52 Eminent Living Geologists— 
water-supply for towns and public buildings, principally in the 
eastern and south-eastern counties of England. He has also reported 
on the Kent coal borings. 
No man has been more assiduous in helping others individually or 
by taking part in the ordinary meetings, councils, and committees of 
various learned societies and field clubs. As a director of excursions 
he has ever proved a popular, a ready, and most able guide, as may 
be gathered from the Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association in 
particular. Recognition of his services has been frequently shown by 
his election to Presidential chairs, an honour not without attendant 
labour, if we may judge from the record of his addresses. Other 
recognitions have been given in the awards by the Council of the 
Geological Society in 1886 of the Murchison Medal, and in 1906 of 
the singularly appropriate Prestwich Medal, which, as the President 
of the Geological Society (Dr. J. E. Marr) said, had been awarded 
‘Cas an acknowledgment of the value of your researches among the 
Tertiary strata of the London and Hampshire Basins . . . . which 
were advanced in a high degree by the founder of the medal. You 
have also followed in the footsteps of Prestwich in matters of economic 
geology—the question of water supply and the study of underground 
geology—for which you, the recipient of the medal, like its founder, 
have done so much.” 
Twenty years earlier, in 1886 (when awarding Mr. Whitaker the 
Murchison Medal), Professor Bonney said: ‘‘ Your papers on the 
western end of the London Basin and on the Lower London Tertiaries 
of Kent deserve to be ranked with the classic memoirs of Prestwich 
as elucidating the geology of what I may call the Home District.” 
Mr. Whitaker claims one negative virtue, he does not smoke; and 
one positive virtue, he walks. 
The following is a list of Mr. Whitaker’s published papers :-— 
1. Papers published in the GrotocicaL Macazine. 
1864. ‘‘Onsome Evidence of there being a Reversal of the Beds near Whitecliff 
Bay, Isle of Wight ’”’: vol. i, pp. 69-71. 
*¢ On the Cliffs at Folkestone’’: ibid., pp. 212-216. 
1867. ‘On Subaérial Denudation, and on Cliffs and Escarpments of the Chalk and 
Lower Tertiary Beds’’: vol. iv, pp. 447-454, 483-493. Reprinted, 
with small additions, 8vo, Hertford, pp. 28. See also vol. v, pp. 46-47. 
1869. (With H. W. Bristow.) ‘‘ On the Formation of the ChesilBank, Dorset” : 
vol. vi, pp. 433-488, pl. xv. See also pp. 574-579. 
‘On a Raised Beach at Portland Bill, Dorset”’: ibid., pp. 488-440. 
«¢On the Connection of the Geological Structure and the Physical Features 
of the South-East of England with the Consumption Death-rate”’ : 
ibid., pp. 499-505. 
1871. ‘* Onthe Chalk of the Cliffs from Seaford to Eastbourne, Sussex ’’: vol. viii, 
pp. 198-200. 
1872. “On the Occurrence of the ‘Chalk Rock’ near Salisbury”: vol. ix, 
pp. 427-428. Reprinted from Mag. Wilts. Archeol. N.H. Soc., 
vol. xiii (1871), pp. 92-93. 
1873. ‘* Remarks on the Section at Shaw Clay Pit”’: vol. x, pp. 142-143. Printed 
in advance of Trans. Newbury District Field Club, vol. ii (1878), pp. 3-6. 
1886. ‘‘On a Recent Legal Decision of Importance in Connection with Water 
Supply from Wells’’: dec. 111, vol. iii, pp. 111-114. Reprinted from 
Trans. San. Inst., vol. vii. . 
‘On the Waterworks at Goldstone Bottom, Brighton”; ibid., pp. 159-161. 
(Abstract, on p. 32, alone referred to in Index.) 
