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in 1884, and received an award from the Wollaston Fund in 1892. 

 An excellent portrait of him appropriately appears as the frontispiece 

 of the first edition of Prof. J. C. Branner's ' Geologia Elemental-,' 

 published at Rio de Janeiro in 1907. 



Henry Hyatt Howell was born on July 13th, 1834, and 

 began his lifelong career on the Geological Survey of Great Britain 

 in the autumn of 1850. As Assistant- Geologist, his first task was 

 to accompany Beete Jukes in mapping the South Staffordshire 

 coalfield ; and for a few subsequent years he was occupied in the 

 survey of the Midland counties. His most important memoir 

 referred to the Warwickshire coalfield (1859). In 1855 Howell 

 was transferred to Scotland, and devoted himself chiefly to the 

 mapping of the Mid- and East-Lothian and Fifeshire coalfields. 

 In 1857 he was promoted to the rank of Geologist, and he co- 

 operated with (Sir) Archibald Geikie in producing their well-known 

 volume on ' The Geology of the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh,' 

 published in 1861. His work in association with Geikie and John 

 Young laid the foundation of our present knowledge of the 

 Carboniferous succession in Southern Scotland. In 1861 Howell 

 returned to England, where he surveyed Jurassic areas in 

 Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, and Huntingdonshire. He then 

 supervised the staff engaged in the survey of the North-Eastern 

 counties, and was promoted to the rank of District Geologist in 

 1872. Ten years later he succeeded (Sir) Archibald Geikie as 

 Director for Scotland, and eventually in 1888 became Director for 

 Great Britain. He retired in 1899, after nearly half a century of 

 disinterested public service, highly esteemed by all his colleagues. 

 He had been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1853. 



An account of the official work of Mr. Howell, with a portrait, 

 appears in the 'Geological Magazine,' dec. 1, vol. iv (1899) 

 pp. 133-37 & pi. xxi. He died in June 1915. 



William Anderson, who was born at Edinburgh in February 

 1860, and died at Sydney (New South Wales) on May 30th, 1915, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1899. After 

 studying in the University of Edinburgh, he joined the Geological 

 Survey of New South Wales in 1886, and wrote many valuable 

 reports on the geology and mineral resources of that State, besides 

 \mdertakmg a series of researches on water-supply. In 1893 he 

 retired from the New South Wales Survey, and, after a few years' 



