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Formations of the Eastern Counties. No credit, no reward, no con- 

 sideration, even as the discoverer, was claimed by him, but he at once 

 freely gave the widest iDublicity to his discovery ; and the residt has 

 been that an enormous store of wealth has accrued alike to landlord 

 and tenant over a very large area of country, whilst up to the day of 

 his death no acknowledgment was ever made of his services to 

 the public weal. 



His sympathies were enlisted in every branch of science, and in 

 many educational efforts. He was one of the first Examiners in the 

 University of London, and was up to the last an efficient member of 

 its Council. He aided actively in the Society for the Diffusion of 

 Useful Knowledge, and in the working of the Eay Club and Pala3on- 

 tographical Society ; and when assistance was needed for the pub- 

 lication of a useful work, or the relief of the needy in his own pro- 

 fession, or among naturalists, the kindly heart of Professor Henslow 

 was never appealed to in vain. 



Joseph James Foerester, created, for his services in develop- 

 ing the resources of Portugal, Baron de Forrester in that country, 

 was a man of unusual vigour of intellect, who, in his capacity of a 

 vine-grower in the Alto Douro district, paid much attention to the 

 geological character of the subsoils. Several Avorks published by him 

 on the capabilities of Portugal and on the port-wine trade, and the 

 elaborate map of the river Douro, which he exhibited at the Universal 

 Exposition of Paris in 1855, attest the perseverance of his obser- 

 vations, and awakened a regret that, apart from his loss as an active 

 and useful citizen of the world, we should so soon have lost a pro- 

 mising Fellow of the Society. It was one of his great pleasures to 

 ascend and descend the Douro in his own boat, sketching and photo- 

 graphing the granite rocks, and the peculiarities of their junction 

 with the clay-slate ; and it was in one of these expeditions that ho 

 was unfortunately di'owned, at the age of 51, by the upsetting of his 

 boat in the rapids. 



Mr. "William Hutto>", of West Hartlepool, was remarkable as 

 one of the chief contributors to the geology and fossil botany of our 

 northern coal-fields. In 1830 he communicated to the Natural 

 History Society of Newcastle " Notes on the New lied Sandstone," 

 and in the next following years contributed to oiu? Society papers 

 ^' On the Stratified Basalt associated with the Carboniferous Forma- 

 tions of the North of England," '^ On Coal," and " On the Occurrence 

 of certain Minerals in Northumberland." 



James Mac Ad am was bom at Belfast in January 1801, and died 

 1st June, 18G1. His family belonged to the commercial class, and 

 he was himself actively engnged in business throughout his life. 

 From boyhood he had a taste for classics, for continental literature, 

 and for different departments of physical science. In early life 

 he attended some of the college classes in the Boyal Academical 

 Institution of Belfast, and after a lapse of some years, amid the 



