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now a thing of the past, and that of Cambridgeshire neaiij' so ; 

 indeed in the latter county there is but one man raising coprolites, 

 and that is Mr. Edward Colchester, the eldest surviving son of my 

 old friend. 



He was elected a Pellow of this Society in 1857, and in him we 

 lose one of the few links between the geologists of what we may 

 term the ' earlier Lyellian age ' and those of the present. A great 

 reader, he was not an author, though one of the best letter-writers 

 that I have known ; but he helped greatly in furnishing texts 

 for others to write on, by the careful collection of specimens from 

 the works with which he was connected, and to him we owe the 

 fossil, known at first as the Macacus eoccenus, and the Didelphis that 

 bears his name. Many of his best specimens he gave to the fine 

 museum at Ipswich, to which he was one of the original subscribers, 

 when it depended on subscriptions. Other collections, too, have 

 benefited by his generosity, and indeed he was always ready to 

 help geologists by all means in his power. 



In later life he busied himself in collecting flint-implements in 

 his neighbourhood, and obtained a goodly number of these, many of 

 which he gave to the British Museum. 



I had the pleasure of spendiug last Eastertide under his hospitable 

 roof, and of finding him in full vigour of mind, and, considering 

 his years, in good bodily health. I looked forward, therefore, to 

 another visit ; but a long and painful illness came on last autumn, 

 and he died on jNTovember 15th, leaving behind him four sons and 

 four daughters, all of whom I count among my personal friends.^ 



Sir John Eowler, Bart., K.C.M.G., Past President of the Institu- 

 tion of Civil Engineers, was born near Shefiield in 1817, and was 

 elected a Eellow of this Society in 1845, being therefore among 

 our oldest Fellows. He was one of our great railway-engineers, 

 and our Eellows are greatly indebted to him for many facilities in 

 travelling to and from the Society's house, for among his many 

 works are the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways. 



He died on November 20th, 1898, after a long illness. A full 

 account of his life appeared in the ' Times ' two days later, and 

 probably a more detailed account will soon be published by the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers. 



Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Howley Goodenotj&h, commanding the 

 troops in South Africa, was born in 1833, and was elected a Eellow 



1 [Since this notice was written, an obituary has appeared in Geol. Mag. 

 pp. 13(3-138.1 



