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OBITUARY NOTICE. 

 With deep regret we have to chronicle the death of A. J. Jukes- 

 Browne, which took place at Torquay on August 14 of last year, in 

 his 64th year. He was a nephew of the distinguished geologist, 

 Professor J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S., from whom he derived his compound 

 name. Educated at Cholraondeley Scliool, Highgate, and later at 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, he obtained his B.A. degree in 1874, 

 and in tlie same year received an appointment on the Geological 

 Survey of Great Britain, under Sir Andrew llamsay, which he held 

 for twenty-seven years, retiring through ill-health in 1901. He 

 became a Fellow otthe Geological Society in 1874, being awarded the 

 Lyell Fund in 1885 and the Murchison Medal in 1901 for meritorious 

 services to geological science. In 1909 he was elected to the 

 Fellowsliip of the Royal Society. He was a prolific writer on geology 

 in all its branches, and one of our principal authorities on British 

 Cretaceous rocks, liis memoirs being mainly published by the Geological 

 Survey, the Geological Society, and in the Geological Magazine. He 

 also issued some important treatises on geology, including 21te 

 Students' Handbooh of Historical Geology, The Building of the British 

 Isles : A study in Geographical Evolution, and The Students' Uandbook 

 of Stratigraphical Geology ; so popular were these works that they 

 sometimes reached two and three editions. While liis writings dealt 

 exhaustively with stratigraphy he never neglected the value of 

 palseontological details, being convinced that only by strict zonal 

 work on the fossils characterizing the different strata could accuracy 

 be attained in the classification of the sedimentary deposits. He saw 

 the necessity, therefore, of dividing the Chalk formation into zones, 

 ;ising, as previously suggested by Dr. Barrois and other workers, 

 raolluscan species, among other organisms, as index-fossils for the 

 different beds concerned. He wrote, also, on the geology of Barbados 

 in association with J. B. Harrison, and on Cyprus with C. V. Bellamy, 

 while his last published paper, undertaken in conjunction with the 

 present writer, revised the determinations of some Devonian fossils 

 from Torquay made in one of the late Bev. G. F. Whidborne's 

 memoirs, which appeared in the Geological Magazine for August last 

 year, just two weeks before he passed away. 



Jukes-Browne became a member of the Malacological Society in 

 1899, and two years later joined the Conchological Society of Great 

 Britain and Ireland. Although unable to attend meetings on account 

 of chronic constitutional weakness, he nevertheless contributed some 

 important and critical essays on the Pelecypoda, both recent and 

 fossil, which treated chiefly of hinge and other internal structures 

 in connexion with the family Veneridse. He took a warm interest 

 in the vexed question of nomenclature and was always strongly opposed 

 to the use of Bolten's names, which, however, are now very generally 

 adopted by the leading conchologists of the world. He will be 

 remembered by many of us as a voluminous correspondent, because 

 being debarred from visitins: museums or collections to examine 



