Obituary— C. E. Leeds. 287 



his fine monograph foi' the U.S. Geological Survey on the Physiograpliy 

 and Glacial Geology of the Yakutat Bay Region, Alaska, published in 

 1909. He also wrote several textbooks of physical geography, geology, 

 and economic geology, which have had a wide circulation. 



His arduous field-work in Alaska was resumed last year, and he 

 was engaged in writing up the results and carrying out a series of 

 experiments on the physical properties of ice when death cut short his 

 labours. 



Among other honours of recognition outside his own countrj^. 

 Professor Tarr was elected a Foreign Correspondent of the Geological 

 Society of London in 1909. 



G. W. L. 



CHARLES EDWARD LEEDS, M.A., 



ExETEE College, Oxford. 

 Born August 11, 1845. Died March 27, 1912. 



We regret to record the death at Auckland, N.Z., of Mr. Charles 

 Edward Leeds, M.A., formerly a solicitor in York, who made the early 

 part of the remarkable collection of fossil reptiles from the Oxford Clay 

 of Peterborough which now occupies so large a portion of a gallery in 

 the British Museum (Natural History). Mr. Leeds attended the lectures 

 of the late Professor John Phillips, M.A., E.B.S., and some of his 

 earliest discoveries were described in the Professor's Geology of Oxford 

 and the Valley of the Thames, 8vo, 1871, p. 318. Mr. C. E. Leeds left 

 England in 1887 to spend the remainder of his life in New Zealand, and 

 during the past twenty-five years the collection has been remarkably 

 extended by his brother, Mr. Alfred N, Leeds, E.G.S., who still resides 

 at his birthplace, Eyebury, Peterborough. — Nature, April 4, 1912'. 



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The Human Skeleton discovered near Ipswich. — At the meeting 

 of the Boyal Antbropological Institute (50 Great Russell Street) on 

 April 23, 1912, Professor Arthur Keith, M.D., E.R.C.S., and 

 Mr. J. Keid Moir gave an account of the human skeleton found 

 eighteen months ago in a brickfield near Ipswich.^ Mr. Moir stated 

 that the bones were earlier than any human remains so far discovered 

 in England, and represented pre-Boulder-clay man. The theory of 

 burial ^ he asserted was not possible, because the line which separated 

 the overlying deposit of Boulder-clay and the underlying stratum of 

 Glacial sand, in which the skeleton was found, was unbroken. The 

 man was lying there before the clay was deposited. The flints found 

 near were of ^r^-Palaeolithic form.^ Professor Keith said the skeleton 



■^ See paper by Mr. George Slater, F.G.S., " Hmuan Skeleton in Glacial 

 Deposits at Ipswich," Geol. Mag., April, 1912, p. 164; also letter by- 

 Mr. J. Eeid Moir, op. cit., May, 1912, p. 239. 



- See letter by Professor T. McKenny Hughes, M.A., F.E.S., Geol. Mag., 

 April, 1912, p. 187. 



° See "Discovery of Flint Implements beneath the Eed Crag in Suffolk", 

 described by Sir E. Eay Lankester, F.E.S., Geol. Mag., 1911, p. 576. 



