Il8 IN MEMORIAM. 



A similar tribute to his careful pains and power of description 

 must be paid by the members of the Geological Section of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. Without his pen, the enjoyment of 

 the excursion would have been confined to the twenty or thirty who 

 participated in it, and the remembrance of the details would gradually 

 have faded away ; but his interesting narratives afforded pleasant 

 reading to others as well, and still remain a storehouse of knowledge 

 to refresh the memory of those who were his companions in the field. 



But Mr. Adamson's labours were not confined to these narrow 

 limits. His zeal knew no bounds. He threw himself heart and soul 

 into the geological work of the British Association, and it was 

 entirely owing to his energy and perseverance that such admirable 

 reports were collected and presented to the Boulder Committee of 

 the British Association, three years in succession, as to draw forth the 

 remark from Dr. Crosskey, that ' the work of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union in this direction was excellent and exhaustive, 

 and an example to other counties.' He took up also warmly the 

 idea of Geological Photography for registering and preserving 

 a permanent record of rock-sections from time to time exposed, and 

 of the changes in the aspect of nature, continually being brought 

 about by marine or sub-aerial denudation, and it was through his 

 instrumentality that a Committee of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union was recently appointed to carry on this work in connection 

 with one established by the British Association at Newcastle, in 1889. 



In addition to the numerous papers which he contributed to the 

 ' Naturalist,' ' Research,' and other periodicals, as also to the 

 Transactions of the Leeds Geological Association, the Proceedings 

 of the Yorkshire Geological Society, and Quarterly Journal of the 

 London Geological Society, of which Society he was a Fellow, 

 Mr. Adamson did important work in collecting, arranging, and 

 making abstracts of papers and records, published from year to year, 

 with respect to the natural history and physical features of the north 

 of England, the result being contributed by him to the ' Naturalist,' 

 under the head of ' Bibliography, Geology and Palneontology,' and 

 calling forth special commendation from Professor Lebour at the 

 Newcastle meeting above mentioned. These abstracts alone, 

 published in the 'Naturalist' for December 1885, November and 

 December 1886, and February and March 1889, and in the present 

 number, show what important contributions Mr. Adamson himself 

 has made to the study of Yorkshire Geology. 



It only remains to add that he was looking forward with deep 

 interest to the forthcoming meeting of the British Association at 

 Leeds, where, amid the many celebrities gathered together, he would 



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