 

 having joined the staff of that institution in 1858, retiring in 1891 

 after a service of thirty-three yeais. 



On leaving tbe Survey he became Geologist to the State of Baroda, 

 issuing a valuable report on that area of India in 1898, which was 

 published in iladras iinder the auspices of His Highness the Gaekwar 

 of Baroda. His geological researches Avere mainly restricted to the 

 Madras and Bombay Presidencies, most of his results appearing in the 

 ' Becords ' and 'Memoirs' of the Geological Survey of India. He 

 was also a great authority on the Palfeolithic period of India, being 

 specially interested in the history of flint implements. 



His malacologieal work was chiefly in connexion with the fossils 

 he collected during the various surveys in which he was engaged, 

 consisting of lists of genera characterizing the various formations. 

 One of the lists thus issued dealt with the Cretaceous fossils of 

 Trichinopoli in Southern India, which contained references to some 

 Cephalopod remains under the genera li/n/ncJwlites, Bektmiifes, 

 Ammonites, and Baculites, mention being also made of the Gastropoda 

 and Pelecypoda met with in the same series of deposits (Records 

 Geol. Survey India, vol. xii, pp. 159-61, 1879). Although a member 

 of the Society for eighteen years, he never contributed a paper to its 

 " Proceedings". 



R. B. Nkwton. 



