Correspondence — G. W. Grahham. 431 



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THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S ABSTRACTS. 



SiK, — I have received a letter from the Society stating that it is 

 unusujil for Fellows resident abroad to receive the "Abstracts of 

 Proceedings". These publications, with notices of the papers and 

 reports of the discussions, are probably taken as a matter of course by 

 most Fellows in the British Isles, while they may be scarcely known 

 to those elected while in residence abroad. They provide information 

 months earlier, and often contain matter that is not given at all in the 

 "Quarterly Journal". It is easy to give a number of instances 

 where papers have been read and discussed, and the larger publication, 

 when it at last arrives, has only a bare statement of the title. Apart 

 from the value of the account of what the author said, the reports of 

 the discussions are often of the greatest interest to those unable to be 

 present at the meetings. The abstracts promote the objects of the 

 Society by stimulating interest in its larger publications, the contents 

 of which are already familiar in outline on arrival. They are not 

 then put aside to await a more favourable opportunity of cutting the 

 pages, for the recipient knows more or less what is likely to interest him. 



If any members are to have the " Abstracts", those resident abroad 

 have the strongest claim. They are unable to attend the meetings 

 and the library is out of reach. The cost of postage on the small 

 publication is the same to most parts of the world and cannot be 

 urged as a reason against general distribution. Instead of ^ these 

 things being recognized, and the Society doing its utmost to give its 

 exiles a more living interest in its work, it slights them by not sending 

 full measure of its publications. q -^ Grabham 



Khartoum, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 

 July 29, 1914. 



O B ITXJ-A-IR-Sr. 



ALFRED JOHN JUKES-BROWNE, B.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. 

 Born April 16, 1851. Died August 14, 1914. 



We regret to record the death of Alfred J. Jukes-Browne, which 

 took place, after a brief illness, on Friday, August 14, 1914, at his 

 residence, "Westleigh," Ash Hill Road, Torquay. 



Alfred J. Browne was the son of Mr. A. H. Browne, formerly 

 of St. Paul's Crescent, Camden Town. His mother was a sister of 

 Professor J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S. He took the name of his uncle 

 on attaining his 21st birthday and afterwards was known as Alfred 

 Jukes-Browne. 



He was educated at Cholmondeley School, Highgate, and thence 

 entered St. John's College, Cambridge, where he passed the Natural 

 Science Tripos in 1874, and took his B.A. degree. He was an ardent 

 student of Natural History, and the writer recalls the pleasure with 

 which young Browne showed him his collection of recent shells all 

 carefully named and arranged by himself. He was always a rather 

 delicate and ailing lad, and in later life never seemed to overcome this 

 ■weakness of constitution. But his meotal energy was remarkable. 



