﻿382 Obituary — John LecJceniy. 



Prof. W. C. Williamson, in 1847, figured and described some of 

 the small fossils from Charing in his comprehensive and far-seeing 

 memoir " On some of the microscopical objects found in the Levant, 

 and other deposits: v\^ith remarks on the mode of formation of 

 calcareous and siliceous rocks," Mem. Manchester Lit. Phil. Soc, 

 vol. viii. See also the supplemental " Corrections of the Nomen- 

 clature of the Objects," etc., op. cit., third series, vol. v. 1872. Dr. 

 Mantell also noticed the excellent results of Mr. Harris's labours on 

 the " Chalk-detritus " and its Animalculites in the sixth edition of his 

 "Wonders of Geology," 1848, and in his "Medals of Creation," 

 1854, etc. 



The Entomostraca from the same source were the incentive, and 

 supplied the chief material for the " Monograph of the Entomostraca 

 of the Cretaceous Formation of England," Pala?,ontogr. Soc, 1849 ; 

 and for its revision in the Geological Magazine, Vol. VII., No. 2, 

 February, 1870, Mr. Harris's collection of similar fossils from the 

 Gault of Kent added largely to the completion of that Monograph. 



Of the Foraminifera and other fossils thus collected at and near 

 Charing, many increased the lists in the second edition of Prof. 

 Morris's "Catalogue of British Fossils," 1854, and are duly 

 acknowledged in the preface. Some small Brachiopods were worthy 

 of Mr. Davidson's attention and description ; and other rare fossils in 

 Mr. Harris's collection are figured in Dixon's Geology of Sussex, etc. 



Mr. Harris devoted much of his leisure to mapping the areas of 

 the Cretaceous strata about Charing on the One-inch Ordnance Map ; 

 and the Geological Surveyors were pleased to avail themselves of his 

 work as far as they could. In company with the writer, in 1854, he 

 found the fossiliferous specimens of Tertiary ironstone in sandpipes 

 of the Chalk near Lenham, which added so much to our knowledge 

 of the " Kentish Crag," when studied by Messrs. Prestwich and 

 Searles Wood (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xiv. p. 325, and p. 

 333). Mr. Harris also worked indefatigably in tracing the extent of 

 this fossiliferous ironstone in his immediate neighbourhood ; and he 

 had diggings made, at considerable expense, on the hill above 

 Charing to the depth of about 30 feet. Mr. Prestwich gives an 

 account of these in his paper above referred to. 



Thus, as one of the many quiet workers in rural districts, carefully 

 observing nature, and looking with knowledge on antiquities, fossils, 

 and all traces of the past, Mr. Harris took pleasure both in 

 collecting and in communicating everything of use and interest that 

 could be learnt within his field of observation. T. R. J. 



JOHN LECKENBY, ESQ., J. P., F.G.S. 



Born 1814. Died 1877. 

 It is with no ordinary feelings of regret that we record the loss of 

 an excellent Yorkshire geologist, whose death leaves a sad blank in 

 our circle of scientific friends. Mr. Leckenby was a native of 

 Eipon ; he came to reside at Scarborough upon his appointment to 

 the York City and County Bank in 1837, then recently established. 

 From that latter date the direction of his mind towards the cultiva- 



