432 Obituary — Alfred John Jukes-Browne. 



On September 7, 1874, A. J. Jukes-Browne was appointed as a 

 temporary assistant on the Geological Survey of Great Britain under 

 Sir Andrew Ramsay and continued on the Survey for twenty-seven 

 years, but retired on account of ill-health in 1901. In 1874 be was 

 elected a Fellow of the Geological Society, and was a recipient of 

 the Lyell Fund in 1885, when the President, Professor T. G. Bonney, 

 F.R.S., spoke of the excellent work Jukes-Browne bad done on the 

 Cretaceous formation and in Glacial Geology, and of his papers on the 

 Cambridge Greensand and his Sedgwick prize-essay on the post- 

 Tertiary deposits of Cambridgeshire. Professor Bonney also referred 

 to Jukes-Browne as one of his geological pupils, of whom, as bis old 

 college tutor, he was justly proud. 



In 1901 the Council awarded Jukes-Browne the Murchison Medal, 

 when the President, Professor J. J. H. Teall, F.R.S., spoke of his 

 numerous writings on the Upper Cretaceous rocks, associating 

 palaeontology with bis stratigraphical work, of his handbooks on 

 Physical and Historical Geology for Students and bis suggestive 

 work on The Building of the British Isles, and other valuable services 

 be bad rendered to geological science. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1909. 



Mr. William Whitaker, F.R.S., an old colleague on the Geological 

 Survey, writes: "By the death of Jukes-Browne science has lost 

 a gallant worker. The greater part of bis life was a ceaseless struggle 

 with ill-health and bodily weakness. But the alert and active mind, 

 the resolute spirit, were victorious, and the enfeebled body was not 

 allowed to stop the work that be loved so well, though often it must 

 have delayed it. To those of us especially who have bad the blessing 

 of good health it has been a marvel bow Jukes-Browne managed to 

 do so much and so well. Under such adverse circumstances most men 

 would have given way, and would have done little or nothing ; but 

 he worked until the last. Both in quality and in quantity, in the 

 field even as well as in the study, his work might put to shame many 

 a strong man. He was a worthy nephew of his uncle. Jukes." 



His wife and son died before him, but bis daughter survives 

 her father. 



Between 1871 and 1914 the Geological Magazine credits A. J. Jukes- 

 Browne with ninety-eight papers of his own, and nine joint papers — with 

 C. V. Bellamy on Cyprus ; with Wm. Hill on the Gault and Chalk Marl; with 

 Professor J. B. Harrison (2) on the Geology of Barbados ; with C. J. A. Meyer on 

 the Greensand and Chloritic Marl; with J. Milne on the Cretaceous of Aberdeen- 

 shire ; with J. Scanes on the Upper Greensand of Mere and Maiden Bradley ; 

 with W. Whitaker on the Geology of the Wash ; and with K. BuUen Newton, 

 F.G.S., on the Devonian of Torquay. 



His separate publications include — 



StudenVs Handbook of Physical Geology. Two editions. 



Handbook of Historical Geology. 1886. 



Handbook of Stratigraphical Geology. 2nd edition, published in 1912. 



Handbook, The Building of the British Isles. 3rd edition, 1911. 



The Cretaceous Rocks of Britain, in 2 vols. Mem. Geol. Survey. 



And many other small memoirs for the Geological Survey, and contributions 

 to the Geological Society, Geologists' Association, and the Malacological 

 Society. There is an unpublished MS. of Jukes-Browne's in the Editor's 

 hands dated July 12, 1914, on a Boring at Marston, near Devizes. 



