144 Obituary — H. 0. Drake — C. R. Van Hise. 



observer. He will be greatly assisted to a decision when the 

 original describers have given the detailed evidence for eadh state- 

 ment made. Anticipating the scrutiny of future workers, I have 

 always enumerated the material studied and have supported each 

 statement in turn by reference to precise specimens or even to a 

 particular area on a specimen. The present case forms no exception, 

 so any competent observer in Calcutta can soon check my account of 

 the facts by using the same methods of examination. 



F. A. Bather. 



OBITUAEY. 



HENRY CHARLES DRAKE, F.G.S. 

 Boen 1864. Died January, 1919. 



We regret to record the death of H. C. Drake, F.G.S., of 10 Oak 

 Boad, Scarborough, at the age of 55, after a seizure. He was 

 a keen palaeontologist, a member of the Palseontographical Society, 

 and made a large collection of vertebrate remains from the secondary 

 rocks. At different periods he lived at Leicester, Hull, and 

 Scarborough, and the museums at each of those places have been 

 enriched by his collections, though possibly that at Hull is the most 

 extensive, and includes a fine series of Saurian and other remains 

 from the Oxford Clay. He also sent specimens to the British 

 Museum (Nat. Hist.) at South Kensington. He wrote a number of 

 papers in the Naturalist and in the publications of the Hull Scientific 

 and Field Naturalists' Club, the Leicester Literary and Philosophical 

 Society, and the Scarborough Philosophical Society. 



T. S. 



CHARLES RICHARD VAN HISE. 

 Born 1857. Died 1918. 



Charles Richard Van HrsE was born at Fulton, "Wisconsin, and 

 educated at the University of Wisconsin, of which he afterwards 

 became president. The greater part of his life was devoted to 

 teaching and research, and his geological work was chiefly connected 

 with the development of the iron-bearing region of Lake Superior. 

 His researches in this direction led to the publication of an important 

 memoir entitled Principles of North American Pre- Cambrian Geology, 

 but his name is perhaps most widely known as the author of 

 a monumental work on Metamorphism, in which the subject is dealt 

 with from many points of view, one of the most important underlying 

 idea3 being the conception of successive zones of the earth's crust 

 characterized by different grades of metamorphism, both constructive 

 and destructive, each accompanied by its characteristic type of rock- 

 deformation. Van Hise also investigated the geological relations of 

 the well-known and destructive landslides of the Panama Canal, 

 while his later years were much occupied by administrative work and 

 by special duties connected with the War, including a visit to this 

 country and to France, whence lie had only recently returned at the 

 time of his death, following an operation. 



P. H. P. 



