THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE V. VOL. V. 



No. I. — JANTTARY, 1908. 



O'iRXO-Xlsr^A.JL, -A.RTICLES. 



I. — Eminent Living Geologists : 



Sm John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., F.S.A F G S 

 E.C.S., E.L.S., r.Z.S.; ' " " 



Assoc. Inst. C.E., late V.P. and Treas. E.S., For. Sec. Geol. Soc, Pres. Eoy. 

 Num. Soc, Trust. Brit. Mus., Hon. M.R.I. Acad., Hon. F.S.A. Scot.* Corr.' 

 Inst. France and of the Acad, of Sciences of Bologna, Comm. Ord. St. Thiago 

 Port., Officer of the Order of St. Charles of Monaco, etc., etc. 



(WITH A PORTRAIT, PLATE I.) 



FEW men who have engaged successfully in commerce for nearly 

 half a century have achieved so distinguished a position in the 

 world of science as Sir John Evans. Indeed, it may be said that his 

 keen intellect, which enabled him to excel in business affairs, also 

 gave him enormous advantages in pursuing those branches of natural 

 knowledge to the investigation of which he has devoted his long life 

 and his remarkable abilities, ever combining "science with practice." 

 His powers of observation have always been singularly acute, and the 

 writer recalls vividly a walk across the open country in Hertfordshire 

 years ago, in his company, with Professor Boyd Dawkins and the late 

 W. Ayshford Sanford, and being struck with the rapidity with which 

 John Evans's well-trained eye detected a flint implement on the stony 

 surface of a stubble-field, overlooked by the rest of the party. 



John Evans, son of the late Rev. Arthur Benoni Evans, D.D., was 

 born at Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks, 17th November, 1823, and 

 moved as a child with his parents to Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, 

 on his father's appointment as Head Master of the Grammar School, 

 in which he at once commenced to study. His first introduction to 

 Geology was at the early age of 9, when hammer in hand he paid 

 a visit, in June, 1832, to the famous "Wren's Nest" and Wenlock 

 Limestone quarries at Dudley ; there he found his first fossils, and 

 returned home rejoicing and laden with spoils. In 1839 he was sent 

 by his father to Germany for seven months to study the language, 

 and in 1840 he left school and entered upon a business career at 

 Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, where he was initiated into the art of 

 paper-making under the firm of John Dickinson & Co., of which his 

 uncle, the late J. Dickinson, F.E..S., was senior partner. It can easily 



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