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(1898), and 'Mountains, their Origin, Growth, & Decay' (1913). 

 In the midst of all these new interests he continued to the end 

 to pursue his enquiries into glacial geology, and an admirable 

 brief summaiy of his latest conclusions was given in his Munro 

 Lectures in 1913, published in book-form as ' The Antiquity of Man 

 in Europe ' in the following year. He retired from his Professor- 

 ship in June, 1914. 



Prof. Geikie was an ideal teacher, both in the class-room and in 

 the field, and gained from his numerous students the same deep 

 esteem as that in which he was held by all who had the privilege 

 of his friendship. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological 

 Society in 1873, but had already contributed his first geological 

 paper on the metamorphic Lower Silurian rocks of Carrick (Ayr- 

 shire) to the Quarterly Journal in 18G6. Our Murchison Medal 

 was awarded to him in 1889, and he received the Brisbane Medal 

 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in the same year. He was 

 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1875, and was 

 President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh at the time of his 

 death. A list of his writings and a portrait appear in the ' Geo- 

 logical Magazine,' dec. 5, vol. x (1913) pp. 241-48 & pi. ix. 



Richard Lydekker, who was born in 1849 and died, on 

 April 16th, 1915, was a Fellow of the Geological Society from 

 1883 to 1914, served on the Council, and became a Vice-President 

 in 1894-97. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he graduated 

 in 1871, taking the second place in the first class of the Natural 

 Science Tripos. In 1874 he Avas appointed to the Geological 

 Survey of India, and proceeded to the exploration of the mountains 

 of Kashmir, on which he Wrote an important geological memoir. 

 While there, his opportunities for sport gradually led him to take 

 a special interest in the mammals and birds of India, and on 

 returning to Calcutta he began to study the Indian Tertiary 

 vertebrate fossils in the Survey collection. Planning a series 

 of memoirs on these fossils for the ' Palseontologia Indica,' he 

 soon felt the necessity of ample materials for comparison. He 

 accordingly retired from the Indian service, returned to England 

 in 1882, and had the Calcutta collection sent in instalments to 

 the British Museum, where he completed his work. Between 1885 

 and 1887 he prepared a Catalogue of the Fossil Mammals in the 

 British Museum, in five parts. This was followed in 1888-90 by 

 a similar Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia & Amphibia, in four 



