92 Obituary— Sir Thomas Wardle—H. M. Bernard. 



But his bent lay clearly towards the economic side of geology, and 

 especially towards the important industry of the Scottish Coalfields. 

 Hence, in anticipation of the new editions of the one-inch maps of the 

 Fife Coalfield, he was entrusted with the task of revising parts of 

 these Coalfield areas and obtaining information regarding mining and 

 boring operations since the date of the original survey. His services 

 in this connection were acknowledged by Sir Archibald Geikie in 

 the two official memoirs which he wrote on the Geology of East and 

 Central Fife. Since then he endeavoured to acquire an intimate 

 knowledge of the development of the Fife Coalfield by gaining access 

 to the journals of recent bores. Indeed, he obtained in a remarkable 

 degree the confidence of those specially interested in this industry, 

 in proof of which it may be mentioned that his opinion regarding the 

 sites of new bores and the interpretation of geological horizons was 

 much sought after in recent years. More recently Mr. "Wilson 

 re-examined the Carboniferous area of the Lothians and gave a concise 

 description of the geology of the oil-shale fields, since published in 

 a Survey Memoir. 



His early chemical training was of service to the Geological Survey, 

 for at intervals he carried out a series of chemical analyses of volcanic 

 and plutonic rocks, of crystalline gneisses and schists, some of which 

 have been published in Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by 

 Sir Archibald Geikie, and in the recent memoir on " The Geological 

 Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland". Since the 

 institution of a chemical laboratory in the new office of the Scottish 

 Survey, he has made a series of analyses of Carboniferous limestones 

 from the midland valley of Scotland. 



J. H. 



SIR THOMAS WARDLE, J. P., F.G.S., F.C.S. 



BoEN January 26, 1831. Died January 3, 1909. 



Sir Thomas Waedle, who was a silk dyer and calico printer at 

 Leek, and for many years President of the Silk Association of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, was also an active member of the North Stafford- 

 shire Field Club, to which he had contributed geological papers. 

 He was best known to geologists as author of The Geology of the 

 Neighbourhood of Leeh, Staffordshire, 1863. In 1890 he acted as 

 one of the directors on the excursion of the Geologists' Association to 

 North Staffordshire, and conducted the party to the Yoredale Eocks 

 of Butterton Moor, where attention was called to the hard calciferous 

 gritstones, which he regarded as " theoretically the best road-forming 

 rocks" (Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. xi, p. cxxxii). 



HENRY MEYNERS BERNARD, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Born November 29, 1853. Died January 4, 1909. 



The death of Henry M. Bernaid removes from our midst a friend and 



fellow-worker who will be greatly missed by a large circle of men of 



science. Mr. Bernard took mathematical honours at Cambridge as B.A. 



in 1876, and entered the Church, his last charge being a Chaj^laincy at 



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