Obituary — Alfred Vaughan Jenningf^, F.L.8., F.G.S. 143 



before the Anthropological Section of the British Association and 

 several before various Geological and Literary Societies. 



He wrote some articles and reviews for the Athenceum and other 

 Journals. His enthusiasm kindled interest in his researches among 

 all he met, friends or workmen alike. When the complainJt from 

 which he suffered was found to be consumption, he was ordered to 

 try open-air treatment, and he would go nowhere else than to the 

 scene of his researches. He was buried near Old Swanscombe Church 

 on December 10th, and the workmen of the village feel they have 

 lost a friend. 



ALFRED VAUGHAN JENNINGS, 



Assoc. K. S. Mines, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Born April 17, 1864. Died January 11, 1903. 



Alfred Vaughan Jennings was born at Hampstead, and educated 

 at St. Paul's School. He matriculated at London University 1877, 

 and entered as a student at the Royal School of Mines under 

 Professor Huxley, etc., where he was bracketed first in Advanced 

 Zoology with Martin F. Woodward in 1885, and received the 

 Edward Forbes Medal and prize of books for Biology in that year. 

 He was for three years Demonstrator in Geology with Professor Judd, 

 F.R.S., undertaking at the same time to instruct privately, in his 

 own laboratory in Chancery Lane, a class of students in Biology, 

 preparing for the B.Sc. London University Examination. He also 

 taught occasional classes in Botany at the Birkbeck Institution. 



It was the passionate earnestness with which he taught and 

 inspired these young men which first betrayed his abnormally 

 nervous temperament and weak heart. The work of teaching, for 

 which he inherited a genius, had in consequence to be given up. 

 Six months were then spent beneficially in a voyage and visit to 

 New Zealand. On his return in 1890 he undertook the arrangement 

 of the new Museum about to be opened at Eton College ; and after 

 the death of Dr. P. Herbert Carpenter he was ofi"ered by Dr. Warre, 

 Head Master of Eton College, one of Dr. Carpenter's classes, in 

 addition to the permanent care of the Museum. This he was 

 compelled to decline, as the doctors still forbad his teaching, and 

 residence at Eton had already proved mischievous to his health. 



In 1892 he took charge of the Museum then opened at Whitechapel. 

 In 1895 he removed to Dublin, where for three or four years he 

 assisted Professors Cole and Johnson with the geological and 

 botanical classes at the Royal College of Science. But teaching 

 had again to be abandoned. He subsequently went to Davos Platz, 

 and later to Bad Nauheim, from which places he sent papers to the 

 Geological Society and to this Magazine, viz. : — 



Jennings, A. V. — "On the Courses of the Landwasser and the Landquart " : 

 Geol. Mag., 1899, pp. 259-270, with three illustrations. 



"The Geology of the Davos District" : Proc. Geol. Soc, May 10, 1899 ; 



Geol. Mag., 1899, pp. 326-327 ; Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1899, 

 vol. Iv, pp. 381-412, pis. xxvi and xxvii, map, and section. 



"The Geology of Bad Nauheim and its Thermal Salt- Springs " : Geol. 



Mag., 1900, pp. 349-366, with six illustrations. 



