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without which local money probably would not have been forth- 

 coming, I may mention that on a visit to the section last August, with 

 Professor Garwood (whose excellent conjoint paper with Miss Good- 

 year, read at the Geological Society on June 6, and published in 

 abstract in the Proceedings on June 13, 1917, has been overlooked 

 by Mr. Cantrill in his account of work on the district), we learnt 

 from an old quarry man, whose memory reached back many years, 

 that it had been the custom in slack times to cart coal from the Clee 

 Hills for lime-burning. In order to preserve the coal it was necessary 

 to bury it, often in considerable quantities. Belies of these hoards 

 are occasionally met with, and, as their history has been generally 

 forgotten, it is very likely that these chance finds gave rise to the 

 idea that coal-bearing beds exist in the locality. 



~W. W. Watts. 

 Hillside, Langley Pake, 

 Sutton, Surrey. 



November 12, 1917. 



OBITUARY. 



PROFESSOR EDWARD HULL, F.R.S. 



(WITH A POETEAIT, PLATE XXXV.) 



Born May 21, 1829. Died October 18, 1917. 



By the death of Edward Hull, in the 89th year of his age, another 

 of the links has been broken which connect the geologists of 

 to-day with those of the earlier half of last century. He was born 

 in Antrim, and came of a stock that had been settled in Ireland 

 for at least four generations. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, 

 he took his degree in Arts there. It was there, also, that he was 

 inspired with a strong bent towards geology by the prelections of 

 Professor Thomas Oldham. That eminent man gave him a letter 

 of recommendation to Sir Henry De la Beche, Director-General of 

 the Geological Survey, who without loss of time found a place for 

 him in 1850 on his staff. From the time when Hull began field-work 

 by running sections in North Wales under J. B. Jukes, he continued 

 for seventeen years to be employed in England, first mapping tracts 

 in Gloucestershire and the upper parts of the Thames Valley, and 

 then in the coal-fields of Cheshire and Lancashire. During the 

 winter months, when the members of the staff, quitting the field, 

 repaired to London for indoor work in the office, Hull gained the 

 good-will of his colleagues by his imperturbable good-nature, which, 

 in sport, they would sometimes tax to its utmost limit. But he 

 seemed never to bear any of them a grudge, taking it all as part of 

 the routine of Survey life. They came to recognize that beneath his 

 foibles of manner there lay a kindly heart, ever ready to respond to 

 kindness. 



In 1867, on the separation of the Geological Survey of Scotland as 

 a special branch, Hull's good service was rewarded by his being 



