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OBITUARY NOTICE. 



ALFRED JOHN JUKES-BROWNE, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



By J. COSMO MELVILL, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S. 



(Read before the Society, November nth, 1914). 



It was with unfeigned regret that I read in " The Times " in the 

 middle of August last the obituary notice of one with whom I had 

 maintained a voluminous and interesting correspondence for several 

 years. Mr. Jukes-Browne passed away, after a very brief iUness, on 

 14th August, aged 63, at his residence, " Westleigh," Ash-Hill Road, 

 Torquay. 



Born near Wolverhampton on i6th April, 185 1, son of the late 

 Mr. A. H. Browne, who married Miss C. A. Jukes, known as the 

 authoress of the life of her eminent brother, the geologist, Professor 

 J. Beete Jukes, F.R.S., he inherited a marked leaning first for the 

 science of geology, in which he attained much well-merited fame, 

 and in his later years for the study of a kindred subject, the recent 

 mollusca, notably of the class Pelecypoda. 



Educated at the famous Cholmeley School at Highgate, Middlesex, 

 and subsequently at St. John's College, Cambridge, he passed the 

 Natural Science Tripos in 1873, and took the degree of B.A. 



In the same year he was appointed an assistant, at first temporarily, 

 on the Geological Survey of Great Britain, under Sir Andrew Ramsay, 

 and continued to act till 1901, when, owing to ill-health, he was 

 compelled to retire. Indeed, he was never from early youth very 

 robust, though the strength of his mental powers aided him in appar- 

 ently overcoming his physical delicacy. And for the last twenty 

 years of his life he was very lame and almost unable to walk. 



In 1 90 1 he was awarded the Murchison Medal by the Council of 

 the Geological Society in consideration of his masterly writings on the 

 Upper Cretaceous Rocks, and other services to the cause of the 

 science in this country, and eight years later (1909) he was elected a 

 Fellow of the Royal Society. 



His geological papers were voluminous, over one hundred in 

 number, while his separate publications include several standard 

 works, recognised as text-books of proven authority on the subjects 

 with which they deal. Such are : — 



