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He visited the United States in 1889, and two years later left the 

 Survey to go there as a mining-engineer. He was officially employed 

 at the Chicago Exhibition, after the close of which he returned to 

 this country. He then joined Dr. Moloney's expedition to Rhodesia, 

 and in 1898 again went to Africa, continuing his work of exploration 

 and penetrating to a point 300 miles west of Lake jSTyasa. His 

 Fellowship of this Society dates from the same year. 



jS"otwithstanding the hardships that he had endured, he was 

 tempted again to go to Africa, in the spring of 1898, as leader of an 

 expedition to Ashanti ; but, before he could leave the coast, he was 

 stricken down by fever and died at Elmina on April 28th, at the 

 early age of 32. 



He contributed several papers on petrology and mineralogy to 

 the Transactions of the Eoyal Dublin Society and to the Geological 



William Charles Lucy, born on June 20th, 1822, at Stratford- 

 on-Avon, was the only son of Charles Lucy, a Justice of the Peace 

 and sometime Mayor of that Borough. In 1850 his father started 

 him as a corn-merchant at Gloucester, in which business he 

 laboured with conspicuous ability and uprightness until his retire- 

 ment in 1894. During this long period his energies were largely 

 ■devoted to the social, commercial, and educational welfare of 

 Gloucester and the neighbourhood, as a Magistrate, and as Chairman, 

 Director, or member of various Companies and local Committees. 

 jN'o resident was more highly esteemed, none more constantly appealed 

 to for help and for advice. 



Being associated during his early years with a zealous geologist, 

 the late John Jones, of Gloucester, Lucy became an ardent disciple 

 of his, and joined the Cotteswold ^Naturalists' Club in 1859. 

 Three years later he succeeded Jones as Secretary, and finally he 

 became President from 1887 to 1893. He was elected a Fellow of 

 our own Society in 1861. To the Proceedings of the Cotteswold 

 Club he contributed many papers, the most important being on 

 ' The Gravels of the Severn, Avon, & Evenlode, & their Exten- 

 sion over the Cotteswold Hills ' (vol. v, p. 71) ; supplemented by 

 another, ' On the Extension of the Northern Drift & Boulder 

 Clay over the Cotteswold Eange ' (vol. vii, p. 50). Other papers 

 related to the Submerged Forest near Sharpness ; the Lias of 

 Fretherne ; well-borings at Gloucester and Birdlip ; the Lias of 



^ This notice has been compiled from an obituary published in the Magazine 

 of his old school, and from information kindly furnished by Mr. F. W. Eudler. 



