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deposits, and most important of all the officials of the. Geological 
Survey of India who have to deal with the type occurrences, are all 
agreed as to the desirability of retaining the use of the term ‘laterite’ 
in much the same sense as I have defined it. The only culprits 
appear to be those who have either ignored the drift of recent 
tendencies in this matter, or who have preferred to attach more 
importance to the vulgar than to the scientific use of the term. 
In conclusion, I fail to see any good reason why both laterite and 
bauxite should not be regarded as very useful scientific terms, the 
former more particularly for petrographical, the latter for mineralogical 
purposes. » 
T. Croox. 
Screntiric Department, ImpertaL Institute, S.W. 
Grotocy oF Bopmin anp Sr. Avsrett.—In our review of the 
Geological Survey Memoir on this district (Gron. Mac., February, 
p. 85) we called attention to the omission from certain portions of the 
work of the initials of the responsible author. We are informed by 
Mr. D. A. MacAlister that the contributions made by the several 
authors to the pages of the Memoir are as follows :— 
Barrow, G.: pp. 12; 27-8, 29-31, 32, 40-4, 63-4, 73-6, 83-91, 119-20, 180-1. 
Fuett, J. S.: pp. 44-58, 56-61, 65-8, 76-9, 93-104, 117, 8. 
MacAuistEer, D. A.: pp. 54-6, 61-3, 64-5, 72-8, 91-3, 105-9, 111, 7, 131-69, 
170-6, 179, 181. 
eee W. A. E.: pp. 1-40, 44, 68-72, 80-3, 109-11, 120-30, 176-8, 179-80, 
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CHARLES EDWARD FOX-STRANGWAYS, F.G.S. 
Born Frepruary 13, 1844. Dizp Marc# 5, 1910. 
We have to deplore the death of Mr. C. Fox-Strangways at the 
age of 66. We give his name here as he wrote it, omitting the 
second initial. 
He was born at Rewe, a village situated on the River Culm about 
434 miles north-east of Exeter. There his father, the Rey. Henry 
Fox-Strangways, a grandson of the first Earl of Ilchester, was Rector.. 
Another relation, the Hon. William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways, 
had become a member of the Geological Society in 1815, and had 
communicated papers to the Transactions of the Society on the geology 
of Russia, and of the neighbourhood of St. Petersburg in particular. 
He served on the Council of the Society in 1820-1, was elected a 
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821, and eventually succeeded to the 
title as fourth Karl of Ilchester. 
C. Fox-Strangways was educated at Eton, about the same time as 
his cousin, the late Sir Redvers Buller, and afterwards proceeded to 
the University of Gottingen, where among other subjects he studied 
mineralogy, chemistry, and physics. In 1866, when war was declared 
between Austria and Prussia, he assisted Sartorius von Waltershausen, 
the professor of geology and mineralogy, in burying his precious 
collection of minerals, so as to prevent it from falling into the hands 
of the belligerents. Soon after his return to England, Strangways 
