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old friend Dr. Thomas Davidson, F.R.S. On the death of the 

 latter in 1885 he was elected Chairman of the Committee, in 

 which capacity he served the interests of science in the town of 

 Brighton very faithfully for eight years. Increasing age and 

 deafness led him to resign the Chair, but he was annually re-elected 

 a member of the Committee, and although rarely attending the 

 meetings, continued to be actively interested in the Museum, and 

 assisted the curators in every way. Edward Crane published in the 

 Brighton Public Museum Report for the years 1891-92 (Brighton, 

 1892) a " List of the Type Specimens in the Brighton Museum." 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1872, 

 and frequently attended the meetings in London until his age and 

 deafness denied him the pleasure. He was an enthusiastic visitor at 

 the Natural History Museum, and also visited the principal museums 

 of Central Europe and Scandinavia. In 1881, accompanied by his 

 daughter, he made an extended tour in the Eastern and Western 

 United States and Canada, and in the Winter of 1884—5 visited Spain. 

 Cuba, Mexico, and the Southern United States. He had formed 

 warm friendships with scientists of that great country, which he 

 dearly loved. Edward Crane remained deeply interested in scientific 

 literature up to the last, and was keenly enjoying Macnamara's 

 " Origin and Character of the British People," and his dear friend 

 Mrs. Zelia Nuttall's " Fundamental Principles of Old and New 

 World Civilizations," during the last week of his life. Edward 

 Crane passed suddenly away from heart disease of long standing 

 at St. John's Lodge, Wellington Eoad, Brighton, on April 25th, 

 1901, and was cremated and interred on April 30th at Woking, 

 Surrey (No. 458, facing north-west), by his written directions. His 

 widow, Jane Crane, survives him, and he leaves issue an only 

 daughter, Agnes Crane, who has been a frequent contributor to 

 the pages of the Geological Magazine and other periodicals. 



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Complimentary Dinner to Sir Archibald Geikik, D.C.L., 

 F.E.S., ETC. — Sir Archibald Geikie, who retired from the position 

 of Director- General of the Geological Survey on February 28th, 

 after forty-six years of public service, was entertained on May 1st 

 at a complimentary dinner held at the Criterion, Piccadilly Circus. 

 The Eight Hon. Lord Avebury took the chair, and among those 

 present were Major-General Sir John Donnelly, Sir George Stokes, 

 Sir John Evans, Sir Frederick Abel, Sir Norman Lockyer, Sir Henry 

 Craik, Sir William Turner, Sir Michael Foster, Sir Henry E. Roscoe, 

 Sir Lauder Brunton, Sir Henry Howorth, Sir John Murray, Admiral 

 Sir William Wharton, Major-General Festing, Prof. E. Eay Lankester, 

 Mr. S. E. Spring-Eice, Prof. T. McK. Hughes, Mr. Digby Piggott, 

 Colonel Johnston, Prof. Bonney, Prof. Lapworth, Prof. Watts, 

 Prof. J. Geikie, Prof. Wiltshire, Prof. Hull, Dr. W. T. Blanford, 

 Lieut.-General McMahon, Dr. Horace T. Brown, Major Craigie, 



