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of the Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society, and communi- 

 cated to it in 1906 a paper on excavations in the Castle Mound. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1900, and 

 died on November 1st, 1915, aged 67. 



Henry Rope, Avho was born on February 15th, 1839, and died 

 on March 2nd, 1935, became a Fellow of the Society in 1890. 

 He was a distinguished waterworks engineer, and constructed 

 important works for the water-supply of many English towns. 

 In 1905 he visited and reported on the water-supply of British 

 East Africa. 



Richard Kerr, who was elected a Fellow of the Society in 

 1882, was engaged for many years in educational work at 

 Folkestone, and subsequently became well known as a popular 

 exponent of science. He died at Mitcham (Surrey) on May 21st, 

 1915. 



William Hutton Williams, who was born at Clifton, Bristol, 

 in 1875, and became a Fellow of the Society in 1905, was a 

 mining engineer who had done much work in Korea, Southern 

 Manchuria, and India. He held a commission as Captain in the 

 East Surrey Regiment, and was killed in action in France in May 

 1915. 



I have also to record the death on December 17th, 1915, of 

 William Rupert Jones, who was Assistant in the Geological 

 Society's Library from 1872 until 1913. He Avas born in 1855, 

 the eldest son of Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., and inherited his 

 father's retentive memory, which enabled him to give most valuable 

 help to the Fellows using the Library. From its beginning until 

 1912 he prepared the slips for the Society's annual Record of 

 Geological Literature. 



