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THE LATE HENRY COLLEY MARCH, M.D., F.S.A., J.P. 



By NELSON MOORE RICHARDSON, B.A. 



N the death of Dr. Henry Colley March, which 

 took place at his residence, Nethergrove, 

 Portesham, on Tuesday, February 15th, 1916, 

 the Dorset Field Club has sustained one of 

 its greatest losses in recent years. Though 

 by no means one of the oldest members, his 

 election having taken place on February llth, 

 1896, he has always been in the front rank 

 of its antiquaries, while taking also an interest 

 in general Natural History and more especially in Geology, 

 in which he has among other things brought together some 

 valuable evidence as to the existence of an ice sheet in Dorset 

 as well as in more northern latitudes. (See Proc. D.F.C., 

 XIX., 130.) A paper on Lynchets (Proc. D.F.C., XXIV., 

 67) dealt with the different modes of origin ascribed to them 

 a nd the results of some of his investigations. With the 



