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all the people of the countryside, so that when anything rare or 

 curious was unearthed he soon had news of it. By this means and 

 by his long-continued excavations of the harrows and other pre- 

 historic burial-places, he was enabled to accumulate a store of 

 archaeological material which is of peculiar value as a strictly localized 

 record of the early races that inhabited the district. 



During the years of his middle life Mortimer regularly attended 

 the meetings of the British Association. He contributed papers on 

 the Yorkshire Chalk to the Geological Society in 1869, 1875, and 

 1876, and to the Geologists' Association in 1877 and 1890. He also 

 published several geological papers in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire 

 Geological (and Polytechnic) Society. A complete bibliography of his 

 writings is contained in an illustrated sketch of his life by Mr. T. 

 Sheppard, F.G.S., which appeared in the Naturalist for last May 

 (No. 652). 



His wife, a daughter of the Rev. T Mitchell, vicar of Sancton and 

 Holme-on-the-Wolds, died six years ago. They had a family of six 

 children, five of whom survive them. 



Mr. Mortimer was a man of impressive personality — tall, lithe, 

 active in all his movements, and until a few months before his death 

 almost untouched by age. His kindliness and his energy endeared 

 him to all his numerous friends, and he has left a lasting memory in 

 the district for which he had such a loyal affection. 



G. W. L. 



MISCELLAISTEOUS. 



University op St. Andrews. — At the recent celebration of the 

 five hundredth anniversary of the University of St. Andrews, the 

 following geologists were admitted to the honorary degree of LL D. : 

 Dr. John Home, Professor A. G. Nathorst, Dr. J. J. H. Teall, 

 Professor W. W. Watts, and Dr. A. Smith Woodward. 



Erratum. — September Number, p. 400 : Fig. 2 is printed upside 

 down, reversing the relative positions of the saddles and lobes of the 

 suture. 



The Swiney Lectures on Geology. — In connexion with the 

 British Museum (Natural History), Dr. T. J Jehu, M.A., E.R.S.E., 

 will commence a course of twelve free lectures on "The Natural 

 History of Bocks " on Saturday, November 4,1911: ( 1 ) Introductory ; 

 (2) Monday, November 6, "Eruptive Igneous Rocks"; (3) Tuesday, 

 November 7, " Intrusive Igneous Bocks" ; .(4) Saturday, November 1 1 , 

 " Composition, Texture, and Structure of Igneous Rocks"; (5) Monday, 

 November 13, "Derivative Rocks"; (6) Tuesday, November 14, 

 " Organically-derived Rocks"; (7) Saturday, November 18, " Structure 

 of Derivative Rocks " ; (8) Monday, November 20, " Metamorphism " ; 

 (9) Tuesday, November 21, " The Metamorphie Rocks "; (10) Saturday, 

 November 25, " Carbonaceous Rocks " ; (11) Monday, November 27, 

 " Chemically-formed Rocks " ; (12) Tuesday, November 28, " Deposits 

 formed on Land." At the Lecture Theatre of the Victoria and Albert 

 Museum, South Kensington. Mondays and Tuesdays at 5 p.m., and 

 Saturdays at 3 p.m. 



