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people who have inhabited this country — from that of the age 

 which preceded and followed it. His persistency as a collector, 

 moreover, managed to secure for the nation the best collection that 

 exists of the remains of this period — a period which lies on the 

 borderland between the prehistoric and historic periods in Britain, 

 and concerning which antiquarian relics are our only means of 

 knowledge. Sir A. Franks was elected a Fellow of the Geological 

 Society in the year 1867. 



Sir Hexey Ayeks, G.C.M.G., died in Adelaide on June 11th, 

 1897, aged 76. He was for 36 years member for Adelaide in the 

 South Australian Parliament, was seven times Premier, and eleven 

 times a Cabinet Minister. For 12 years he was President of the 

 Legislative Council. Sir Henry Ayers was born in England in 

 1821, and emigrated to South Australia at the age of 19. He 

 engaged in legal pursuits until 1845, when he became secretary of 

 the Burra Burra Mines. He became a member of the Legis- 

 lative Council in 1857, was created a K.C.M.G. in 1872, and 

 G.C.M.G. in 1894. He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 

 1870. 



Samuel Haekade^j was elected a FeUow of the Society in 1861. 

 He was the father of Miss Beatrice Harraden, the well-known 

 novelist, and lived at 5, Cannons Place, Hampstead. He was a 

 man of considerable scientific, literary, and musical tastes. He 

 died on July 17th, 1897. 



Lieut. -Col. J. P. Campbell, late Hampshire Artillery Militia, 

 died on June 23rd, 1897. He was elected a FeUow of this Society 

 in 1877. 



Samitel Allpoet was elected a Fellow of this Society in the year 

 1869. As no one is so competent as Prof. Bonney to give an 

 account of the life-work of this eminent geologist, I here reproduce 

 the biography contributed by him to the ' Geological Magazine ' for 

 September 1897 : — 



' By the death of Mr. Samuel Allport we have lost one of the 

 pioneers in microscopic petrology. He was bom at Birmingham 

 on January 23rd, 1816, being descended from an old Staff"ordshire 

 family, and was educated at King Edward's School in that town. 

 For some years he was in the office of Pabone Brothers, and then 

 went to Bahia in South America as business manager for another 



