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' The Properties & Motion of Fluids ' — recording the results of 

 much original observation and reserach. He was elected a Fellow 

 of the Geological Society in 18S4. Mr. Stanley was a man of great 

 generosity and public spirit ; he presented to South Norwood a 

 public hall and art gallery, and founded and endowed the Stanley 

 Technical Trade Schools, in which a promising attempt is made to 

 combine a general education with technical training. He died on 

 August 14th, 1909. 



James Parsons, B.Sc. (1876-1908). — James Parsons, the son of 

 James St. John Gage Parsons, F.R.C.S., was born at Bristol on 

 June 24th, 1876. He was taught science first at University 

 College, Bristol, and afterwards at University College, London, 

 where he acquired a knowledge of geology from Prof. Bonney. In 

 1903 he was appointed Assistant Director of the Mineralogical 

 Survey of Ceylon, and in 1908 he succeeded the Director, Dr. A. K. 

 Coomaraswamy, but with the title of Principal Mining Surveyor. 



He was electeda Fellow of this Society in 1900; in the same 

 year he contributed to the Geological Magazine a paper on ' The 

 Development of Brown Mica from Augite'; a second paper on 

 'Quartz in Ceylon' was published in ' Spolia Zeylanica' in 1908. 



At Christmas time in 1908 he left Colombo to spend his holidays 

 at Nuwara Eliya, and on December 29th started out for a walk, 

 leaving word that he should return for lunch; nothing more was 

 heard of him, until, after 92 days' search, his remains were found 

 by a native tracker in the surrounding jungle, only a mile from the 

 house. 



George Frederick Samuel Robinson, first Marquis of Ripon, 

 second Earl of Ripon, K.G., D.C.L. Oxon, F.R.S. (1827-1909).— 

 The Marquis of Ripon, though better known as a statesman than as 

 a geologist, was an earnest student of science and took a keen 

 interest in geology. He was elected a Fellow of the Society in 

 1867. He was also a member of the Yorkshire Geological Society 

 and for many years its President. 



Edmond Kelly, B.A. Cambridge, Chevalier de la Legion 

 d'Honneur (1851-1909). — Edmond Kelly, a citizen of the United 

 States of America, was born in 1851. After graduating in Columbia 

 College, New York, he came to England and entered at St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, where he studied natural science, and especially 

 geology, under the tutorship of Prof. Bonney. After obtaiuing his 



