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JOHN GEORGE GOODCHILI). 

 1 844- 1 906. 



It is with very great regret that we record the death of 

 Mr. J. G. Goodchild, F.G.S., of H.M. (ieolo^ncal Survey of 

 Scotland. Mr. Goodchild, who was for many years editor 

 ot the ' Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland 

 Association,' and wrote many most valuable papers in those 

 transactions, certainly accomplished much in furtherance of 

 natural science. He was one of the earliest of the workers in 

 the field of glacial g-eolog^y on modern lines. His paper on the 

 ' Glacial Phenomena of the Eden Valley,' which appeared in the 

 'Quarterly Journal of the Geolog-ical Society,' has been justly 

 described as 'one of the gems of glacial literature.' He also 

 wrote ' On the New Red Series in Cumberland and Westmor- 

 land,' ' Ice-work in Edenside,' ' Notes on the Water Supply of 

 Edenside,' ' Notes on Some of the Limestones of Cumberland 

 and Westmorland,' 'Some Notes on Peat,' 'Granite Junction 

 in Mull,' ' Augeii Structure and Eruptive Rocks,' ' How to take 

 Impressions from Fossils,' etc. He was formerly a frequent 

 contributor to the scientific journals. To the ' Naturalist ' he 

 was an occasional writer, one of his best papers being ' Notes 

 on the Glacial Phenomena of Upper Ribblesdale.' In recent 

 years he has devoted the most of his time to the mineralogical 

 collections, etc., in the Royal Scottish Museum at Edinburgh, 

 and has written on ' Astronomical Models in the Edinburgh 

 Museum," ' On the Arrangement of Geological Collections,' 

 ' On the Arrangement of Mineralogical Collections,' ' Simple 

 Methods in Crystallography,' etc. In 1884 he was elected a 

 F^ellow of the Geological Society of London, and received 

 the proceeds of the Wollaston Fund in 1893. 



He joined the Geological Survey in 1867, and for many years 

 was engaged in mapping areas in the North of England, and 

 particularly in the neighbourhood of the Lake District. There- 

 after he was removed to the Survey Office in Jermyn Street, 

 London, and in 1887 was transferred to Scotland, where he was 

 placed in charge of the collections obtained by the Scottish staff, 

 and deposited in the Royal Scottish Museum, an appointment 

 for which he was specially adapted. Possessing remarkable 

 powers of receptivity, a mind extremely susceptible of new ideas, 



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