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If not one of the actual founders, Mr. Law was one of the early, 

 most active, and notable of the leading men connected with the now 

 defunct Todmorden Scientific Association, and regularly took his part 

 in the lectures and debates. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological 

 Society in 1886.1 



ARTHUR BEAVOR WYNNE. 



Born October, 1835. Died December, 1906. 



A. B. Wynne, an energetic and enthusiastic geologist, was in 1855 

 appointed an Assistant Geologist on the Geological Survey of Ireland, 

 under Jukes, and was engaged in surveying chiefly in counties 

 Tipperary, Waterford, and Cork. 



Resigning his post in 1862, upon being appointed on the staff of 

 the Indian Geological Survey, he laboured zealously for eleven years 

 in the neighbourhood of Bombay, and in the Punjab, working at the 

 stratigraphy of the Salt Range, and at the problems of mountain- 

 building. 



Ill-health compelled him in 1883 to retire from his work in India, 

 but in the same year he temporarily rejoined the Geological Survey 

 in Ireland, to take charge of the Office work. Here he continued to 

 labour until 1890. 



He was for many years a supporter and frequent contributor to the 

 pages of the Geological Magazine, taking part in 1867 in the great 

 discussion on Denudation, when he utilized both his Irish and Indian 

 experience. Occasionally he signed a letter in Indian characters, as 

 when writing in 1875, on the inverted strata of the Mendips. To 

 the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Ireland and India he 

 contributed the I'esults of his field work ; while other of his papers 

 were published by the Geological Society, and by the Royal Geological 

 Society of Ireland, of which he was President in 1889. 



MARK STIRRUP, F.G.S. 



Born 1831. Died June 10, 1907. 



A ZEALOUS member of the Manchester Geological Society, Mr. Stirrup 

 had communicated to that body the results of observations on the 

 Glacial Geology of Llandudno (1883), and on the effects of Marine 

 Erosion as shown by the Sea-Cliffs and Sea-Caves of the British Isles 

 (1897). He also wrote an account of the early history of that Society 

 (1897). 



To the Geological Magazine he communicated in 1885 a translation 

 of Charles Brongniart's important paper on the Fossil Insects of the 

 Primary Rocks. In 1890 he wrote on Wind - Waves and Tidal 

 Currents, drawing attention to Hermann Fol's observations on the 

 movements of water, made, whilst engaged in diving, at depths of 

 more than 100 feet in the Mediterranean. The true Horizon of the 



1 The above remarks are mainly taken. from the Rochdale Observer, Jan. 4th, 1908. 



