26 In Memoriam : Clement Reid, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



It was only after some years that the present writer pre- 

 vailed upon Charles Crossland to allow an account of his 

 work to appear in the series of ' Prominent Yorkshire Work- 

 er ,' which was published in The Nahiralic4. Crossland felt 

 that the time had not yet come for him to be included among 

 the ' prominent ' workers ; and then only was sanction given 

 after agreeing to submit the proofs to him, lest he should be 

 receiving credit for work which was not his. To that biography,, 

 which appeared in The Naturalist for October, 1910, we would 

 refer our readers for an account of bis work up to that time ; 

 and the pages of this journal have gladly recorded the work 

 he has done since. The photograph then given was one of the 

 best he ever had taken. 



Crossland was painstaking and methodical to a fault. 

 The care with which he prepared his additions to the Fungus 

 Flora, from time to time, is an example difficult to follow. 

 He certainly lived a life that was worth while, whim is probably 

 the one thing he would have wished to have had said about 

 him, had it been possible to have asked him. We are proud 

 and honoured that he lived in our county. Yorkshire nat- 

 uralists will have difficulty in filling his place ; his friends 

 in Halifax can never do so. Our loss is great, but even that 

 is exceeded by the loss sustained by Mrs. Crossland and the 

 family, to whom we tender every sympathv. — T.S 



CLEMENT REID, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



We regret to record the death of Clement Reid, who for many 

 years served on H.M. Geological Survey, and who is known to 

 Yorkshiremen by his admirable Memoir on ' The Geology of 

 Holderness,' published by the Survey in 1885. That memoir 

 laid the foundations of our knowledge of the glacial features 

 of the area dealt with, and while his suggested ' Interglacial ' 

 age of the Holderness gravels is not now generally accepted, 

 his volume contains a valuable record of details of the beds 

 which were very favourably exposed during his survey. He 

 wrote a similarly useful volume dealing with the Cromer 

 district, and others bearing upon Newquay, Land's End, etc. 

 He was specially interested in the fossil plant seeds found in 

 the more recent geological beds, and probably knew them more 

 thoroughly than did any of his compeers. Much of his time in 

 recent years has been spent in their examination, and, together 

 with the help of Mrs. Reid, he has written several papers and 

 books bearing on the subject. Among these are ' The Origin 

 of the British Flora ' (1899), ' The Pre-glacial Flora of Britain ' 

 (1907), and numerous reports on the botany of Roman Britain. 

 In 1890 he wrote a valuable memoir on the ' Pliocene Deposits 

 of Britain.' He was of a retiring disposition, and always wrote 



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