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fossils had been obtained, nor studied more fully tbe Continental 

 types figured from equivalent strata. 



Early in January, 1895, Mr. Hudleston, accompanied by bis wife 

 and his friend Professor J. F. Blake, F.G.S., left London for 

 Bombay, where they arrived towards the end of the month. After 

 leaving- Professor Blake duly installed as organizing Curator of 

 the Museum at Baroda, to which he had just been appointed, 

 Mr. Hudleston continued his journey towards the north-west frontier 

 of India. The geological results of this expedition are embodied 

 in the second part of his paper " Notes on Indian Geology, " read 

 before the Geologists' Association during the presidency of the late 

 General C. A. McMahon, December, 1895 (see Proc. Geol. Assoc, 

 xiv, pt. 6, February, 1896), who himself contributed an appendix 

 on some of the rock-specimens collected. After making a rush for 

 Simla, which is by no means an agreeable place in February, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Hudleston proceeded across the Punjab to the banks of 

 the Jhelum. Here they had an opportunity of ascending Mt. Tilla, 

 the eastern extremity of the Salt Range, and thence transferred 

 their base of operations to Rawal Pindi, whence Jamrood, Abbotabad, 

 Murree, and finally Srinagar itself were visited. 



Mr. Hudleston has been invited to preside over or take part in 

 the Councils and Committees of numerous scientific Societies. He 

 was elected President of the Devonshire Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, Literature, and Art, of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, and of the Malton Field Naturalists' Society ; and has for 

 some years past acted as a Vice-President of the Dorset Natural 

 History Field Club. He has been a member of the Council of the 

 Royal Geographical Society, and was President of the Geological 

 Section of the British Association at Bristol in 1898. 



Quite recently Mr. Hudleston achieved an excellent piece of 

 £eld geology by investigating the structure of Creechbarrow-in- 

 Purbeck (see Geol. Mag., 1902, pp. 241-256, and 1903, pp. 149-154, 

 197-203), which affords an object-lesson for younger hammerers 

 to take pattern by. 



The accompanying list of Mr. Hudleston's more important papers 

 will best attest the energy and ability of their author, and the pleasure 

 which he still continues to take in all the scientific questions of 

 the day. 



Of these 58 memoirs and papers, extending over a period of 32 

 years, the last appeared so recently as July of the present year 

 (see Geological Magazine, No. 481, pp. 337-382), and deals 

 with " the Tanganyika problem," and is a most valuable con- 

 tribution to, as well as a criticism of, Mr. J. E. S. Moore's 

 recently published work on this subject. Indeed, we have 

 the testimony of Professor Cornet himself upon this point. In 

 the first place Mr. Hudleston enters upon a critical examination 

 of the peculiarly marine-looking gasteropod shells which are 

 thought by Mr. Moore to be homoeomorphic with certain shells 

 from beds of the Inferior Oolite of Western Europe, and are thus 

 inferentially regarded as descendants of those forms. Mr. Hudleston 



