OUtiiary—Rcv. W. S. Symonds, M.A., F.G.S. 575 



Mr. Symonds married, in 1840, Hyacinth, daughter of Samuel 

 Kent, Esq., of Upton-on-Severn, and had issue three sons and one 

 daughter; the latter only now survives him, and is married to Sir 

 J. D. Hooker, K.C.S.I., F.R.S. 



From an early date Mr. Symonds became the friend and associate 

 of Sir William Yernon Guise, Bart., of Elmore Court, near Gloucester, 

 and it is significant that the two attached friends died within a few- 

 days of one another, viz. 15th and 24th Sept. (see Geol. Mag. 

 Nov. 1887, p. 528). 



Mr. Symonds assisted in the foundation of the WoolhopeNaturalists* 

 Field Club, and was elected its President in 1854. He was also 

 President of the Malvern Naturalists' Field Club from 1853 and for 

 many years subsequently. 



In 1857 he visited Dublin, in order to attend the Meeting of the 

 British Association, and availed himself of the opportunity to make 

 a geological tour through Ireland (see Geologist, 1858, pp. 292-296 

 and 330-335). In this year he also published a work entitled 

 •' Stones of the Valley." 



In 1858 we find him busy in the field exploring the bone-bed of 

 the Upper Ludlow rocks and their characteristic fossils (Geologist, 

 1858, p. 15). Mr. Symonds examined in 1859 the reptiliferous 

 sandstone near Elgin (see Edinburgh New Phil. Journ. 1860, vol. 

 xii. p. 95), and in the year following he was watching the results of 

 the geological sections exposed in the Malvern and Ledbury Tunnels 

 with Mr. A. Lambert (Geologist, 1861, p. 148). In 1863 he made a 

 geological ramble through Wales, an account of which he communi- 

 cated to the Worcester Nat. Hist. Soc. Trans. 1864. A new edition 

 of his book entitled '■ Old Bones, or Notes for young Naturalists," 

 was issued in 1864, the first edition having appeared in 1859. 



In the summer of 1866, accompanied by his friend Sir W. V. 

 Guise, Bart., Mr. Symonds visited Belgium, and under the guidance 

 of Prof. Dupont, explored the Bone-Caverns of the Valley of the 

 Lesse, and gave an interesting description of the same to the Wool- 

 hope Naturalists' Field Club (Geol. Mag. 1866, pp. 564-570). 



In 1871 Mr. Symonds published, in Dr. H. Woodward's Mono- 

 graph on the Merostomata, some interesting Notes on Silurian 

 localities in the West of England where these fossil Crustacea occur 

 (see Pal. Soc. Mon. Brit. Foss. Crustacea, 1871, part iii. pp. 92-104). 

 In the same year Mr. Symonds explored the Hyeena-Den (known as 

 King Arthur's Cave) on the Great Doward, Whitchurch, Boss (see 

 Geol. Mag. Vol. VllL p. 433). 



In the year following (1872) he brought out his "Record of the 

 Eocks," an excellent and readable handbook for students of the 

 Geology of the West of England. 



The autumns of 1874, 5, and 6, were spent in company with Sir 

 Wm. Guise, Mr. Lucy, and others, in exploring the volcanoes and 

 tracing the ancient glaciers of Auvergne and those of the Haute 

 Loire and the Ai'deche (see the Pop. Sci. Rev. vol. xv, 1876, and 

 N. Ser. vol. i. pp. 1, 250, 329, 1877). 



In 1880 Mr. Symonds published a second edition of his book 



