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able series of specimens of extinct Mammalia from that locality and 

 other parts of Essex, especially from Clacton. He liberally supplied 

 the Oxford and other Museums with Crag fossils, drawn from his 

 own collections, and maintained to the last a strong and intelligent 

 interest in our pursuits. As a final proof of his good will, he has 

 left us a legacy of £300, to be employed without restraint in the 

 advancement of his favourite science. Died 28th of November, 1859, 

 in his eightieth year. 



Mr. Joseph Carne was a much-honoured member of the Geolo- 

 gical Society of Cornwall, to whose Transactions he communicated 

 several memoirs on the tin- and silver-veins, granite rocks,, and 

 elvan-courses of the rich mineral district adjoining Penzance, the 

 place of his residence. Died October 11, 1858, aged 77. 



Earl Cathcart, better known to English and Scottish geologists 

 under his earlier title of Lord Greenock, was remarkably well 

 acquainted with the geology of several parts of Scotland, especially 

 the Coal and Trap districts in the valley of the Clyde and Forth. 

 He communicated memoirs on these subjects to the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh and the British Association. I was personally indebted 

 to him and Mr. Milne, in 1834, for a valuable contribution to the 

 first edition of my Map of the Geology of the British Isles. In after 

 years Earl Cathcart collected largely from the Wealden deposits, 

 and amassed a valuable collection of chalk-sponges from the shingle 

 of Hastings. Died 1858, aged 76. 



J. G. Croker, M.D., &e. Dr. Croker communicated a notice of the 

 geology of the vicinity of Bovey Tracey, the place of his residence 

 (Geol. Soc. 1856). 



Sir I. L. Goldsmid, Bart., F.R.S., claims the grateful recollection 

 of the Society on account of his liberal endowment of the Chair of 

 Geology in University College, and other acts worthy of a generous 

 mind. Died April 27, 1859, aged 81. 



Thomas Horsfield, M.A., M.D., F.E.S. This eminent naturalist 

 held for some years the oifice of Keeper of the Museum of the East 

 India Company. His contributions to Entomology and other branches 

 of Zoology are well known. He has left on record one proof of the 

 interest he felt in studies familiar to us, in a mineralogical descrip- 

 tion of the Island of Banka (Sill. Am. I. ser. 2. vii. 86). Died July 

 24, 1859, aged 86. 



Mr. William Kennett Lofttjs imbibed under Professor Sedgwick a 

 sound knowledge of geology, and always manifested a strong attach- 

 ment to it, even when placed in circumstances which enabled him 

 to render the most conspicuous services to geographical and historical 

 researches. It was indeed this proved devotion to geology which led 

 to his appointment on the Turco-Persian Commission; and his re- 



