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no value in support of his views. As I was ignorant that he was 

 intending immediately to publish a detailed critical re-description of 

 the species which I had established, and that all his evidence would 

 be obtained from the few figured specimens which were lent for 

 another purpose, the rest of the material Was not put into his hands, 

 and the unfortunate errors to which allusion has been made have 

 thus appeared in his otherwise valuable articles on these interesting 

 fossils. 



F. R. C. Reed. 

 Cambridge. 



March 14, 1919. 



OBITUAET. 



ARTHUR EDWARD VICTOR ZEALLEY, A.R.C.S., F.G.S. 

 Born March 1, 1886. Died October 28, 1918. 



A most promising career has been cut short by the death of A. E. V. 

 Zealley from pneumonia following influenza in the epidemic which 

 visited Rhodesia in October, 1918. Zealley received his geological 

 training at the Royal College of Science, London, and afterwards was 

 appointed Demonstrator in Geology there. At this time he worked 

 upon the metamorphosed limestones of Donegal, and published a 

 short note in the Geological Magazine for 1909, but the complete 

 work is still in manuscript. 



In 1909 Zealley went out to Southern Rhodesia as Curator to the 

 Rhodesia Museum. In that capacity he saw the collections housed 

 in the first part of a building specially designed for a museum. He 

 made important contributions to the Museum Reports on the 

 minerals, on the mineral resources, and on the gold-bearing rocks of 

 Rhodesia ; and wrote articles and papers on the local minerals and 

 rocks. 



Zealley joined the Geological Survey of Southern Rhodesia in 

 1911, shortly after it was started, and remained in that service until 

 the time of his death. His work lay chiefly amongst the meta- 

 morphic rocks, and he took part in the mapping of several of the 

 goldfields. He was particularly interested in the ore-deposits, their 

 genesis, and the association of minerals in them. 



He had gained a wide knowledge of the mineral deposits of the 

 country, and his work was inspired by the belief that for their 

 efficient development a thorough and exact study of them was 

 necessary. When, after the War broke out, the systematic mapping 

 of the Geological Survey was suspended, he threw himself whole- 

 heartedly into the task of assisting prospectors with the determination 

 of minerals and with advice as to the nature of the deposits they had 

 found. He also took an active part in the work of the Rhodesia 

 Munitions and Resources Committee, which has done much to spread 

 a knowledge of the mineral wealth of the Territory. His ever-ready 

 willingness freely to give his geological knowledge was much appre- 

 ciated by prospectors and mining men, and will be greatly missed. 



H. B. M. 



