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have been ended so early. Charles Brongniart was elected 

 a Foreign Correspondent of the Geological Society of London iu 

 1888, and died April IS, 1899, aged 40. 



TOWNSHEND MONCKTON HALL, F.G.S. 



Born March 22, 1845. Died July 1, 1899. 



TowNSHEND Hall was born at Torquay in 1815, and studied for 

 a short time at Wadham College, Oxford. On leaving there he gave 

 himself up to science, and especially to geology. A paper by him on 

 the distribution of fossils in the North Devon Series was printed 

 in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (1867, vol. xxiii, 

 pp. 371-381) ; but his chief contributions to the geology and 

 mineralogy of his native county ai'e in the Trans. Devon Association 

 (of which he was a member from the first), and include papers 

 on mineral localities, raised beaches, submerged forests, concentric 

 lamination, mineral oil, classification of North Devon rocks, and 

 various matters of local geology. He also contributed to the 

 Geological Magazine and to the Mineralogical Magazine, and 

 wrote several sketches of the Geology of Devonshire or parts thereof, 

 and the " Mineralogists' Directory." He became, indeed, well known 

 as our chief local authority on North Devon. 



PROFESSOR ROBERT W. BUNSEN, Ph.D. 

 Born Makuh 13, ISll. Died August 16, 1899. 



Although Bunsen achieved his great reputation as a chemist, 

 and held the Chair of Chemistry in the University of Heidelberg for 

 many years, he wrote (especially in his earlier life) several papers 

 on minerals and on mineral waters, as well as on various geological 

 subjects, notably on the chemico- geology of Iceland. To the 

 scientific world he is largely known for his work on spectrum 

 analysis, resulting in the discovery of the elements ceesium and 

 rubidium ; whilst to the world at large he is known by the 

 invaluable gas-burner that bears his name and the principle of 

 which he discovered. Professor R. W. Bunsen was elected a Foreign 

 Member of the Geological Society of London in 1856, holding the 

 honorar}'^ distinction for 43 years. He died at the age of 88 years. 



JOHN BALDRY REDMAN, F.G.S., Memb. Inst. C.E. 

 BoRX 1816. Died December 21, 1899. 



John Baldry Eedman was elected an Associate of the Institution 

 of Civil Engineers in February, 1839, and a Member in March, 

 1816, his name being the earliest on the roll of over 6,300 Members 

 and Associates at the time of his death. He was elected an F.G.S. 

 in 1882. He did much service to geology by his important papers, 

 read to the institution above-named, " On the Alluvial Formations, 

 and the Local Changes, of the South Coast of England," and " The 

 East Coast between the Thames and the Wash Estuaries," published 

 in 1851 and 1865, which were the first systematic account of the 

 changes along a great length of our coast, in this case from Norfolk 

 southward to Dorsetshire. Much other work of the kind was also 



