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Southerndown, Dunraven, and Bridgend ; and the Inferior Oolite 

 of Crickley. He also contributed in 1887 an essay on the origin 

 of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Club, with an epitome of its 

 Proceedings. 



Leaving Gloucester in 1894, Mr. Lucy lived for about a year at 

 Tunbridge Wells, and then settled in London, where he died on 

 May 11th, 1898. He was buried near the scene of his geological 

 labours, in Harescombe Churchyard, on the Cotteswold Hills.^ 



The greatest loss that we have sustained in this country since the 

 last Anniversary Meeting has come quite lately and unexpectedly. 

 Palaeontology and stratigraphy both suffer from the death, in the 

 55th year of his age, of Heney Alleyne j^icholsojSt, who had been 

 a Fellow of this Society since 1867, and who received the Lyell Pund 

 in 1879 and the Lyell Medal in 1888. He had been in indifferent 

 health for some time, but no serious results were expected. On 

 January 14th, 1899, however, he had a severe breakdown through 

 internal haemorrhage, and from this he did not rally, dying five 

 days later. 



He was born at Penrith (Cumberland) on September 11th, 1844, 

 and was the son of Dr. J. Nicholson, a distinguished Biblical scholar.^ 

 It is pleasing to note that two of his own sons have had a dis- 

 tinguished career at Cambridge. 



He was educated at Appleby Grammar-school and then at the 

 Universities of Gottingen and Edinburgh, in both of which he gained 

 high honours, taking the degrees of Ph.D. at the former, and of 

 M.D. and D.Sc. at the latter, besides gaining a gold medal for hi& 

 thesis on the Geology of Cumberland and Westmoreland, the 

 Baxter Scholarship in Natural Science, and the Ettles Medical 

 Scholarship. 



When only 25 years of age he was appointed lecturer on Natural 

 History in the Edinburgh Extra-Academical School of Medicine. 

 Then, from 1871 to 1874, he was Professor of Natural History in 

 the University of Toronto, Canada. Eeturning to this country 

 in 1874, he held the chair of Biology in the University of Durham 

 (College of Physical Science) for two years. In 1875 he was 

 offered and accepted the Professorship of Natural History in 

 the University of St. Andrews, which he held until 1882, and 

 in that year he was appointed to the corresponding chair 

 in the University of Aberdeen, which he held until his death. 



^ For this notice I am indebted to. Mr, H. B. Woodward. 



