384 Obituary — Arthur Champernowne, F.G.S. 



Eifel) afforded Mr. Champernowne the utmost gratification, as con- 

 firming the views which he had arrived at, together with Mr. John 

 Edward Lee, on the Upper Devonian Goniatite Limestone in Devon- 

 shire (see Geol. Mag. 1880, PI, Y. p. 14:5) and other kindred 

 subjects. 



Mr. Champernowne was at the time of his death a Member of the 

 Councils of the Geological and of the Paleeontographical Societies, in 

 both of which he took the warmest interest. He was a frequent 

 contributor to the Quarterly Journal of the former Society as well 

 as to the Geological Magazine. 



Mr. Hoi'ace B. Woodward frequently refers to Mr. Champernowne, 

 and. acknowledges his great indebtedness to him for revising the 

 Devonian chapters of his " Geology of England and Wales " (2nd 

 edition just published). 



The Director- General of the Geological Survey, Prof. Geikie, told 

 the writer, " When I saw Mr. Arthur Champernowne's detailed 

 geological colouring on the Ordnance Maps of his own area, I was 

 delighted with the beauty and clearness of the work, and after going 

 over the ground with him, I was equally convinced of its careful 

 accuracy. 



" When I proposed to him that he should allow me to incorporate 

 his work on the Survey Sheets, he was greatly pleased, but so 

 modest and diffident was he, that after spending years on this area, 

 he expressed his anxiety to go over it all again before allowing me 

 to accept it as quite complete." 



It was after attending the Council Meeting of the Geological 

 Society on May 11th, that he hurried down to Dartington intent on 

 setting to work at once upon a revision of his maps, and having 

 gone abroad in unfavourable weather, and suffering from a severe 

 cold, he caught a chill which developed into inflammation of the 

 lungs, under which he gradually sunk. 



Mr. Champernowne was connected with every work of benevolence 

 and public usefulness in his own district. As a Magistrate he was 

 most conscientious in the discharge of his duties ; as a Landlord he 

 was most generous, and lived upon the best terms with all his 

 tenantry, his constant aim being to promote their welfare. His 

 death was felt as a common sorrow, and his funeral was attended by 

 representatives of all ranks of society each of whom seemed to feel 

 that in the deceased he had lost a personal friend. 



Mr. Champernowne leaves a widow and ten children, the eldest,, 

 a boy of only fifteen years, to deplore his early loss. 

 Like shadowy watcliers by some misty shore, 



We stretch our arms towards the silent main. 

 And sigh for those we ne'er shall look on more, 

 "Whose hand-clasp we may never feel again. 



There is no fear that the name of Arthur Champernowne will 

 be soon forgotten, either in his home-circle, or in that wider 

 scientific circle of friends, to be associated with whom as a fellow- 

 worker he always esteemed to be his greatest happiness. — H.W. 



