THE 
GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 
NEW OSsERIes.. DECADE VM. VOL" IW. 
No. II.— FEBRUARY, 1907. 
OL GeEN-AS,) Alka Eee S- 
T.—Eminent Livine Geroxoeists : 
Witiram Warraker, B.A. (Lond.), F.R.S., F.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., 
F.R. San. Inst. ; 
Past President of the Geological Society, the Geologists Association, the Norwich 
Geological Society, the "Hampshire Field Club, the Hampshire Literary and 
Philosophical Society, the Hertfordshire Natural History Societ oy, the South- ° 
Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, the Croydon Microscopical and Natural 
History Club; of Section C, British Association, 1895; and of Section III, 
Congress of the Sanitary Institute (twice). 
(WITH A PORTRAIT, PLATE IIL.) 
MONG the many distinguished geologists and men of science 
whom one has been accustomed to meet, year after year, at the 
gatherings of the Geological Society, the British Association, and the 
Geologists’ Association during the past forty years, none has, by good 
camaraderie and hard work both in the field and study, established 
a better claim to our warm personal regard and esteem than 
Mr. Whitaker, whose portrait we present to our readers this month. 
William Whitaker was born at 69, Hatton Garden, London, on the 
4th May, 1836. Like the forebears of Professor Prestwich and 
Professor John Ruskin, Mr. Whitaker’s father was an old-established 
Wine-importer in Crutched Friars. 
His early education was begun in 1846 at a boarding-school in 
St. John’s Wood. After two years at farms in Kent he was ‘transferred 
to the Grammar School of St. Albans, on the Chalk, Reading Beds, 
and Glacial Drifts, with which his name and work, as a geologist, 
were in after years to be so long and intimately connected in the East 
of England. 
From St. Albans he entered University College, Gower Street, in 
1852, where, a quarter of a century earlier, Prestwich had been 
a student. Here he ultimately devoted himself to science, beginning 
with chemistry and then studying geology under Professor Morris, 
through whose teaching he gained much valuable geological knowledge, 
to be applied in later years in the field. He took his B.A. degree in 
the University of London, with honours in chemistry, in 1855. 
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