CX. HENRY STORKS EATON, M.A. 



Council in 1865, was three times Vice-President, and became 

 President in 1876-7. He was largely instrumental in providing 

 an office for the Society and active in its behalf in many other 

 ways. During his presidency he entertained with his usual 

 hospitality the Permanent Committee of the International 

 Meteorological Conference, which met that year in London ; in 

 the same year also ladies were first admitted as Fellows of the 

 Society. His principal compilations were on the average height 

 of the barometer in London for 100 years and on the mean 

 temperature of the air at Greenwich from 1811 to 1856. 



Whilst living at Croydon he belonged to the Croydon Micro- 

 scopical and Natural History Club, of which he was President in 

 1888-9, and prepared an elaborate report on the temperature and 

 rainfall of the district for the years 1881-5, as we ^ as taking 

 a prominent part in the superintendence of the daily rainfall 

 returns. 



After leaving Croydon he spent much of his time in Dorset, 

 and did much work for the Dorset Field Club, as above described. 

 He suffered greatly in his latter years from rheumatism and 

 partial paralysis, and died at Ilfracombe on February 7th, 1909. 

 He married in 1864 Grace A. C. Beardmore, the daughter of the 

 above-mentioned Mr. Nathaniel Beardmore, an old family friend. 

 She was an invalid for many years, and died in 1882, leaving no 

 children. 



He was of a most kind and amiable disposition, very hospit- 

 able, most industrious, and accurate. He possessed a good deal 

 of general information on other branches besides rainfall, but 

 from his devotion to this he never swerved, remaining faithful to 

 it from his earliest youth to the end of his career. 



N. M. RICHARDSON. 



