Obituary — Mr. Thomas James Slatter — Mr. James Carter. 479 

 THOMAS JAMES SLATTER, F.G.S. 



BoEN 1834. Died August 1st, 1895. 

 Thobias James Slatter, F.G.S. , whose decease we have now to 

 report, died at his house, The Drift, Evesham, on the 1st of August. 

 He was a geologist whose knowledge of the locality in which he 

 lived and worked was most intimate and reliable. He was born in 

 Gloucester in 1834, but his family was for many years located at 

 Stratton, near Cirencester. He was the cousin and intimate friend 

 of John Jones, of Gloucester, whose contributions to pages of the 

 earlier numbers of this Magazine, and to the Proceedings of the 

 Cotteswold Naturalists Club, wei'e well known. Mr. Slatter com- 

 menced his business life as quite a young man in the Gloucester- 

 shire Bank, and then took up his abode in Evesham. He became 

 successively manager of the Moreton- in -Marsh, Eedditch, and 

 Evesham branches of the Bank, but retired into private life a few 

 years since, and, having built a new house on Green Hill, near the 

 latter town, removed into it his extensive and most interesting 

 collection of fossils. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological 

 Society of London in 1879, but, to the regret of those who knew 

 how careful he was as an observer, he was never the author of 

 any work on geology, nor even of any contribution to a periodical 

 on the geology of the district he knew so well. His death, by 

 paralysis, took place in the house which he had so lately erected, 

 E. F. T. 



JAMES CARTER, F.R.C.S., F.G.S. 

 Born October 3rd, 1813. Died Auoust 31st, 1895. 



We regret to record the death of our old and valued friend, and 

 fellow-worker in fossil Crustacea, Mr. James Carter, F.R.C.S., F.G.S., 

 of Cambridge, in his eighty-second year. During the greater part 

 of his life Mr. Carter piactised as a surgeon in Cambridge, where 

 his house, in Petty Cury, was for many years the resort of the 

 leading geologists and men of science in the University, who 

 never failed to find in Mr. and Mrs. Carter genial, cultivated, and 

 hospitable hosts. 



He was especially interested in palaeontology, and devoted much 

 of his time to this and other scientific subjects. He contributed 

 papers to the Geological Magazine and the Quarterly Journal 

 of the Geological Society, the chief being " On a New Species of 

 Ichthyosaurus from the Chalk" (1846), "On Orithopsis Bonneyi" 

 (1872), " On a Skull of Bos primigenius perforated by a Stone Celt " 

 (1874), "On the Decapod Crustaceans of the Oxford Clay" (1886), 

 and "On Fossil Isopods, with a Description of a New Species" (1889). 



Mr. Carter was recognized as an authority on the fossil Decapod 

 Crustacea; for some time he has been engaged in collecting materials 

 for a monograph on that group, and has left his manuscript in 

 an advanced state. He retained his interest in his pursuits almost 

 till the last, and was engaged in his scientific work to within 

 a few weeks of his death. He served on the Councils of the 



