Sir John Evans, K.C.B. 7 



Industry, delivering an address at Liverpool, and in lyOO Chairman of 

 the Society of Arts. For many years he has been President of the 

 Paper Manufacturers' Association. 



He received the honour of being created K.C.B. in 1892. His 

 services to the County of Herts as Chairman of Quarter Sessions 

 and of the County Council, and in other capacities, were recognised 

 in 1905 by the presentation of his portrait and of a magnificent silver- 

 gilt cup. For seven years he was President of the Ejiypt Exploration 

 Fund, and he has from its inception been Chairman of the Lawes 

 Agricultural Trust Committee. His knowledge of affairs and of men, 

 Ms courtesy, tact, and clearness of view, his happy gift of expression 

 and facility in drafting a resolution, his readiness to yield on matters 

 of minor importance and his firmness on those of principle, will make 

 one so witty and yet so wise, so strong and yet so conciliatory, sorely 

 missed when he disappears from the ranks of those who have worked 

 for the good of science and learning. 



Sir John Evans married, first, Harriet Ann, dauiihter of John 

 Dickinson, F.R.S. ; second, Frances, daughter of Joseph Phelps ; 

 third, Maria Millington, daughter of Charles C. Lathbury, Wimbledon, 

 1892. He has two sons and two daughters sur\T.ving. His eldest son, 

 Arthur John Evans, D.Litt. Oxford, Hon. LL.D. Edin., Hon. Litt.D. 

 Dublin, M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A., has been Keeper of the Ashmolean 

 Museum, Oxford, since 1884, and is a Fellow of Brasenose College, 

 Oxford; was born 1851. Sir John Evans celebrated his 84th birthday 

 on the l7th November last, and was warmly congratulated upon the 

 auspicious event by the Press and by a wide circle of friends and 

 scientific colleagues. 



His ardour in the pursuit of his favourite study of Geological 

 Anthropology remains unabated. So lately as the 18th December last 

 he communicated to the Geological Society of London an important 

 paper on some recent discoveries of palaeolithic implements on the 

 southern borders of Bedfordshire and in the north-western part of 

 Hertfordshire, obtained by Mr. Worthington Smith, of Dunstable. 

 In addition to the discovery of a palaeolithic floor at Caddington 

 brickfield, at between 550 and 590 feet above sea-level, implements 

 have since been found on the surface of the ground at 60i) and 

 760 feet respectively ; while a good ovate implement was found 

 in thin, water-laid material, at 651 feet O.D. In Hertfordshire 

 palseolithic implements have been found at Great Gaddesden, at 

 a brickfield about 1^ mile north-east of Heiiiel Hempstead, and at 

 Bedmont, 2 to 2\ miles south-east of the last locality. The drifts 

 which cap the hills in North- West Hertfordshire seem to be of very 

 variable origin, and a great part of the material is derived from 

 clay-deposits of Eocene age, but little remanie. It seems to Sir 

 John that it is safest not to invoke river-action for the formation of 

 the high-level deposits, which extend over a wide area and are in the 

 main argillaceous and not gravelly or sandy in charactei, but to adopt 

 Mr. Worthington Smith's view, that in early times lakes or marshes 

 existed in these implementiferous spots, the holders of whicli were 

 inhabited by Palseolithic Man. The evidence that he has brought 

 forward as to the implements havin<j;, in some of the Caddington pits, 

 been manufactured on the spot, most fully corroborates this view. 



