Ixviii PEOCEEDIlSrGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [May 1 899, 



curatorship was a collection of bones, teeth, and other relics, which 

 have only lately been discovered in a cave or fissure at Uphill, near 

 "Weston-super-Mare. This cave was explored under Mr. Wilson's 

 superintendence, and bones of the cave-bear, the mammoth, hyaena, 

 elephant, rhinoceros, horse, hippopotamus, and a small, but interest- 

 ing, collection of worked flint-heads were found. These were in 

 process of arrangement at the time of his death, and the committee 

 were looking forward to their forming an interesting feature in 

 connexion with the forthcoming visit of the British Association.' 

 I am glad to add that the British Association made a grant for the 

 purpose of continuing this exploration. 



In 1888 Mr. Wilson received the Murchison Fund from the 

 €ouncil of this Society, in recognition of his work, at a time when 

 he had contributed four papers and a short note to our Journal, 

 and, partly in conjunction with others, ten papers to the Geological 

 Magazine. Since then we have had three more papers wholly or 

 partly from him, while four have been published in the Geological 

 Magazine. Besides these, he has contributed to the Proceedings of 

 the Bristol Naturalists' Club, etc. With Mr. Hudleston he prepared 

 a ' Catalogue of British Jurassic Gasteropoda,'^ and this joint work 

 was continued in a monograph on the British Liassic Gasteropoda 

 for the Palseontographical Society. 



Many geologists looked forward to meeting him at the Session 

 of the British Association in Bristol last year, and to having his help 

 not only as one of the secretaries of the Geological Section, but also 

 as one of the local guides. But this was not to be : he died, at the 

 comparatively early age of 49, on May 21st, 1898, after an illness 

 of three weeks. A fitting tribute was paid to his memory by 

 Mr. Hudleston, the President of the Geological Section, in publicly 

 calling attention to a portrait of him, exhibited in the meeting- 

 room, giving a short sketch of his career, and alluding to their 

 joint labours. In this short ceremony I had the privilege of taking 

 part, as your representative. I may conclude by quoting the words 

 of a Bristol working-man : ' We shall feel his loss severely for some 

 time. He lives in his written works, and the zeal with which he 

 inspired us in our scientific pursuits.' ^ 



It is perhaps singular that in the year's roll of loss there is not 

 the name of any Fellow who has ever served on the Council. 



1 London, 1892, pp. xxxiii & 147. 



2 The above notice is based chiefly on an account published in * The Bristol 

 Mirror & Times' of May 23rd, 1898, and on information supplied by 

 Dr. Henry Woodward. 



