Obituary — John Edivard Lee, F.S.A., F.G.S. 527 



at Hull he took an active part in the Eoyal Institution there ; 

 frequently at the end of the clay's work, he would shut himself in 

 the Museum, and stay far into the night arranging the specimens it 

 contained. 



His health failing, he travelled abroad, first in Norway and Sweden, 

 afterwai'ds in Russia and other parts of the continent. During these 

 tours he sketched, and also mastered French and German thoroughly. 

 In 1841 he entered the Iron Works (J. J. Cordes & Co.) of 

 Newport, Monmouthshire, where he spent the best years of his life. 

 In 1846 he married Miss Gravely, of Torquaj^ and they resided 

 at the Priory, Caerleon, till 1868, when anxiety for Mrs. Lee's 

 health decided his removal to Villa Syracusa, Torquay ; but he still 

 constantly went back to Monmouthshire for many years. 



During all the years of his residence at Caerleon, and later at 

 Torquay, until failing health compelled him to abandon many of his 

 cherished pursuits in life, he worked steadily and uninterruptedly at 

 various branches of science, principally at Geology and Archgeology. 

 He was one of the founders of the Monmouthshire and Caerleon 

 Antiquarian Society, to the Proceedings of which he frequently con- 

 tributed. He also aided in the formation of the Museum at Caerleon, 

 publishing, under the title of " Isca Siliiriiin," an illustrated catalogue 

 of the Roman remains discovered at Caerleon, the ancient capital of 

 the "Silures." 



He exchanged fossils with geologists in all parts of the world, and 

 carried on a large correspondence with many foreigners, who had 

 either visited his collection at Caerleon or Torquay, or whom he had 

 met during his numerous continental travels, or others in America 

 and elsewhere with whom he had no personal acquaintance. All his 

 journeys were undertaken with a scientific object, and he was in the 

 habit of carrying small sketch-books with him when travelling, the 

 contents of which he utilized in his publications, many of his 

 sketches appearing in " The Note-Book of an Amateur Geologist," 

 published in 1881. 



His principal work was a translation and revision (assisted by the 

 author) of Dr. Keller's Lake Dwellings of Switzerland, printed in 

 1866, and a second edition (in two volumes) in 1878 ; all the plates 

 for this work, 206 in number, were drawn by Mr. Lee for the 

 English edition, and illustrate more than two thousand five hundred 

 objects, obtained from between two and three thousand sepai'ate lake- 

 dwellings." Mr. Lee's other works are, " Roman Imperial Photo- 

 graphs " and " Roman Imperial Profiles " (the latter being a series 

 of more than 160 lithographic profiles enlarged from coins), both 

 published in 1874. 



A translation of Conrad Merck's Excavations at the Kesslerloch, 

 near Thayingen, Switzerland, a cave of the Reindeer period, followed 

 in 1876 ; and an English version of Prof. Roomer's Bone-cave of 

 Ojcow in Poland in 1884. 



One of Mr. Lee's most interesting geological expeditions was 

 made to Italy in 1868, in company with one of his earliest friends, 

 Prof. John Phillips of Oxford, to study the phenomena of Vesuvius, 

 then in active eruption. 



