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in relation to Geological History' (1886), and 'The Evolution of 

 Earth Structure, with a Theory of Geomorphic Changes ' (1903). 



Mr. Reade was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1872, and 

 in 1896 he received the Murchison Medal in recognition of his 

 work on the Origin of Mountain Ranges. He was several times 

 President of the Liverpool Geological Society, namely, from 1875 to 

 1-77, from 1884 to 1886, and from 1895 to 1897. Tn one of his 

 earliest papers communicated to that Society he predicted that the 

 tunnel then being constructed under the Mersey would encounter the 

 Boulder Clay which filled the ancient river-channel, a prediction 

 which was fulfilled, to the great inconvenience of the engineers. 



Mr. Reade owed little to the gifts of fortune, beyond a powerful 

 intellect and indomitable energy ; these he strenuously excercised, 

 to the great benefit of his fellow-townsmen and with no small 

 advantage to our science. He enjoyed good health up to a few 

 years before his death, which occurred on May 26th, 1909. 



John Joseph Frederick Whiteaves, LL.D. (McGill), F.R.S. 

 Canada (1835-1909). — Dr. Whiteaves was born at Oxford on 

 December 26th, 1835 ; and resided in his native city until 1861. 

 At the age of 21 he commenced his career as a systematic zoologist 

 by making a collection of the land and freshwater shells of the 

 surrounding district ; from these he passed to the Jurassic fossils, 

 of which he acquired a large collection, containing many new species. 

 At about this time (1858 to 1860) fossil-collecting was more 

 zealously pursued at Oxford that it has been since, and included 

 among its votaries the present Master of Pembroke (Bishop 

 Mitchinson), the Rev. H. H. Wood, and Mr. James Parker. 



In 1863 Dr. Whiteaves was appointed Curator of the Museum 

 and Recording Secretary of the Xatural History Society of Montreal 5 

 he held this post until 1876, when he succeeded E. Billings as 

 Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of Canada; later on he 

 was made one of the Assistant Directors. In the New World he 

 found a wide scope for his activity; he described the land and 

 freshwater shells of the Province of Quebec, the Lower Silurian 

 fossils of the Island of Montreal and its vicinity, and the marine 

 Invertebrates of Eastern Canada; he added greatly to our know- 

 ledge of the palaeontology of the whole of Canada, and conducted 

 dredging expeditions in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence which 

 revealed the existence in a still living state of the Leda-clay fauna, 

 previously supposed to be extinct. 



Dr. Whiteaves was one of the original Fellows of the Roval 



