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PROCEEDING'S OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [vol. lxxii, 



Sir Sandpord Fleming, who was born at Kirkcaldy ( Fife) in 

 1827, and died at Halifax (Nova Scotia) on July 22nd, 1915, 

 became a Fellow of the Society in 1877. During the preliminary 

 surveys and the early years of its construction, he was Engineer- 

 in-Chief of the Canadian Pacific Railway. He was also associated 

 with other railway enterprises in Canada ; and his important 

 public work was recognized by the confei'ment on him of the 

 Knight Commandership of the Order of St. Michael & St. George 

 in 1897. His interests were many and varied, and geological 

 science, both theoretical and practical, was among them. 



William Grylls Adams, born on February 16th, 1836, was 

 elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1865. He was 

 a distinguished mathematician and physicist, and Professor of 

 Natural Philosophy & Astronomy at King's College. London, 

 from 1865 to 1906. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 in 1872, and an account of his work is published in the Proc. 

 Roy. Soc. ser. A, vol. xci (1915) pp. lxiii, lxiv. He died in April 

 1915. 



Richard Assheton was a distinguished vertebrate embryo- 

 logist, interested in all branches of biological and geological science. 

 Born at Downham Hall (Lancashire) on December 23rd, 1863, he 

 died at Grantchester, Cambridge, on October 21th, 1915. He 

 had been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1886, and 

 of the Royal Society in 1914. 



Herbert Stanley Bion, avIio was elected a Fellow of this 

 Society in 1911, died on June 6th, 1915, at the early age of 27. 

 He was born in India, and educated at University College, London, 

 graduating as B.Sc. at London University. He joined the Geo- 

 logical Survey of India as Assistant-Superintendent in 1911, and 

 was engaged chiefly in Burma and Kashmir. 



Fortescue William Millett, who was born in 1833, and died 

 on February 8th, 1915, became a Fellow of the Geological Society 

 in 1900. He was a well-known authority on the Foraminifera, and 

 contributed an account of those found in the St. Erth Clay to the 

 Palseontographical Society's Monograph of the Foraminifera of 

 the Crag. 



