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Sn Memoriam, 
JOHN (W... JUDD: GBS EB Ross 
(1840—1r016). 
WE much regret to record the death of Prof. John Wesley Judd, 
which took place on March 3rd. Born at Portsmouth; he was, 
as a young man, master of a school at Horncastle; later he 
held the post of analytical chemist at Sheffield, where he made 
the friendship of Sorby. In 1867 he joined the Geological 
Survey, and later was employed in the Education Department. 
After considerable field work in Scotland, which resulted in 
many important papers, Judd visited various volcanic regions, 
and these excursions resulted in his well known work on 
‘Volcanoes.’ He was Secretary of the Geological Society 
for eight years, and its President for two years. He received 
the degree of LL.D. from the Aberdeen University in 1895. 
He was created C.B., and in 1913 was made an Emeritus Pro- 
fessor of the Royal College of Science. Prof. Judd was re- 
markable for the extraordinary variety of his memoirs, all of 
which were exceedingly well done. Referring to East York- 
shire, his paper ‘On the Speeton Clay’ (Q./.G.S., 1868 and 
1870) is a classic. In 1871 he described some curious growths 
of oysters from the Yorkshire Cornbrash; in 1888 ‘ The 
relation between Central and Local Scientific Societies {York- 
shire Geology]’; in 1908, Obituary Notice on Sorby. His 
‘ Geology of Rutlandshire ’ is one of the gems of the Geological 
Survey Memoirs. He took a considerable interest in the early 
Geological maps of Wm. Smith and other workers, and these 
he described in a series of papers in the Geological Magazine. 
In connection with this subject the writer had a letter from 
Prof. Judd, dated so recently as Feb. 4th. He twice revised 
Lyell’s ‘ Elements of Geology,’ and also wrote a book on the 
“Coming of Evolution’ for the Cambridge Press. Prof. Bonney 
gives an account of Judd’s work in Nature for March 9th.—T-S. 


-O: 
British Birds for March contains no records of new British birds seen 
in the flesh in Sussex. 
In The Entomologist’s Recovd for February, Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker 
writes on ‘The Synonomy of Zygaena, Adscita (Procris), and Amata 
(Syntomts).’ 
The Entomologist, No. 632, contains ‘Some Additions to the list of 
British Plant Galls,’ by H. J. Burkill, which include records for Yorkshire 
and Derbyshire. 
The Lancashive and Cheshive Naturalist for February contains a 
portrait and memoir on Christopher Johnson, a bygone Lancashire botanist, 
by A. A. Dallman. 
* In The Zoologist for February Prof. C. J. Patten writes on ‘ Icterine 
Warbler on Migration on Tuscar Rock, with remarks on the status of 
this species in the British Isles,’ with a plate. 
Naturalist, 
