ee Obituary—Sir I. Tress Barry. 
showed at the lecture ‘‘a series of periodically oscillating waves 
moving in one direction over a fixed bottom, and expending themselves 
on a sandy shore,” and proved that under such waves ripples formed. 
exactly as they did in the moving tank with vertical sides, I can only 
suppose that Mr. Hunt was not at the lecture, and is judging without 
haying seen the experiments. Herrtua AYRION. 
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February 28th, 1907. 
OBITUARY - 
SIR“ FRANCIS TRESS* BARRY,” BART. DE Var Easene 
Born 1825. Disp Frsruary 28, 1907. 
We regret to announce the death of Sir Francis Tress Barry, Bart., 
of Keiss Castle, Caithness, N.B., on the 28th February, at his 
Berkshire residence, St. Leonard’s Hull, near Windsor, in his 
83rd year, after a long and severe illness. The late Baronet filled 
the position of British Vice-Consul for the province of Biscay, Spain, 
in 1846, and was Acting Consul for the provinces of Biscay, Santander, 
‘and Guipuzcoa in 1847. In 1854 Mr. Barry was offered by the Earl 
of Clarendon the appointment of British Consul at Madrid, but was 
obliged to decline it as he had established himself as a merchant at 
Bilbao. Returning to England shortly after, he joined his brother-in- 
law, Mr. James Mason, in the exploitation of the famous San Domingo 
copper-mines in Portugal, from which time many honours fell to him. 
He was decorated with the Order of Christ by the King of Portugal 
in 18638, five years after being raised to the rank of Commander of the 
same Order. In 1880 he was decorated by the King of Spain with 
the Cross of Naval Merit (Second Class). He acted as Consul-General 
in England for Ecuador in 1872. Suir Francis represented Windsor in 
the Conservative interest from 1890 to 1906. He was created a Baronet 
in 1899, and also held the Portuguese title of Baron de Barry. Sir 
Francis is succeeded by his son, Major Edward Arthur Barry, who was 
born in 1858.—Morning Post, March 1st, 1907. 
For many years Sir Francis Barry devoted himself, when at Keiss 
Castle, to the exploration of the numerous prehistoric towers on his 
estate in Caithness, known as ‘ Brocks.’ These buildings, constructed 
of flat flags of Old Red Sandstone without any mortar, were extremely 
well built, circular in form, and originally some 30 feet in height, with 
solid walls of enormous thickness. Their history is quite unknown. 
One is still standing on Pomona, near Kirkwall, Shetlands. Those in 
Caithness have been destroyed, save their foundations, which were dug 
out by Sir Francis Barry. He proved that they had been inhabited 
for long periods, the débris, or middens, containing remains of the 
elk, reindeer, red deer, wolf, wild boar, pig, Bos, sheep, goat, and 
various birds; of Aves the most interesting was the great auk 
(Alca impennis), of which a considerable number of entire skulls, ete., 
were obtained. It was Sir Francis Barry’s intention to publish a full 
account of these most interesting prehistoric remains, but save for 
a small octavo pamphlet they have no record by him. 
