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at the Local Government Board in 1879, a post which he retained 

 until 1892, when he became Assistant Medical Officer. In 1911 

 he retired from official life. Parsons manifested an interest in 

 geology from an early age, and was elected to the Geological 

 Society in 1877. Though he never contributed a paper to this 

 Society, he rendered valuable assistance to the Geological Survey 

 by supplying records of wells in all districts with which he was 

 connected, and was part-author of the Memoirs on the Water- 

 Supplies of Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Sussex (Supplement), and Kent. 

 He served on several interdepartmental Committees, and among 

 them on one appointed to enquire into the work of the Geological 

 Survey. 



He was the President of the Epidemiological Society, and was 

 author of many reports on medical and sanitary subjects. 



Dr. Parsons died on October 29th, 1913. 



James Logan Lobley was born in 1833, and was elected a Fellow 

 of the Geological Society in 1865. He was author of a small work 

 on Mount Vesuvius in 1868, and brought out an enlarged volume 

 under the same title in 1889. He contributed but little to the 

 Journal of this Society, but wrote more frequently in the Geological 

 Magazine. His main energies, however, were devoted to the 

 Geologists' Association, in which he held office for fourteen years. 

 In his later } r ears he was engaged, under the auspices of the 

 Poyal Geographical Society, in teaching the elements of geo- 

 logy to explorers. In June 1913 he was awarded a Civil List 

 Pension, but on the 27th of that month he died, only a few days 

 before the announcement was to reach him. 



Sir James Lamoistt was best known to geologists of a former 

 generation, in connexion with his work in the Arctic regions. 

 Undertaken primarily for purposes of sport, his voyages resulted in 

 his publishing in 1871 and 1876 contributions of much value 

 to the little that was then known of Spitsbergen and Novaya 

 Zemlya. After completing his education at Rugby and the Edin- 

 burgh Military Academy, he served for two }'ears in the Army. 

 and for three years he represented Buteshire in Parliament. He 

 was elected into our Society in 1859. He died on July 29th. 

 11)13, at the age of 85. 



