Obituary — Clement Reid. 47 



The election of office-bearers for the ensuing year resulted as 

 follows: Chairman, Dr. C. A. Cotton, F.G.S. ; Vice-Chairman, 

 Dr. J. Henderson; Hon. Secretary, Mr. E. K. Lomas; Committee, 

 Messrs. Morgan, F.G.S., Ongley, Uttley, F.G.S., Holmes, and 

 Dr. Thomson, F.G.S. 



During the evening Dr. J. Allan Thomson read papers: (1) " On 

 the so-called 'Drift Formation' of Hawera"; (2) "The Geology of 

 the Middle Clarence Valley, between the Bluff and Herring River." 

 — New Zealand Times, September 21, 1916. 



OBITUAEY. 



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

 Born July 6, 1853. Died December 10, 1916. 



It is with the deepest regret that we have to record the death of 

 Mr. Clement Reid, late of H.M. Geological Survey, which took place 

 at his residence, One Acre, Milford-on-Sea, on Sunday, December 10. 

 He was buried at Milford on the following Wednesday. Mr. Reid 

 was so deeply versed in all matters relating to the later Tertiary and 

 more recent strata that all geologists interested in these deposits will 

 feel that their science has lost a master and they a reliable co-worker. 

 Only those who knew Mr. Reid intimately could appreciate his 

 sterling abilities and intense devotion to his scientific work, 

 characteristics in which he so much resembled his great-uncle 

 Michael Faraday. 



Mr. Clement Reid joined H.M. Geological Survey in 1874 and 

 started work, under the able guidance of H. B. Woodward, in the 

 South- West of England, but in 1876 was transferred to Norfolk, and 

 there began, under the same genial leader, the detailed study of the 

 Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits, including the "Forest Bed" and 

 "Contorted Drifts", of the Norfolk coast. The name of Clement 

 Reid has ever since been intimately connected with the study of 

 these formations; indeed, in all matters relating to the "Norfolk 

 Forest Bed" and the nearly associated strata he was regarded as the 

 chief authority. His memoir on The Geology of the Country around 

 Cromer (Explanation of Sheet 68 E.), together with the maps and 

 sections, is a model of careful work, and exemplifies the close 

 attention to minute details as well as the broad grasp of his subject 

 which has ever characterized his scientific work. 



Mr. Reid published numerous papers on geological subjects, many 

 of which are of more than ordinary interest ; but as an officer of 

 H.M. Geological Survey his chief work was the preparation of maps 

 and of explanatory memoirs, and for this purpose after leaving 

 Norfolk he was engaged in later years in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, 

 Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Dorset, Wilts, Cornwall, and the 

 London area. It is therefore in the publications of the Survey that 

 the bulk of Mr. Reid's work will be found, and these chiefly relating 

 to Tertiary and more superficial deposits. 



Whatever Mr. Reid undertook to do he did thoroughly. He was 



