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which were at the command of anyone who might ask his 

 help.' 



Erooe:b Cunlifpe, J.P., died at St. Asaph, North Wales, on 

 February 27th, 1897, in his 82nd year. He had foj-merly been in 

 the Madras Civil Service. Mr. Brooke CunlifFe was elected into the 

 Society in 1845, and had therefore been a Fellow for over 50 years. 



Thomas White Collaed, who was one of the oldest Fellows of 

 the Society, having been elected in the year 1836, died in February 

 1897. He had resided for many years at Hernc Bay, Kent. 



The Eev. J. E. Cross, M.A.,F.E.A.S., Prebendary of Lincoln, and 

 brother of Viscount Cross, died at Scarborough on February 28th, 

 1897. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and was 

 appointed to the curacy of Bolton-le-Moors in 1846. Three years 

 later he became curate of Appleby, near Brigg, in Lincolnshire, and 

 he was presented to the vicarage in 1856. In this quiet village 

 he lived and laboured for 35 years, retiring in 1891 to Grange- 

 over- Sands. 



To geologists Mr. Cross is known as the author of an excellent 

 paper on ' The Geology of North-west Lincolnshire ' (Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxi, 1875, pp. 115-130. Appendix by R. 

 Etheridge). In this work he described, for the first time in detail, 

 the Jurassic formations from the Lower Lias to the Cornbrash, 

 in the area bordering the southern shore of the Humber between 

 the rivers Trent and Ancholme. It was, as he remarked, ' a corner 

 of the land unknown to fame' until the discovery of the valuable 

 iron-ore in the Lower Lias at Frodingham. Long and diligently 

 had Mr. Cross worked, as shown by his careful record of facts and 

 the numerous fossils which he had collected. Among these, several 

 new species of mollusca were described by Mr. Etheridge. Mr. Cross 

 was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1867. He was born in 1821, 

 and married in 1854 Elizabeth, daughter of the late Admiral Sir 

 Phipps Hornby, 



Prof. Henrt Deummond, LL.D., F.E.S.E., was a son of Mr. Henry 

 Drummond, J. P., of Stirling. He was born in 1851, and received his 

 education first at Edinburgh University, afterwards at Tiibingen. 

 He became a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, and, after a 

 short stay in a mission-station at Malta, was appointed in 1877 

 Lecturer in Science at the Free Church College in Glasgow, being 



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