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SIR JOHN EVANS, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S., 



A Trustee of the British Museum. 

 BoRX November 17, 1823. Died May 31, 1908. 



AYe regret to announce the death of Sir John Evans, the dis- 

 tinguished antiquary and geologist, an account of whose life and 

 labours in the cause of science we published, with a portrait, in 

 the Geological Magazine for Januarj-, 1908 (pp. 1-10), together 

 with a list of his writings. For some time past he had been suffering 

 from an internal complaint, which became critical, necessitating an 

 operation. He died on the 31st May in his 85th year. Sir John 

 Evans was from 1864 a constant supporter of the GEOLOGiCAi 

 Magazine, to the pages of which he was also a frequent con- 

 tributor. 



CALEB BARLOW. 

 Born July 7, 1840. Died May S, 1908. 



Amongst those who in the latter part of the last and the beginning 

 of the present century had been attached to the staff of the Geological 

 Department, no one has left a more indelible record of long and 

 excellent work performed than Caleb Barlow, the able formatore, 

 developer, and modeller of extinct animals in the British Museum. 

 Caleb Barlow, like Hugh Miller, was a mason and the son of a mason. 

 He was born at Alton, Staffordshire, in the country of the ]S"ew lied 

 Sandstone, the Coal-measures, and the Carboniferous Limestone, where 

 stone-quarrying or stone-cutting is the natural business of a large 

 number of its inhabitants. Doubtless his early acquaintance with 

 organic remains of various kinds in the rocks, as was the case with 

 William Smith, Hugh Miller, and many others, led Barlow to take so 

 great an interest in fossils in his later years. 



He spent his youth and earh^ manhood working at various places 

 in Staffordshire and Shropshire, living for a year or two at Shifnal, 

 and coming to London in 1864. Here he was engaged as a mason 

 on several important public buildings, and was intimately associated 

 with Mr. Henry Broadhurst, M.P. (who was also a working mason), 

 and Mr. Bichard Hall, afterwards a co-worker with Barlow during 

 twenty-eight years in the Geological Department. 



C. Barlow entered the Geological Laboratory on l^ovember 16th, 

 1874, serving for five years at the old British Museum, Bloomsbury, 

 prior to the removal to the new building in Cromwell Eoad, assisting 

 during 1880 with Dr. Henry Woodward, Mr. William Da vies, 

 Mr. R. Etheridge, and Mr. B. B. [N'ewton, in the task of removing 

 the great collection of fossils to Cromwell Boad, and with Richard 

 Hall placing all the larger objects in the exhibition galleries ready 

 for the opening in April, 1881. 



It was largely due to the skill and knowledge previously acquired 

 in moving of large and heavy stones that the great series of remains 

 of extinct animals were safely and successfully transported to their 

 present home. Some idea may be conceived of the work accom- 

 plished between June and October, 1880, when it is stated that the 



