Obitwary—Professor John Wesley Judd. 191 
deafness which is often associated with vertigo, and partly because 
that of one of his two children required constant watchfulness. His 
own physical trouble, which happily did not materially increase, was 
just sufficient to cause his gradual disappearance from scientific 
gatherings in London. Still, he was my guest in Cambridge at the 
Darwin Celebration in 1909, and it. was not till the outbreak of the 
present War that any serious failure became marked. Of that War 
he may be regarded as an indirect victim. Its horrors at the present 
and its ominous promises for the future were a bitter disappointment 
to a man of his sympathetic nature. The thought of them depressed 
his spirit by day and haunted his dreams by night. Rather more 
than a year ago he began to suffer much from neuritic pains, which 
often cramped his limbs and impeded his movements. A visit to 
Walmer during last summer sent him back to Kew in a more hopeful 
condition, but no long time afterwards he began steadily to lose 
strength, till at last he literally fell asleep. 
I can heartily endorse every word that a writer in this Magazine 
has already said in Judd’s praise as a geologist and a friend, alike to 
those of his own standing and to his pupils; for I have known him 
intimately for some forty years. We were Joint Secretaries to the 
Geological Society from 1878 to 1884, and he continued his services 
while I was President. We have met on many committees and 
as fellow-examiners, and in matters connected with the Funafuti 
boring, where he did a heavy piece of work in connexion with the 
examination and transport of the cores. We did not always quite 
agree on geological questions and matters of policy, but that never 
affected the constancy of his friendship. More than once he has gone 
out of his way to do me valuable service, and I have never met with 
a man who was less of a self-advertiser and self-seeker, or was more 
considerate of others. He was inflexible in taking the course to 
which, in his opinion, duty pointed; but his quiet, almost imperturbable, 
manner was united with a truly warm heart. 
Though during the last ten years new investigations had become 
practically impossible, he still made valuable contributions to 
geological literature. The most important of these, for it is needless 
to enumerate every ‘‘ chip from his workshop”, were the following: 
“Henry Clifton Sorby and the Birth of Microscopic Petrology ” 
(this Magazine, 1908, p. 193); ‘‘ Darwin and Geology,” an essay in 
Darwin and Modern Science (1909); The Coming of Evolution, 
published in the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature 
(1910); Zhe Students’ Lyell, his second, revised and enlarged edition 
of Lyell’s Students’ Elements of Geology (1911); and an obituary of 
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, contributed to Professor Watts’ Presidential 
Address to the Geological Society in February, 1912. Judd’s last 
communication to that Society was on March 25, 1914, when he gave 
a succinct account of the Island of Rockall as a preface to a paper on 
its unusual rock by Dr. H. 8S. Washington. All these maintained 
a high level, and the Coming of Evolution is a most attractive book, 
both from the writer’s intimacy with Darwin and the ‘ dauntless 
three”? who stood beside him in that conflict and from its remarkable 
literary grace. 
