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ir. — Memorial to Henry Alleyne Nicholson, M.D., D.Sc, F.K.S. 



(PLATE XXI.) 



rpHE recently erected Memorial to the late Professor Henry Alleyne 

 L Nicholson, F.R.S., of Aberdeen, raised by subscription- among 

 his friends, deserves a record, in the pages of this journal, to which 

 he was for many years a frequent contributor (see Obituary of 

 Nicholson, Geol. Mag., 1899, pp. 138-1 -ii, with a portrait, Plate IV). 



Professor Charles Lapworth, LL.D., F.R.S., of the University 

 of Birmingham; Mr. John E. Marr, M.A., F.RS., St. John's 

 College, Cambridge ; Dr.. Heni-y .Woodward, F.R.S., late of the 

 British Museum (Nat. Hist.) ; and Professor J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., 

 who succeeded Nicholson as Eegius Professor of Natural History 

 in the University of Aberdeen, with very many others, decided to 

 commemorate Nicholson's lifework by some simple yet permanent 

 record ; and after consultation with the University authorities it 

 was decided, that the memorial should take the form of a Tablet 

 similar to that erected in, Aberdeen to the memory of Macgillivray. 



The preparation of a design was entrusted to Miss Alice B. 

 Woodward, and the execution to the well-known artists in metal, 

 Messrs. Omar Ramsden & Alwyn C. E. Carr, of Albert Studios, 

 Albert Bridge Road, London, S.W. 



The Nicholson Memorial Tablet (which measures 3 feet 8 inches 

 by 2 feet 11 inches) is executed in hand-beaten and repousse brass, 

 mounted u^Don a stout framing of oak, and is a good example of the 

 ■effort now being made to improve the artistic quality of such work, 

 and render it more worthy of its object than the ordinary hurried 

 modern machine-produced metal-work. 



The principal motif of the design is a boldly conceived and 

 modelled portrait medallion of Nicholson in ' John Knox ' cap 

 and gown, with an inscription setting forth his name and degrees, 

 worked into the design after the manner of the delightful medals 

 produced during the time of the Early Italian Renaissance, a treat- 

 ment of the portrait-head which has never been surpassed. Beneath 

 this is a square mass of lettering giving an epitome in ten lines of 

 his career, with dates. The following is the full inscription :^ 



"HENRY ALLEYNE NICHOLSON, M.D., D.Sc, F.R.S. 



BORN AT PENRITH SEPT. 1844. 



DIED AT ABERDEEN JAN. 1899. 



PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY : 



TORONTO, 1871, DURHAM, 1874. 



ST. ANDREWS, 1875. ABERDEEN, 1882-99. 



SWINEY LECTURER 1877-96. 



A SKILLED GEOLOGIST ; 



AN UNTIRING INVESTIGATOR : 



EMINENT AS A TEACHER, 



BELOVED AS A FRIEND." 



