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not only enriclied the Museums of Europe and the United States, but 

 have formed the groundwork of the investigations into the zones and 

 fossils of the Gault made by myself, and fellow- workers — the Eev. 

 Professor Wiltshire before my own endeavours, and those of Mr. F. 

 G. H. Price, F.G.S., and Mr. Starkie Gardner, F.G.S., since. Mr. 

 F. G. H. Price, of Messrs. Child's Bank, Temple Bar, W.C, has 

 kindly undertaken to receive subscriptions for the " Griffiths Fund." 

 H.M. Geological Stjkvey. C. E. De Eance, F.G.S. 



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CALEB EVANS, F.G.S., MEMB. GEOL. ASSOC. 



Born July, 1831 ; Died Sept. 16, 1886. 



The subject of our present Memoir was a resident of Harapstead. 

 He was educated at University College School, and so early as in 

 1846 he entered a solicitor's office, and was appointed Clerk in the 

 Chancery Pay-Office in 1852, where he served for 30 years, but 

 retired on account of ill-health in 1882. 



He commenced to study geology about the year 18S5, and attended 

 lectures by Prof. Owen and Dr. Melville. He made no actual collec- 

 tion of specimens until 1858, but from that time until his health gave 

 way, he took advantage of his annual official vacations to visit the 

 various localities of geological interest, especially those of the 

 South-East of England. In 1859 he became a member of the 

 Geologists' Association, and in 1867 he was elected a Fellow 

 of the Geological Society of London. The beds to which he chiefly 

 directed his attention were those of the English Tertiaries and the 

 Chalk, and in addition to a large collection from the Isle of Wight 

 and Hampshire beds, he obtained numerous London Clay fossils by 

 watching the excavations in various parts of the Metropolis, and more 

 especially from the main-drainage works in the South of London, 

 which yielded numerous fossils of the Woolwich and Reading Series, 

 from strata then exposed for the first time, and which have never been 

 accessible since in this particular area. 



Mr. Evans was author of eleven papers, eight of which appeared 

 in the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, the most important 

 being that " On the Geology of the Neighbourhood of Portsmouth and 

 Ryde." But the paper by which he will be best known was that 

 read before the Geologists' Association in January, 1870, entitled, 

 " On some Sections of Chalk between Croydon and Oxtead," which 

 was separately published. It was the first attempt made in this 

 country to subdivide the Chalk into zones according to their fossil 

 contents, and to correlate these zones with those in other parts of 

 England and on the Continent. 



Mr. Evans constructed several geological relief-maps or models, 

 based on his own observations ; one of the neighbourhood of Hamp- 

 stead and Highgate; one of the Thames Valley in the neighbourhood 

 of London ; one of Hastings, one of Sidmouth, and one of England 



