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He also took part in the meetings of the British Association as 

 far as he could, and bore the chief share in the work of the 

 Committee for the Investigation of the High-level Shell-bearing 

 Deposits of Kin tyre, etc., of vt^hich he was secretary. 



He wrote several papers and notes that have appeared in the 

 Geological Magazine of late years, and a paper for our Society 

 in 1895. 



Towards the end of 1896 he was compelled to give up work ; his^ 

 illness increased, and he became physically helpless for six months 

 before his death on January 15th, 1898, although he retained his 

 mental faculties until a few days before the end.^ 



John Alleyne Boswoeth was a mining-engineer, and carried out 

 several borings in Leicestershire and Shropshire, as well as the first 

 part of the boring for the Sub-Weald en Exploration Committee. 

 He was elected a Eellow of this Society in 1870, and died on July 

 30th, 1897, from an accident which happened two days before :; 

 when he was watching some men in a brick-pit, he lost his footing, 

 and fell a distance of 20 feet. 



His death appears to have escaped notice last year, 



I have now the sad duty of announcing the decease of one with 

 whom I had been on terms of intimate friendship for many years, 

 and whose kindness and genial companionship I shall ever remember. 



William Colchester was born on July 21st, 1813, at Sutton, near 

 Woodbridge, and much of his life was spent in Suifolk or in the 

 bordering part of Essex, Eor a great many years he lived in or near 

 Ipswich, and in his later years at Burwell, in Cambridgeshire. 



He was educated at University College, London, where he was- 

 the fellow-student of Prestwich, and the two were life-long friends. 

 Intending to follow the profession of an architect, he travelled much 

 in Italy; but he turned to commercial pursuits, which in two 

 cases were of a kind in which geology is concerned. 



He engaged in the raising of cement-stone from the London Clay 

 of the coast near Harwich, for the manufacture of Roman cement,, 

 until that work was stopped, on account, I believe, of the damage 

 resulting to the land. I am informed that the vessels used, and 

 now turned into shrimpers, are still known as ' Colchester's fleet.' 

 He also became the pioneer in the working of our various deposits 

 of phosphate of lime, especially from the Crag of Suffolk and from 

 the base of the Chalk in Cambridgeshire. The Suffolk industry is 



^ The above notice has been chiefly taken from a MS. obituary by Mr, J. B*. 

 Murdoch, which, I am informed, will be published in Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, 



