036 Obituary—Prof. Ansted ; H. Ludlam; W. Holloway. 
brief illness, which only at the last seemed dangerous, caused. his 
departure, at the age of thirty-seven years, for “the land of the leal,” 
leaving behind a widow and two children. 
His sweet and genial disposition, and the absence in him of the 
least approach to the temper of the dogmatist, caused him to number 
among his friends men of every shade of speculative opinion. It was 
this amiability, in addition to his ability as a lecturer, and the single- 
mindedness of his desire for the spread of knowledge, which made 
him so successful in connexion with the Cumberland Association, 
when the simple fact of his not being a Cumbrian by birth would 
have been fatal to any merely active and zealous man. For 
the Cumbrians, like their Scottish neighbours, have no urgent need to 
pray,—‘ Lord! gie us a gude conceit 0’ oursels ;” and would certainly 
have resented any approach to a “ gude conceit” of himself in any 
stranger taking upon himself a prominent position as a reformer in 
their county. His success, therefore, in that capacity, is perhaps the- 
most remarkable achievement adorning the short but admirable life 
of James Clifton Ward.—-T. V. H. 
PROF. D. T. ANSTED, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., ETC. 
Born 1814; Diep 1880. 
By the death of Prof. Ansted, geological science has lost one of its cultivators, 
both in its scientific aspect, and also in its practical bearings. 
Born in 1814, he was educated at a private school in London and afterwards at 
Cambridge, where he took high Mathematical honours as a Wrangler in 1836, and 
attained his M.A. in 1839. For some time he was a Fellow of Jesus College. In 
1840 he became the Professor of Geology at King’s College, London, and in 1844, 
Lecturer on Geology at Addiscombe, and Professor of Geology at the College of 
Civil Engineers, Putney. About this period (1844), he accepted the post of Vice- 
Secretary of the Geological Society of London, and Editor of the Quarterly Journal 
of the Society. In 1868 he was appointed Examiner in Physical Geography to the 
Science and Art Department. 
Since 1848 he has been chiefly occupied asa Consulting Mining Engineer. Prof. 
Ansted has written numerous works on Geology and Physical Geography, as well as 
contributing to most of the leading scientific journals of the day. 
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Henry Lupram, F G.S—We have also to notice with deep regret the death 
(on June 28rd) of our friend Mr. Henry Ludlam, F.G.S., who specially devoted him- 
self to the study of Mineralogy, and whose private collection is the finest in London 
both in foreign and British species. It includes both the Turner and Nevill 
Collections, as well as the choicest minerals from many other well-known Cabinets, 
WE regret to notice the death of Mr. W. H. Hotroway, F.G.S., of the Geological 
Survey of England and Wales. Mr. Holloway joined the Survey in 1869, and 
received his training in field-work from Prof. Judd, on the Liassic and Oolitic district 
described in the Memoir on the Geology of Rutland. Since this time he has been 
continuously employed in mapping these rocks and overlying Drift deposits in 
Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, particularly in the neighbourhood of Grantham 
and Sleaford, where his work was carried on in great detail and with every attention 
to minute accuracy. Mr. Holloway was a Member of the Geologists’ Association, 
and was one of the directors at the excursion made to Grantham and N ottingham, at 
Easter, 1876. 
