142 Obituary— Mr. Frederick Breir, F.G.S. 



specimen and its state of preservation, pointing out sources of error 

 arising from confounding superinduced structures in the rock, with 

 original markings on the organism. He compared it with those 

 species which appear most nearly to resemble it among previously 

 described forms. He pointed out the exact geological horizon from 

 which it was obtained, as determined by the associated fossils, and 

 then gave the technical description of his new species. 



The same treatment of the specimens and of the species is seen in. 

 Lis description ^ of " Two Abnormal Cretaceous Echinoids." 



In Palaeontology also we must look for his work not so much in 

 published descriptions of new species, as in the large numbers of 

 named fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, from almost every 

 horizon, the determination of which we owe to him. 



The characteristic of his work as of the man was its honesty. 

 We who lived and worked with him up to a few days of the end 

 feel his loss at once ; he is no longer there to help, and many 

 another coming up to the old Museum from time to time will feel it 

 too ; for when a friend or stranger asked to see something in our 

 collections, we would say, " You will find Tom Roberts there," with 

 full confidence that our visitor would return well pleased and the 

 honour of our Museum would be well sustained. 



He was a man of great force of character, of clearness of vision, 

 and soundness of judgment. False reasoning rarely escaped him, 

 and you could no more lose sight of his intellectual presence than of 

 his large and powerful frame. Yet his gentle sympathetic manner 

 and his open truthful eye gave you at once the comfortable feeling 

 that you need not be on your guard with him. Students said that 

 he never tried to put himself on a higher pedestal by scoi"ing off 

 them. He led them on, and rather than drive or urge them, he 

 would ask them to help him to get them through with credit, as 

 if he, not they, were most interested in their success. 



T. McKenny Hughes. 



FREDERICK DREW, F.G.S. , F.R.G.S. 



Born August U, 1836. Died October 25, 1891. 



Mr. Frederick Drew, F.G.S., F.E.G.S., was born August 11th, 

 1836, at Southampton, where his father kept a well-known private 

 school, and at this school he was educated until he was seventeen 

 years of age, when he entered the Eoyal School of Mines, at that 

 time (1853) recently established in connexion with the Jermyn 

 Street Museum. Here he distinguished himself, although younger 

 than some of the other students, by taking all the prizes offered, 

 including the Duke of Cornwall's Scholarship, a Eoyal Scholarship, 

 and the Edward Forbes medal, the last two for the first year in 

 which they were awarded. 



In 1855, on leaving the School of Mines, Frederick Drew joined 

 the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and remained on the staff 

 till 1862, being chiefly engaged in the south-east of England. His 

 ^ Geol. Ma3. Vol. Yin, 1891, p. 116. 



