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Andrew Dunlop. who graduated as M.D. at Edinburgh Uni- 

 versity in 1863, resided for 47 years in Jersey, and devoted much 

 of his leisure to the study of the geology of that island. He 

 contributed papers to the Quarterly Journal of the Geological 

 Society on the Jersey Brick-clay and on Jersey Raised Beaches 

 in 1889 and 1893 respectively ; and so recently as November 

 1914 he communicated to the Society another paper on a raised 

 beach on the southern coast of Jersey. He became a Fellow of 

 the Society in 1874, and died at the age of 73 on December 30th, 

 1915. 



George Henry Hollingworth was an active member of the 

 Manchester Geological Society, of which he was Treasurer for 

 many years and President in 1903-1904. He was especially 

 interested in the geology of coal-mining, but he also studied other 

 geological questions in Lancashire, and in 1881 he contributed to 

 the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society a description of a 

 peat-bed interstratified with Boulder-drift at Oldham. He was 

 elected a Fellow in 1879, and died in April 1915. 



Benjamin Holgate, who was born at Leeds in 1838, became 

 a FelloAV of the Geological Societ}^ in 1877. He devoted the 

 leisure of his long life to a study of the geology and natural 

 history of the district round Leeds, and made several contributions 

 to the Transactions of the Leeds Geological Association. A 

 portrait and a list of his writings are published in ' The Naturalist' 

 for April 1915 (pp. 145, 146). 



William Simpson was an active member of the Yorkshire 

 Geological Societ}'- and the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. He 

 was especially interested in glacial geolog}^ but also published 

 notes on borings in the Millstone Grit at Halifax, where he 

 resided until 1903. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological 

 Society in 1893, and died at Catteral Hall, near Settle, in 

 March 1915, aged 56. 



John Turner Hotblack resided at Norwich, and for a long 

 period took an active part in the public life of the city. He was 

 a Member of the Museum Committee, and a valued supporter of 

 the local scientific societies. In 1899-1900 he was President 



