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REV. JAMES CLIFTON WARD, F.G.S. 
Tur announcement of the death of the subject of this notice must 
have been to most of his many friends a shock wholly unexpected, 
both on account of the early age at which he passed away, and the 
very brief illness which preceded his decease. 
After a weakly boyhood, he entered the Royal School of Mines as 
a student in 1861, and gained the Edward Forbes Medal and prize 
of books in 1864. In the following year he joined the Geological 
Survey, and was sent down to Yorkshire. He worked there on the 
Millstone-grit and Lower Coal-measures in the neighbourhoods of 
Sheffield, Penistone, Huddersfield, Halifax, and Leeds. Though 
Ward was never of robust appearance, he had obviously increased 
both in height and breadth since leaving the School of Mines, when 
seen by the present writer in 1868; so weil had the laborious but 
healthy work of the Survey agreed with him. While in Yorkshire 
he always preferred Millstone-grit to Coal-measure work, and his 
paper read before the Geological Society in 1869 marks the scene of 
his last labours in that county. It is ‘‘On Beds of supposed Roth- 
liegende Age near Knaresborough ;” and in it he proves the Mill- 
stone-gvit affinities of the beds in question, known as the Plumpton 
Grits. 
In 1869 he was transferred to Keswick, and the change from a 
colliery district to a locality not only devoid of coal-pits, but one in 
which wild Nature puts forth all her charms, was in the highest 
degree pleasing to him. At Keswick his activity became two-fold. 
His Survey work and its results are now represented by his 
Geological Survey Memoir on “The Geology of the Northern Part 
of the English Lake District ” (published in 1876), and by numerous 
maps and sections. He also contributed many papers to the 
Geological Society, and to various periodicals, bearing on the 
structure of the Lake Country. Of these may be mentioned, in the 
first place, two on its glaciation, entitled: ‘The Origin of some of 
the Lake Basins of Cumberland,” Q.J.G.S. 1874; and, “The Glacia- 
tion of the Southern Part of the Lake District, ete.,” Q.J.G.S. 1875. 
In both papers the origin of the lakes is discussed, and (as regards 
the English Lake Country) the original investigations of the author 
confirm the views so long held by Professor A. C. Ramsay. These 
papers are illustrated by sheets of sections of the highest interest and 
