48 Correspondence — Obitncir//. 



JUBILEE MEETING OF THE GLASGOW GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Sir, — The Geological Society of Glasgow, instituted in 1 858, has now 

 entered the fil'ty-first year of its existence. The Council have made 

 arrangements to celebrate the event by holding a Jubilee meeting in 

 Glasgovr University on January 28, 1909. Sir Archibald Geikie, 

 P.E.S., the senior member of the Society, has promised to be present 

 and deliver an address. Sir Donald MacAlister, Dr. Teall (Director 

 of the Geological Survey of Great Britain), Dr. Home, Dr. Peach, 

 and other eminent men of science will take part in the proceedings. 

 A history of the work of the Society, with biographical notices of 

 prominent members, is being prej^ared under the editorship of the 

 Secretaries, Messrs. Peter Macuair, P.R.S.E., F.G.S., and Frederick 

 Mort, M.A., B.Sc, P.G.S., F.R.S.G.S., who hope to issue the book 

 by the end of the year. 



Peedeeick Moet, Hon. Sec. 



OBITTJ^^I?,"^". 



PROFESSOR ALBERT JEAN GAUDRY, 



Memb. lust. Erauce ; For. Memb. E. S. ; For. Memb. GeoL Soc. 



BoHN 1827. Died November 27, 1908. 



"We regret to record the decease of the eminent Professor of 

 Palaeontology, Professor Albert J. Gaudry, who for fifty years had 

 been connected with the Museum of Natural History in the Jardin 

 des Plantes, and wliose life, accompanied by his portrait, we published 

 in the Geological Magazine for February, 1903, pp. 49-53, on the 

 occasion of his retirement from office. We learn from his successor, 

 Professor Marcellin Boule, that Professor Gaudiy had been in failing- 

 health for some time, but up to the last his mental activity had never 

 deserted him, and he had just lately published his " Fossiles de 

 Patagonie. De I'economie dans la Nature " (Ext. de Annales de 

 Paleontologie, t. iii, pp. 44-60, 71 figures, Paris, 1908). His 

 memory will long be cherished by a very large circle of fellow- 

 workers and personal friends, to whom he was endeared by his many 

 acts of kindness and by the natural amiability of his disposition to all 

 Avith whom he came in contact. 



JOSEPH LOMAS, F.G.S. 

 We deeply regret to have to record the death of Mr. Joseph Lomas, 

 F.G.S., who perished in a railway accident near Biskra, Algeria, 

 on December 18, 1908. Mr. Lomas was visiting Algeria to study 

 desert conditions for a Committee of the British Association appointed 

 at Dublin last September. We hope to give some account of- his life- 

 work next month. 



