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Melville Attwood was born ab Prescott Hall, Old Swinford 

 (Worcestershire) on July 31st, 1812. 



When quite a young man he went to the gold- and diamond-fields 

 of Brazil for some years, returning to England in 1839, and then 

 worked the Old Eeton Copper Mine, in Derbyshire. 



The health of his wife, a sister of Edward and David Forbes, 

 led him to leave England in 1852, when he went to California and 

 became manager of the Agua Fria Gold-quartz Company; and for the 

 rest of his life he applied his knowledge to mining and metallurgical 

 work, devoting his spare time to microscopical investigations and 

 making a valuable collection of minerals and rock-sections. 



He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1876, and in the 

 following year he was one of nine men who organized the California 

 State Geological Society. He was also a member of the California 

 Academy of Sciences and of the San Francisco Microscopical Society, 

 and he contributed many papers to the Transactions of those 

 Societies. 



He died at Berkeley, near San Francisco, on April 23rd, 1898.^ 



DuGALD Bell, who was born in the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire 

 in 1827, was elected a Fellow only in 1892. He passed his child- 

 hood and school-life in the Yale of Leven, and at a comparatively 

 early age began work in the ofSce of the Dalmonach Printworks 

 there, being transferred to the town-office, in Glasgow, after some 

 years. He subsequently became confidential clerk to Mr. J. jN". 

 Fleming, and, on the suspension of business by his employer, ceased 

 work for. a time, and then became cashier to Messrs. L. & W. 

 Cami^bell & Co., a post which he held until the failure of his health 

 in 1896. 



He joined the Geological Societj of Glasgow in 1860, and his first 

 printed paper was read 10 years afterwards. It was on Glacial 

 Oeology and in favour of Boulder Clay having originated from laud- 

 ice, but allowing a period of depression, in which latter he ceased 

 to believe later on. From this time onward he took a leading part 

 in Glacial geology, both by papers and in discussions before the 

 •Glasgow Geological Society, and he published a book, ' Among the 

 Eocks round Glasgow,' which was based on excursions made by 

 members of that Society. He was one of the most strenuous 

 supporters of the land-ice theory. 



^ The above notice has been condensed from a published obituary by Mr. G. 

 Attwood in Geol. Mag. 1898, pp. 335-336, and from a MS. obituary kindly sent 

 by Mr. H. G. Hanks, of San Francisco. 



