S82 Ohituary — Richard Hoiose, M.A. 



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SUARDALAN, GLENELG. 



Sir, — At a recent meeting of the Geological Society, after the 

 reading of Mr. G. Barrow's communication on the supposed Silurian 

 Eocks of Forfarshire, Sir A. Geikie alluded to similar rocks which 

 have been found elsewhere along the Highland Border, and (as 

 reported) he gives to me the credit of having found these rocks in 

 the district lying between Loch Lomond and Callander. 



The credit of this discovery does not belong to me, but to my 

 friend and former colleague, Mr. J. E. Dakyns. I merely completed 

 the mapping of the rocks alluded to after Mr. Dakyns left Scotland. 



Glenelg, June 19, 1901. C. T. ClouGH. 



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RICHARD HOWSE, M.A. 



Born 1821. Died 1901. 



All visitors to Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the occasion of the last 

 meeting of the British Association there, in 1889, remember the large 

 and, in some respects, unique collections displayed in the fine and 

 spacious new building known as the " Hancock Museum." Older 

 visitors will also remember the same collections housed, or rather 

 hidden away, in the cramped and crowded old Natural History 

 Museum at the other end of the city. All must have carried away 

 a pleasing recollection of the handsome, dignified and, latterly, 

 venerable naturalist who was the loving and somewhat jealous 

 guardian of the scientific treasures in both places. Mr. Eichard 

 Howse had for so many years been identified with these collections, 

 had for so long watched over, exhibited, and described their 

 rarities, that he had come to be regarded, as it were, as the one 

 living being amongst the multitudinous dead things around him, 

 and it is diificult to think of them bereft of his animating 

 presence. Mr. Howse was no ordinary Curator. Born in 

 Oxfordshire in 1821, much of his boyhood was spent in collecting 

 the land and fresh- water shells, the birds and eggs, and especially 

 the fossils which abound round Thame, his native place. At a 

 very early age he came and established himself as a schoolmaster 

 at South Shields, and from that time — for some sixty years — his 

 residence in the North of England was unbroken. From the 

 moment of his arrival on Tyneside he made the study of the natural 

 objects of the land and sea about him the main purpose of his life. 

 To his extraordinary activity as an observer and collector all the 

 scientific publications of the North bear witness. His name is to 

 be found repeatedly quoted in — I think I may say — every one of the 

 many lists of plants, animals, or fossils which make the Transactions 

 of the Newcastle and Berwickshire Societies so valuable as sources 

 of accurate I'eterence. He was fortunate in coming; at a time when 



