Obituary — The Rev. W. Bramvhite Clarke. 379 



Can you, or can any of your readers give me some more information 

 on tbis subject ? Edw. Maule Cole. 



Wetwang Vicarage, York. 



P.S. — Can you recommend to me any notices on " Eed Cbalk " in 

 England?— E. M. C. 



The Eev. E. M. Cole will obtain the information he seeks, by 

 consulting the following papers, which are picked out of a list still 

 in course of formation. 



Blake, Eev. J. F.— Proceed. Geol. Assoc, vol. v. p. 232, etc. 

 • Judd, J. W. — Quart. Joirrn. Geol. See. vol. xxiii. p. 227. 



Phillips, Prof. J. Geol. of Yorkshire, 3rd edit. p. 75. 



Seeley, Prof. H. G. — Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. 3rd series, vol. vii. p. 233, 

 1861 ; Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xx. p. 327. 



Taylor, Richard.— Phil. Mag. 1823, vol. 61, p. 81. 



"Wiltshire, Rev. T. — Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc vol. xxv. p. 185. 



For Analysis of Eed Chalk see — 



Church, A, H.— Chemical News, vol. 31, p. 199; or Geol. Mag. Vol. II. p. 331. 



B. B. W. 



OBITTJ-A-K,:^. 



THE REV. WILLIAM BRANWHITE CLARKE, 



M.A., F.R.S., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., ETC. 



Born 2 June, 1798. Died 17 June, 1878. 



We regret to record the death of another veteran geologist, the 

 " Father of Australian Geology," the Eev. W. B. Clarke, which took 

 place at his residence near Sydney, in the eighty-first year of his 

 age. Mr. Clarke was born at East Bergholt, Suffolk, on the 2nd 

 June, 1798, and was partly educated at Dedham Grammar School. 

 He entered Cambridge in 1817, becoming a member of Jesus 

 College, took his B.A. in January, 1821, and became M.A. and 

 Member of Senate in 1824. 



From 1821 to 1824 he acted in his clerical capacity at Eamsholt 

 and other places, and during this period made fifteen distinct geolo- 

 gical and other excursions on the Continent, in addition to those 

 prosecuted by him in this country. During the years 1830-31 Mr. 

 Clarke was present at many of the scenes of the Belgian War of 

 Independence, and the last siege of Antwerp. His clerical duties 

 were continued up to the year 1839, when he left for New South 

 Wales, with the object of examining the physical structure of the 

 country, and regaining health lost during a severe illness. From 

 the time of his arrival till 1844, Mr. Clarke was in clerical charge 

 of the country from Paramatta to the Hawkesbury Eiver, and for a 

 portion of the time conducted the King's School. In that year he 

 undertook the charge of Campbelltown, but in 1847 he became 

 minister of Willoughby, which he held till 1870, then retiring, after 

 nearly fifteen years' service in the church, with a testimonial from his 

 parishioners, expressive of their sympathy and respect. 



