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distinguished men. Though I had the privilege of the 

 personal acquaintance of all, Mr. Richard Lydekker, F.R.S., 

 whose name has been so well known for many years as one 

 of our greatest naturalists and geologists, was much the most 

 intimate friend. His first visit to me was when he described, 

 under the name of Cimoliosaurus Richardsoni, the large 

 Saurian fossil from Chickerell, which Mrs. Richardson and I 

 had then lately rescued and put together, now nearly 30 

 years ago. He was very versatile in his knowledge and 

 energetic in applying it. He wrote many learned scientific 

 monographs and other books, chiefly on Natural History and 

 Palaeontology ; and to him we owe much of the present 

 beautiful arrangements, chiefly of animals, in the British 

 Museum of Natural History, where he worked for many 

 years. His earlier geological work was done in connection 

 with the Indian Geological Survey, where he first made his 

 name. He has once or twice been present at our meetings, 

 and I remember that on one occasion when the question of 

 the identity of a certain tooth was being (I fear ignorantly) 

 discussed by some of our members, he came up and said 

 with decision that it was a pig's tooth. A bold person 

 asking how he knew it, he gave the characteristic answer, 

 " Why, what else could it possibly be ?" He has contributed 

 to our Proceedings, and has often helped both myself and the 

 Museum in the determination of specimens and in other ways. 

 I could say much more, but must proceed. Rev. Osmond 

 Fisher, elected in 1888, was one of the oldest living geologists, 

 and even at his great age took a most keen interest in his pet 

 science. It was almost entirely owing to his enthusiasm that 

 the Dewlish Elephant Trench was excavated last year, and it 

 seemed very sad that he should not have lived to hear the 

 result, though it failed to confirm a favourite theory of his 

 that it was an artificial work of prehistoric man made as a 

 trap to catch Elephas meridionalis. Our early volumes 

 contain contributions from his pen. Last, but not least, 

 we have to lament the death of Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne, 

 F.R.S., who was elected an Honorary Member of our Club 



