Obituanj—Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S., F.G.S. 575 



he contributed several papers to the Geological Society, British 

 Association, etc. In 1871 he removed to Hendon, Middlesex, and 

 «ince that time he carried on researches in North Wales and 

 Scotland, the results being communicated in numerous papers to 

 the Geological Society, Geologists Association, and the Gkological 

 Magazine. Of late his investigations vvere confined mainly to 

 the oldest (Pre-Cambrian) rocks of Great Britain, and he has 

 ■shown that they are exposed in many areas in which their presence 

 had been hitherto unsuspected. Dr. Hicks described many new 

 fossils discovered by him in the Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian 

 rocks, and has written several papers on their classification. He 

 published the results of explorations carried on by him in the 

 ■ossiferous caverns in North and South Wales, in which evidence 

 is given to show that man occupied some of the caverns during 

 s, part of the Glacial Period. In 1891 he described the glacial 

 deposits at Hendon and Finchle}^ and in 1892 he published an 

 account of the discovery of Mammoth and other remains in 

 Endsleigh Street, London, with sections of the deposits in which, 

 they were found. He also wrote several papers on the rocks of 

 North Devon, and discovered a rich fauna in the " Morte Slates," 

 which until then were considered to be entirely unfossiliferous. 

 In 1896-7 he published his views on the " Morte Slates " of 

 North Devon and West Somerset in the Geological Magazine, 

 He prepared a new Geological Map of North Wales for the 

 International Geological Congress which met in London in 1888. 

 Dr. Hicks was awarded the Bigsby Medal by the Geological Society 

 in 1883, and served that Society as Hon. Secretary and afterwards 

 as President during the years 1896 and 1897. He was President 

 of the Geologists Association in 1883-5, and was elected a Fellow of 

 the Eoyal Society in 1885. He was an Honorary and CorresjDondino- 

 Member of many Geological and Natural History Societies in this 

 country and abroad. Dr. Hicks died rather unexpectedly at his 

 residence at Hendon, after only a very short illness, on November 18th, 

 in his sixty-second year. His loss will be keenly felt by his many 

 friends in the Geological Society and the Geologists Association, 

 who appreciated his great abilities and sterling worth. 



SIR J. WILLIAM DAWSON, C.IVI.G.,1l.D. (Edin.), D.C.L 

 F.R.S., F.G.S. 

 Born October 30, 1820. Died November 19, 1899. 



A TELEGRAM in the Morning Post of November 20th announces 

 the death on the 19th inst., at the age of 79, of this eminent 

 Canadian geologist, who was almost equally well-known and beloved 

 among geologists on this side of the Atlantic. 



Sir J. William Dawson was born at Pictou, Nova Scotia, on 

 October 30th, 1820. He graduated at the University of Edinburo-h 

 and returning home devoted himself to the study of the Natural 

 History and Geology of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The 

 results of these investigations were published in his " Acadian 

 Geology" (3rd ed., 1878). In 1842, and again in 1852, he 

 accompanied Sir Charles Lyell in his explorations in Nova Scotia 



