190 OMtuanj— Thomas Barron, A.E.C.8., F.G.S. 



and palaeontology at Toynbee Hall, and since he settled in Edin> 

 burgh he had lectured on these subjects at the Ileriot-Watt College 

 and other institutions. Possessing remarkable powers of receptivity, 

 a mind extremely susceptible of new ideas, and a facile pen, he 

 contributed a very large number of papers — about 200 — on a wide 

 range of subjects to the Proceedings of various scientific societies in 

 England and Scotland, and no fewer than 24 to the pages of the 

 Geological Magazine (1874-1902). He also edited the important 

 work in two volumes on Scottish Mineralogy, by the late Professor 

 Heddle, published after Prof. Heddle's death. In recognition of his 

 labours he was awarded, in 1874, the Wollaston Fund by the 

 Geological Society of London. His versatile gifts were further 

 shown by his keen interest in other branches of science, his know- 

 ledge of botany and ornithology being considerable. All these 

 varied qualifications made him a valuable conductor of field- 

 excursions, and an exponent of geological problems among numerous 

 scientific societies. His restless mental and bodily energy, reacting 

 on a constitution never very robust, may be said to have shortened 

 his career. He leaves a widow and three sons, the eldest of whom 

 graduated with honours at Cambridge, and is now Principal of the 

 Technical College at Wandsworth. London; the second is a magazine 

 artist, and the third recently graduated in medicine at Edinburgh 

 University. 



At a meeting of the Edinburgh Geological Society on Feb. 21st, 

 Mr, James Currie, F.R.S.E., the President, moved, and Dr. J. 

 Home, F.R.S., seconded, the following resolution, which was at 

 once carried: — "That the Edinburgh Geological Society desires to 

 place on record their appreciation of the valuable work done by 

 the late Mr. Goodchild in the sphere of general geolog}', and more 

 especially in the elucidation of problems connected with Scottish 

 geology and mineralogy, and expresses its sincere sympathy with 

 his widow and family." — The Scotsman, February 22nd, 1906. 



THOMAS BARRON, A.R.C.S., F.G.S. 

 BoRx 1867. Died January 30, 1906. 



Thomas Bakron was educated at Greenlaw public school, Berwick- 

 shire, and afterwards attended the Science and Art Classes at Hume. 

 He gained a medal with first-class honours and a scholarship in 

 the Normal School of Science (as it was then called) at South 

 Kensington. In that school he continued his studies; he was elected 

 mi Associate of the Koyal College of Science, and eventually he 

 became Assistant Demonstrator to Professor Judd. 



In 1896 he communicated to the Geological Magazine a paper 

 " On a new British Rock containing Nepheline and Riebeckite." 



He was subsequently appointed to a post on the Geological Survey 

 iif Egypt, and there he laboured with signal success. 



In 1901, with Dr. W. F. Hume, he contributed to the Geological 

 Magazine "Notes on the Geology of the Eastern Desert of Egypt," 



