PREFACE. 



AT their meeting of March 22, 1900, the Council resolved : 



" That the Obituaries of deceased Fellows, in addition to 

 appearing in the 'Year-Book/ be issued, either yearly 

 or at such other intervals as may seem desirable, in a 

 volume uniform with the ' Proceedings.' " 



The present volume, containing the Obituary Notices in the 

 Year-Books for 1900 and 1901 is accordingly issued, and will 

 be followed at suitable intervals by similar collections from 

 future issues of the Year-Book. 



Two or three notices will be found at the end of the collection 

 which were not included in the Year-Book for 1901. 



It has been thought convenient to add a general index to 

 all the Obituaries that have appeared in the volumes of the 

 " Proceedings " since their publication was commenced, which 

 was in vol. 10, published in 1860. 



August, 1904. In consequence of a decision to begin a new 

 Series of " Proceedings," with the page enlarged to royal octavo, 

 it has been decided to classify the obituary notices for the period 

 1900-1905 inclusive as four parts of a single volume, which will 

 rank as the final volume, LXXV, of the present Series of 

 f' Proceedings." In the present re-issue of Part i some slight 

 changes have been made, with this object in view. Parts ii and iii 

 have already been issued. A title-page and contents of the whole 

 volume will be issued along with Part iv. After the completion 

 of this volume the obituaries will be issued with the "Pro- 

 ceedings " ; they will be specially paged so as to form appendices 

 to the volumes, and may be bound separately in case it is so 

 desired. 



